Infrastructure finance is one of the few remaining asset classes that have not yet fully embraced modern internet technology.
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With the speedy approval of the city council he created a new breed of infrastructure finance known as the Chicago Infrastructure Trust (CIT).
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Energy-rich Qatar is an important hub for infrastructure finance, with ambitions to develop further business in wealth management, private equity, retail banking and insurance.
Perhaps the Senate budget or the president's will be wiser about investing -- although neither is likely to think big enough about transport spending or an infrastructure bank or, better, a network of regional infrastructure finance institutions.
Anil Ambani has substantial interests in power, infrastructure and finance.
From 2004 to 2007, she was in the Corporate Finance group managing global finance infrastructure and controls functions.
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And the bill also will continue to improve our ability to finance infrastructure projects all across the country.
Like Barack Obama, Mr Rohatyn is an unabashed advocate of more public infrastructure spending and has proposed a National Infrastructure Bank to finance it.
In the EU he wants common European project bonds to finance infrastructure, a capital injection for the European Investment Bank (EIB) and a redirection of EU regional funds towards jobs.
The Welsh government said it was "following due process" on the issue of easing the congestion on the M4 around Newport, and that it was continuing to press the UK government for access to borrowing powers in order to finance infrastructure investment.
He is an acknowledged expert in the area of federal infrastructure budgeting and finance, having had an active role in the financing of each of the last three comprehensive surface transportation reauthorization bills dating back to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991.
There is also a lot of upbeat coverage in The Beijing News, China Daily and other media on a mooted Brics reserve fund, as well as a development bank that will finance infrastructure projects among the five members as well as developing countries.
The World Bank was designed to help countries, particularly developing ones, finance major infrastructure projects.
The fossil fuel banking infrastructure is based on financing large projects with a limited number of players: centralized infrastructure, and centralized finance.
Mr Obama's plans include creating an infrastructure bank to help finance transport projects, supporting high-speed rail and investing in subways and buses.
His new powers extend beyond relief and reconstruction to cover areas including infrastructure, banking and finance, rural and urban land use, telecommunications, defence and security.
Rohatyn's call for action is to create a National Infrastructure Bank that would finance projects using capital from the public as well as private and international funds.
Some examples of Recovery Act programs that leverage other investment funds are tax credits for advanced energy manufacturing, loan guarantees for small businesses, and interest subsidies for state and local borrowing to finance essential infrastructure projects.
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"The government has come to realise that it cannot finance the infrastructure of the country by itself so it has joined with the private sector and this is one of the elements which will go a long way to long term financing, " he said.
The Lib Dem version is an Infrastructure Bank to direct private finance into new rail services and green energy.
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Still, an investment-grade rating is handy if, like India, you run a current-account deficit and hope to attract foreigners to help finance your vast infrastructure needs over the next decade.
Providing more money for essential infrastructure and reforming local-government finance may ease some constraints but is unlikely to be enough to overcome local opposition everywhere.
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Meanwhile, governments are relying more and more on private companies to finance and build water infrastructure, in return for profitable long-term licences to run local monopolies.
He was skilful at getting countries to surrender their finest beaches for new resorts in return for electricity and other infrastructure, and persuading bankers to finance them.
Land-use planning for oil palm, for example, might involve not only the ministry of forestry but also those of agriculture, finance, energy and infrastructure as well as the army and the police.
Foreign-investment rules need to be loosened to raise standards in finance, higher education and infrastructure.
In finance, as well as infrastructure, China likes to lay down the tracks, platforms and ticket barriers before the throngs arrive.
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Its director general John Longworth has called for a "new model economy" based on more spending on infrastructure and a rethink on access to finance.
What this means in practice remains undefined, but it could signal a willingness to encourage the type of top down investment from EU level entities to finance growth through investment in infrastructure and in some cases, the renewable sector.
In Canada, pension funds have invested directly into infrastructure for years, reducing reliance on bank finance.
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