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Infrastructure financing

The future of infrastructure investment

The UK's offer

  • Access deep capital pools and a global investor base
  • Participate in a leading centre for infrastructure finance
  • Tap into the expertise of the world's leading speciality risk insurance market
  • Benefit from the UK's strong regulatory, legal and business environment
  • Access the specialist advisory services to support infrastructure financing

Financing global ambition

The UK offers deep capital pools, a global investor base, and the world's leading specialty risk insurance markets. Supported by legal and other advisory services, its mature and diverse financial ecosystem is a global hub for major infrastructure financing. Many of the world’s leading infrastructure advisory services firms are based in London, including financing, procurement, project development, accounting, tax, mergers and acquisitions, regulation, and risk management.

The London Stock Exchange (LSE) is a leading hub for sustainable finance and its expertise in the provision of green finance is reshaping the infrastructure investment landscape. To help investors identify sustainable investment opportunities, the LSE introduced the Green Economy Mark recognising London-listed companies and funds that derive more than half of their revenues from environmental related products and services. Many companies recognised with the Green Economy Mark are in infrastructure financing related sectors. 

In service of sustainable infrastructure

The UK was first to commit to net zero, and has a long track record of bankable, sustainable infrastructure projects. With one of the longest track records in green infrastructure, the UK's professional and business sector can deliver innovative, commercially viable, and sustainable infrastructure projects.

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Expertise and capability

All of the top ten infrastructure investment managers have a presence in the UK.

Expertise and capability

Insurance for any project

Lloyd’s, the world’s biggest specialist insurance and reinsurance market, has a unique capacity to reinsure risks of big infrastructure projects anywhere in the world

Insurance for any project

A growth market

An estimated $6.9 trillion of global infrastructure investment is needed each year between now and 2030, to meet climate and development objectives.

A growth market

A culture of innovation

With a reputation for innovation and collaboration, the UK is perfectly placed to develop the innovative solutions needed for ambitious development worldwide: from the sophisticated insurance solutions offered by the world's largest specialty risk market, through to leadership in sustainable finance.

£15bn

in infrastructure project loans

accounting for 15% of the EMEA infrastructure loan market in 2023

£1.6bn

in infrastructure project bonds

making the UK one of the major global sources of infrastructure debt financing in 2023

43%

of global specialty insurance

The London Market is the world's largest speciality insurance market

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Offering infrastructure solutions for a global market

Offering infrastructure solutions for a global market

Partner story

Estates and Infrastructure Exchange: 'Everyone being in the room together makes a huge difference.'

Estates and Infrastructure Exchange: 'Everyone being in the room together makes a huge difference.'

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"A combination of deep and liquid debt and equity finance markets, world class asset management capabilities along with associated advisory, legal, technical and insurance services have enabled London to become one of the key global infrastructure financing hubs."

Andrew Rose, Chief Executive Global Infrastructure Investor Association

"In the age that we are in, your base could in effect be anywhere for a digital business. But in terms of the stature that comes from being positioned where we are, the connections that are available and the way that we can bring the teams that we work with in and out of this venue, our current location is ideal."

Dan Garrity, Marketing Manager Estates and Infrastructure Exchange

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