Allard M. Nooy, CEO of InfraCo Asia, presented a paper and moderated an interactive panel discussion at the Tomson Reuters / ALB South East Asia Project Finance Conference in Singapore on 10 September 2014. During his presentation Allard highlighted

• Infrastructure investment and financing volumes in 2013 vs. 2014;
• Investment in energy, infrastructure and resources;
• Private financing for energy and infrastructure investment;
• Financing volumes for renewables pulling ahead of conventional volumes;
• The UN Climate Change Conference in 2015 – governments looking for evidence that renewables can attract capital;
• Government activity in infrastructure procurement;
• Financing in energy, transport and other infrastructure and the changing economic and demographic requirements;
• Reforms and fostering private sector investments in key infrastructure sectors;

Enabling legislation;

• Relatively small pool of commercial banks active in the international project finance arena;
• The adaption to multi-source financing plans: accessing export credit agencies, multilateral agencies, development banks, and of course local and regional commercial banks;
• Demand for quality long term-assets (by pension funds, life insurance companies, other institutional or hold-to-maturity investors);
• Governments in Asia understanding the need to improve infrastructure;
• Level of private sector involvement in the delivery of infrastructure across Asia;
• PPP delivery framework;
• Lack of a sufficient pipeline of properly prepared projects, refinement of procurement practices and better coordination across stakeholders;
• Assessing and mitigating counterparty risk at both the country and private levels and sovereign risk.