Andy Thomson
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A variation of ING’s innovative debt platform was deployed as Zaanstad Penitentiary reached financial close.
Aviva Investors has bought €84.5m of senior secured notes issued in a private placement by Dutch telecoms firm Reggefiber.
Work has been halted at a Spanish gas facility - the European Investment Bank’s first-ever project bond deal. Fitch is warning of a possible downgrade.
Salford Housing PFI represents flying start for three senior executives from Hadrian’s Wall, which pulled the plug on its debut debt fund in June.
Australian fund manager AMP Capital is almost a third of the way to a $1bn final target for its second infrastructure debt fund.
The link-up is the second of its type for Natixis after it previously launched a similar platform with Ageas at the end of last year.
The UK-based infrastructure and private equity fund manager has announced the issuance of a solar bond to be listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The European Union-focused fund manager has acquired 22.5% of the 288-megawatt Butendiek project. Danish pensions Industriens Pension and PKA, plus Germany’s Siemens Financial Services, have also purchased 22.5% stakes.
Research from EDHEC Risk Institute, part of France’s EDHEC Business School, suggests that construction risk is a desirable exposure for infrastructure debt investors and should not be ‘pushed out of sight’ as a public sector liability.
The European Union-focused fund manager is part of a joint venture with Suez Environnement subsidiary SITA Polska which has been named preferred bidder for a landmark deal in the Polish city of Poznan.