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     <title><![CDATA[UK Bankers Consider Shaking Off PFI Debt]]></title>
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  Sponsors can look back with satisfaction to days when PFI loans were priced as low as 50 bps. For the lenders, the memory of such margins isn't so nice. But getting rid of loans that are performing
  well isn't so easy. What to do about them is a recurring discussion among bankers. SMBC recently showed one option with a synthetic securitization of PFI loans. Few have followed suit, at least not
  publicly. Randolph Walerius asks bankers how the issue is likely to play out.
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      <pubDate>2010-09-07T11:14:32+01:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[UK Waste Finds Investors, But Completions Rare]]></title>
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  The UK's obligation to cut landfill use is opening up opportunities for waste companies to find uses for the material. Getting energy from the waste is becoming one of the most preferred.
  The sector is attracting new participants to join the established players in bids to build plants to handle all that waste. But the need for alternatives to landfills and the appetite to bid for
  them doesn't necessarily mean projects. Few deals have been signed and those that have take much longer than expected to complete. InfraNews' Peter Kneller looks at what's driving the
  business and where the speed bumps are.
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      <pubDate>2010-06-21T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Preparing Renewables Assets for the Long Term]]></title>
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  Renewable energy is the latest addition to the infrastructure asset class. Infrastructure funds are raising specialized vehicles or allocating part of their general funds to renewables. As
  more money moves into the sector, at least the safer on shore wind and solar photovoltaic parts, market participants are starting to ask who&#160;are likely to be the ultimate owners of the assets.
  InfraNews' Peter Kneller looks at recent development and asks how the sector is likely to evolve.
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      <pubDate>2010-05-04T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[New Era, New Concept: What Next for UK PPP/PFI?]]></title>
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  The UK's practice of using the private sector to procure public infrastructure is a tried and tested one. But after almost two decades of success and with an election due by early June, the talk in
  the sector is that change is coming. Infra-News recently asked four experienced UK infrastructure practitioners to join us for breakfast to discuss &#8220;New Era, New Concept: What Next
  for UK PFI/PPP. Paul Davies of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Chris Elliott of Barclays Private Equity, Adrian Ewer of Laing, and James Stewart, who recently left Partnerships UK to become chief executive
  of the newly-established Infrastructure UK, joined Infra-News to think about what should come next.
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      <pubDate>2010-02-08T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Banks vs Bonds: The Debate Continues]]></title>
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  The cost of bank debt in 2009 led many in the US infrastructure market to look for alternative ways to fund projects. Catherine McGuirk looks at the PABs, BABs, TIFIA and other vehicles used to
  keep deals flowing in the middle of a severe economic downturn. Even the banks are starting to notice and, as one sponsor sees it, are starting to return calls.
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      <pubDate>2010-02-01T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[UK Infrastructure Readies for a New Phase]]></title>
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  Helicopters aren't exactly evacuating people from the rooftops, but the Labour government is giving off distinct signs of a coming regime change in the future. After 12 mostly good years for UK
  greenfield and brownfield infrastructure investors, the market can smell change in the air.
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      <pubDate>2009-10-29T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[UK PFI Infrastructure &#8211; A Call For Capital]]></title>
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  The UK PFI market has seen better days. Many projects are expected to come to the market in the New Year, but illiquidity among commercial lenders, the increasing costs of funds and the possibility
  of shorter tenors all make for an uncertain future. Infra-News deputy editor Janet Du Chenne asks if these problems persist, how long before the market hits the wall and are there any solutions.
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      <pubDate>2008-12-01T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Impact of the Liquidity Crisis on Infrastructure]]></title>
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  Over 200 representatives from banks, infrastructure funds, monoline insurers, financial advisors, technical advisors, the public sector, accountancy firms and lawyers attended a one-day Infra-News
  seminar hosted by law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer at the end of February. Entitled &#8216;Investing in European Infrastructure as an Established Asset Class&#8217;, the primary focus was
  the impact of the liquidity crisis on infrastructure. The message to come out of the meeting was that infrastructure as an asset class is holding up well despite current market conditions and there
  are still numerous investment opportunities in the UK, continental Europe and emerging markets.


  Infra-News European Analyst Sara Knight reviews some of the key themes from the meeting and offers a perspective of current market sentiment.
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      <pubDate>2008-04-03T00:00:00+01:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[German Stadtwerke: Much Desired, Hard to Get]]></title>
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  Germany&#8217;s municipal utility companies, or Stadtwerke, offer a potentially new investment opportunity for infrastructure funds. On the sell-side, the need is certainly there. Many of
  the Stadtwerke face budgetary constraints and are under pressure from tougher regulation of their energy network activities, which will almost certainly result in reduced income. However, need does
  necessarily equate to a market and there are numerous hurdles to overcome before this sector can be considered in the same way as European ports or airports. There is considerable competition from
  strategic investors and, as the recent case of Leipzig demonstrated, local politics are also a concern. Infra-News&#8217; European Correspondent Sara Knight takes a look at the Stadtwerke to see if
  they will offer investment opportunities for infrastructure funds.
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      <pubDate>2008-02-27T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Capital Beltway Sets the Benchmark for Greenfield Toll Road P3s]]></title>
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  Virginia&#8217;s Capital Beltway HOT Lane deal has a number of innovative aspects which make it a groundbreaking transaction for the US P3 toll-road industry. It features the first tolling
  system in the US that will employ a dynamic pricing system which reflects real-time changes in levels of congestion. It incorporates an innovative financing structure including tax-exempt bonds and
  a low-cost federal loan provided by the US Department of Transportation. The deal also reflects the high degree of collaboration between the public and private sectors.


  P3Americas Editor Peter Allison and New York Editor David Sundel talk to global toll-road developer Transurban and other key protagonists to gain an insight into the deal.
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      <pubDate>2008-02-13T00:00:00+00:00</pubDate>
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