Financing Strategies
Sudan
Relatively unknown Luxembourg-based exploration company Star Petroleum on August 6 signed an agreement with Sudan to explore for oil and gas in Block Ea, which spans four states in...
2010-08-09Export credit agencies (ECAs) are taking up the slack in the absence of traditional lenders to support project financing. CFW believes that until international capital markets become...
2010-07-21South Africa
South Africa's largest public pension fund, the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), has announced plans to allocate US$4bn to infrastructure development in the country. One of...
2010-07-14Saudi Arabia
The privatisation of Saudi Arabia's port sector is progressing, with an independent firm due to be set up to manage the privatisation of eight of the kingdom's ports. BMI believes that...
2010-06-04The first close for InfraMed Infrastructure indicates that private equity-like infrastructure funds are gaining traction in the domain of multilaterals and national development banks....
2010-06-02Burundi
Trading of Trading of Orascom Telecom shares on the London Stock Exchange has been suspended pending an announcement form the Egypt-based company on the future of its African assets,...
2010-04-28United Arab Emirates
UAE-based Du has secured a vendor financing deal with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), reports Trade Arabia. The agreement is supported by Finnish credit export agency Finnvera,...
2010-04-07South Africa
BMI supports the actions of two South African asset management firms who have launched an investment worth over US$400mn aimed at improving agricultural development in South Africa,...
2010-03-31
