England, P3-TV Videos
Assured Guaranty recently provided a financial guarantee on a UK PFI bond issue, originally issued by Worcestershire Hospital SPC Plc in 1999 which raised £97.2m to finance the construction and operation of the Worcestershire Royal Hospital with Assured replacing the original guarantor Ambac. This is the first infrastructure bond transaction guaranteed in Europe since the onset of the global credit crisis - the question is - Is it a gamechanger for the monlines? TFI-News met with Dominic Nathan, Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure to analyse the deal.( 9mins 43 secs).
UK, P3-TV Videos, Rail
International law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner recently released a thought leadership report examining UK rail and the next steps. TFI-News met with Russell Clifford, Partner & Head Asset Finance and Marc Hanson, Partner, Construction, Engineering & Procurement to discuss the main themes of the report. (10mins 56secs).
UK, P3-TV Videos, Ports
Last month saw the shareholders of Associated British Ports (ABP) successfully conclude the refinancing of its acquisition debt used to acquire the asset in 2006. The refinancing secured £2.36bn in new funding facilities, no mean feat in today's financial markets. TFI-News met with ABP's CFO Sebastian Bull to get the inside track (9mins 41secs)
Infrastructure Funds, P3-TV Videos
TFI-New met with John McCarthy, Managing Director, Global Head, RREEF Infrastructure, a major infrastructure fund player within the industry to discuss the fund's progress, get his thoughts on key markets and investment opportunities as well as his views on the financing of infrastructure transactions. (16mins 47secs)
Infrastructure Funds, P3-TV Videos
TFI-News met with Citi Infrastructure Investors' (CII) Colin Campbell, Partner and Head for Asia Pacific to discuss the environment for infrastructure investing and the successful completion of a majority stake in DP World Australia. (13mins 2secs)
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UK, P3-TV Videos
TFI-News met with former Infrastructure UK and Partnerships UK CEO James Stewart. Now as chair of KPMG's global infrastructure group, his new role sees him criss crossing the globe advising governments on PPPs giving him a real insight into market activity around the world. TFI-News caught up with him to get his views on where the markets are heading. (15mins 46secs).
Infrastructure Funds, P3-TV Videos
As the seventh largest infrastructure manager in the world, Access Capital Advisers is well versed in infrastructure investment and acts as an independent alternative asset investment adviser, portfolio manager, asset manager and asset consultant. It's an interesting model for the infrastructure business and TFI-News met with Stephen Burns, European Head to discuss further (6mins 56secs).
Video available on TFI-News YouTube Channel