With this, three highway assets of the IRB Infrastructure Trust, located in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan, have now become part of the IRB InvIT Fund’s asset portfolio. IRB Infrastructure Developers Ltd (IRBL), India’s largest multinational transport infrastructure developer in the highways sector, announced late Thursday that its sponsored IRB InvIT Fund has completed the...
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InvITs Deliver Strong Returns in India but Require Disciplined Investment, Finds New Study
Advising against indiscriminate investment, the Client Associates study calls for a well-informed approach to maximise returns from InvITs, as infrastructure creation gathers pace. A recent study has revealed that while infrastructure investment trusts (InvITs) are only nine years old in India as a financing instrument, they have delivered average pre-tax returns of 10-12 per cent...
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Jayant Sinha Calls for Green Growth as ITA Launches India Programme on Clean Industrialisation
The ITA India Project Support Programme aims to unlock demand, de-risk finance, and fast-track projects that can shape India’s leadership in clean manufacturing. A developed India must also be a green India, Jayant Sinha, President, Eversource Capital and former lawmaker, said in an impassioned address on Tuesday. “To become a Viksit Bharat (developed India), we...
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ITA to Launch India Support Programme to Accelerate Industrial Decarbonisation
The ITA has identified more than 65 potential clean industrial projects across sectors, including aluminium, steel, cement, chemicals, and aviation, to advance a first wave to final investment decision within the next two to three years. The Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA), a global initiative launched at COP28 to fast-track decarbonisation in heavy-emitting sectors, will formally...
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Tata Capital Secures $16 Million GCF Facility to Support India’s Climate-Tech Start-ups
The revolving structure of the funding programme ensures long-term sustainability, with loan repayments from start-ups reinvested into new ventures, creating a continuous cycle of support for India’s green innovation ecosystem. Tata Capital, the flagship financial services arm of the salt-to-software Tata Group, has partnered with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) under the newly approved BEACON...
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DFI to create financing ecosystem for infra projects
The government remains committed to rolling out systemic interventions to ensure the necessary action on the proposed divestment and asset monetisation programmes, says Dr. TV Somanathan, Secretary Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Click here to read more
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DFI to deliver long term-economic returns’
Like the DFIs created by policymakers in the 1950s for making industrial capital accessible, the new body corporate will provide easy access to funding for infrastructure projects critical to nation-building . Click here to read more
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Netafim India subsidiary raises $40 million funding from Israeli firms
The Indian subsidiary of Netafim Singapore, Netafim Agricultural Financing Agency (NAFA), has raised $40 million via external commercial borrowing (ECB) from Phoenix Group and Cogito Capital of Israel.
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CW Maharashtra mega virtual conference focuses on opportunities
Platform at unprecedented scale to attract the biggest names
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NaBFID Financing for the Future
So far, the Central Government has made all the right moves as it goes about setting up the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID). But will the newly created entity be able to deliver on its mandate of developing a robust financing ecosystem for the infrastructure sector once it gets operationalised? The Central...