Projects & Infrastructure
Mixta Africa CFO on Affordable Housing Initiative, High Cost of Funding and Advice for Borrowers
With pressure on high-yield assets and non-investment grade credit across EMs, Mixta Africa, an African property developer and fast-rising player in the continent’s real-estate market, is doubling down on its corporate principles – including adaptive product development, low cost land acquisition and establishing local communities – to navigate those challenges. Bonds & Loans speaks with Benson…
21 Aug 2018
Luft Energia CEO Doris Capurro Eyes Multilaterals, ECAs for Argentina Renewables Funding
Doris Capurro, President, CEO & Founder, Luft Energia talks to Bonds & Loans about the company’s renewable energy development plans, and its bid to tap into multilateral development institutions and export credit agencies to help finance the next wave of projects in the pipeline.
16 Aug 2018
Interview: Sharjah DMO Director on the Building Boom in UAE, ECA Financing and PPPs
With trade wars and geopolitics-related volatilities engulfing global markets, the GCC finds itself in an unusual role of a relative safe-haven, insulated from the tremors by strong growth and a high oil price. We speak to Tom Koczwara, Director of the Government of Sharjah’s Debt Management Office, about prospects and challenges facing the Emirate.
9 Aug 2018
Odinsa CFO: Colombia’s Economic Tailwinds, New Government to Bolster Existing 4G Pipeline
Colombia is a world leader when it comes to public-private partnerships in the infrastructure sector, and the country’s flagship toll road infrastructure initiative – the 4G programme – is regularly held up as a beacon for other regional economies to replicate. But last year, due in part to eroding economic fundamentals and political volatility, many of the programme’s key projects were hit with…
7 Aug 2018
Part II: Idiosyncratic Challenges Weighing on East Africa’s Local Bond Markets Growth
As East African borrowers' access to dollar liquidity, plentiful in the 00s and early 10s, becomes more limited amid central bank tightening across the developed world, infrastructure development looks set to become the new driver for the local debt capital markets in the region. We explore the shift to private markets and potential for new financing instruments in Part 2 of our story.
31 Jul 2018
SWOT Analysis: Mexico Elections and Beyond
As Mexico voted in the new president, Bonds & Loans met with a broad range of local finance leaders, corporate chiefs and state officials to discuss the market outlook and get a sense of the risks and opportunities on the horizon.
4 Jul 2018
Reforms Amplify Uncertainty in Saudi Arabia’s Real Estate Sector
Saudi Arabia’s grand ambitions to create new large-scale residential, industrial, “shoppertainment” and other mixed-use developments could be a boon for the country’s – indeed the region’s – real estate developers, investors and financiers. But the sector’s potential has never looked so mixed.
14 Jun 2018
As Economy Stumbles, Argentina’s PPP Pipeline Gains Renewed Focus
Tasked with generating over USD26bn in new investment over five years, Argentina’s Public-Private Partnership programme has been hailed by international experts and bankers as world-leading in both structure and ambition. But as the country’s economy – and currency – continue to stumble, fresh questions are being raised about whether it will live up to expectations.
5 Jun 2018
Neeraj Agrawal, CFO, Crescent Petroleum on Raising New Capital in Rising Rate Environment
Neeraj Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer of Crescent Petroleum sat down with Bonds & Loans at the Bonds, Loans & Sukuk 2018 conference in Dubai to talk about the funding team's key priorities this year, and dislocations between risk and the perception of risk in the GCC.
22 May 2018
CASE STUDY: Albanesi Attracts Traditional Credit PMs to Rare Dual-Tranche Syndication
A testament to solid investor relations, good governance and transparency, Albanesi was able to attract traditional portfolio managers to its latest dual-tranche A/B loan syndication, a rare project finance deal in the country’s power sector.
18 May 2018