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Local Asset Backed Vehicles

Last week we published an Industry Insights interview with Neil Rutledge of Grant Thornton on the topic of Local Asset Backed Vehicles (“LABVs”).

This was a really interesting interview for me as I hadn’t worked on this type of deal before and it sounded a lot more flexible than some comparable procurement programmes in terms of its approach to risk sharing, funding and the contribution both the public and private sector partners put in.

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By Lynn Martin on April 23, 2012Lynn Martin

Lynn Martin is an Associate Director with F1F9. With more than 14 years experience of financial modelling in PPP & Project Finance, Lynn leads our online Project Finance course

The Future of Infrastructure Financing

We recently posted Industry Insights interviews focusing on infrastructure financing with Toby Stokes of Aviva and Dominic Nathan of Assured Guaranty discussing the lending options provided by their firms.

Following on from this we thought it would be useful to get Tim Stone’s global perspective on how Europe could fund some of the anticipated infrastructure investment requirement. In today's Industry Insights interview Tim shares his thoughts on:

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By Lynn Martin on March 7, 2012Lynn Martin

Lynn Martin is an Associate Director with F1F9. With more than 14 years experience of financial modelling in PPP & Project Finance, Lynn leads our online Project Finance course

Pension funds and infrastructure financing

There has been a lot of discussion in the industry news recently about pension funds financing future infrastructure investment and the hurdles which have prevented this from happening so far on a large scale in the UK.

The UK Treasury is currently holding a series of meetings with pension funds and industry bodies to discuss ways of making infrastructure investments more attractive to them.

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By Lynn Martin on February 15, 2012Lynn Martin

Lynn Martin is an Associate Director with F1F9. With more than 14 years experience of financial modelling in PPP & Project Finance, Lynn leads our online Project Finance course

The wrapped bond is back!

With all the doom and gloom surrounding liquidity in the senior debt market and pressure around debt tenors we were delighted to see that Assured Guaranty had issued the first "wrap" for an infrastructure bond in Europe since the start of the credit crisis.

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By Lynn Martin on January 20, 2012Lynn Martin

Lynn Martin is an Associate Director with F1F9. With more than 14 years experience of financial modelling in PPP & Project Finance, Lynn leads our online Project Finance course

Updated: 2012 Excel Developer Conference

The 2012 Excel Developer Conference takes place on January 25th in London. F1F9 is delighted to be supporting the event.

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By Simon Murphy on December 30, 2011Simon Murphy

Simon is a freelance software developer specialising in integrating Excel with other enterprise resources. He has been doing spreadsheets forever, having started in the 80's, and mainly works in the financial analysis and reporting arena.