Sources and Availability of Finance
Key Issues
- A radical transformation has taken place in the channels through which finance flows to UK infrastructure in the last few years
- Traditional funding sources are now constrained and have had to modify their infrastructure participation
- Banking Institutions due to more stringent regulatory provisions
- Governments due to record high budget deficits and levels of debt
- Institutional groups (pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, sovereign funds and others) have become highly positive financing sources. Their importance as suppliers of long term debt and equity to infrastructure has been growing and the volume of funds invested has multiplied -
trends expected to continue in the years ahead.