Category: Infrastructure Finance

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Tata Capital Secures $16 Million GCF Facility to Support India’s Climate-Tech Start-ups

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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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...

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DFI to deliver long term-economic returns

DFI to deliver long term-economic returns

As a development finance institution (DFI), the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NaBFID), will facilitate cheap capital for public works programmes and projects, says Vinayak Chatterjee, Chairman, Feedback Infra Group & Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), National Council on Infrastructure. Like the DFIs created by policymakers in the 1950s for making industrial capital accessible,...

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DFI to create financing ecosystem for infra projects

DFI to create financing ecosystem for infra projects

The new Development Finance Institution (DFI) will be a fairly large entity that will play a key role in the Central Government’s strategy to facilitate the creation of a robust financing ecosystem for infrastructure projects in the country. Simultaneously, the government also remains committed to rolling out systemic interventions to ensure the necessary action on...

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A New Chapter Begins in Infra Financing

As the country slowly emerges from a severe second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, policymakers in the Central Government have actively been implementing solutions for kickstarting the economy since the previous fiscal. More recently, the setting up of the National Bank for Infrastructure & Financing Development (NaBFID) will ensure long-term financing for major infrastructure projects...