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December 2011
Assured Guaranty replaced Ambac as the guarantor on the £92.7 million of bonds issued by the Worcestershire Hospital
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France’s PPP market sailed through the last crisis unscathed, even strengthened, and 2011 has been its busiest year yet. A new crisis may require further structural changes. Tom Nelthorpe gathers public and private players from across the market in London.
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Abengoa and GE Energy Financial Services have launched a $600 million bond refinancing for the 300MW Nuevo Pemex
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The sponsors of the Ruby pipeline have postponed plans for a $1.425 billion combined bank and bond refinancing.
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November 2011
The sponsors of the Exeltium 2 French virtual power plant financing are unlikely to have the financing structure in place until 2012.
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ICA closed the Ps9.7 billion ($709 million) financing for the Sarre and Papagos prison PPPs in Mexico on 28 September. The deal breaks down into a Ps7.1 billion non-recourse certificados bursatiles bond issue and Ps2.6 billion in equity. It is the first entirely commercially financed greenfi...
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The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has signed of a memorandum of understanding with the National Association of Pension Funds
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Canadian institutional investors looking for higher yields are driving the boom in publicly-rated PPP infrastructure bonds. Would the market survive a substantial default? Edward Russell reports.
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407 International has closed a C$350 million ($343 million) bond issue under its recently-established C$800 million medium-term note programme
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Swiss-based mining group Xstrata has priced a $3 billion bond issue to refinance existing debt and for general corporate purposes.
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At a time when banks are looking to de-leverage their balance sheets, the traditional avenues open for them to shed project finance debt – during syndications and through collateralised debt obligations – are closed. True, some syndication has taken place but only on a limited basis and with the arr...