Building the blocks of a new era in project finance

There’s a problem in project finance. Banks no longer want to hold assets. Governments want to launch huge infrastructure projects. Can traditional asset managers and pension funds, which like the risk/reward profile of infrastructure, fill the gap?

Project financing is a stark example of a market where high risk-weighted charges and the high cost of long-dated liabilities are leading to a reduction in banks’ appetite to provide financing.

As in lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), where policymakers are badgering banks to keep lending even while announcing new capital and liquidity requirements that make it hard for them to do so, project and infrastructure finance increasingly looks central to efforts to kick-start stalled economies.

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