http://www.iflr.com/RSS.aspx?FeedID=2362©2013 IFLR 201160Project financeAfrica’s seemingly unstoppable rise as a global investment hub has led to an increase in the number of complex projects on the resource-rich continent. These are the factors now shaping investor decisionshttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3206497/How-to-prepare-for-projects-in-Africa.htmlThu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTAhead of IFLR’s second annual Africa Forum, panelist Brian Marcus, director of project and export finance at Standard Chartered, has outlined the legal idiosyncrasies that characterise Africa's maturing syndications markethttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3202509/StanChart-how-to-compete-on-African-syndications.htmlWed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 GMTPapua New Guinea is seeing more foreign investment in its vast reserves of natural resources. But investors must be aware of islands’ local legal quirkshttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3191628/Papua-New-Guinea-outlook-improving.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTEmerging market banks in Europe, the Middle East and Asia are primed to play a much greater role in large, long-term project financings as western banks retreathttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3191624/Project-finance-how-to-fill-the-bank-funding-void.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTThailand’s new law governing public-private partnerships provides for enormous infrastructure investment, prompting renewed foreign investor interest in the sectorhttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3191408/Thailand-PPP-law-may-unleash-infrastructure-investment.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTAn availability-based toll road project in the US reveals that municipal bond investors are willing to accept increasing risks in public-private partnershipshttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3191486/The-deal-that-tests-efficacy-of-US-PPPs.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTInfrastructure debt funds have surged in popularity recently. But there remain questions around what this boom means for banks and how to identify the pressure points for future market developmenthttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3191516/The-project-debt-boom-pressure-points-identified.htmlTue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTA lack of limited-recourse finance in Japan has stopped foreign investors from taking advantage of the country’s favourable feed-in tariff for renewable energy. But that might change with Shinsei Bank’s latest dealhttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3190250/Rare-non-recourse-loan-boosts-Japanese-renewables.htmlFri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMTThe completion of a flagship solar project in Abu Dhabi and a recent white paper on renewable energy in Saudi Arabia suggest there is more to comehttp://www.iflr.com/Article/3182911/The-keys-to-renewable-energy-success-in-the-Middle-East.htmlThu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT