Singapore seeks to lure investors for Asia’s infrastructure 12 SHARES Share it! “The demand for infrastructure financing in Asia is outpacing countries’ funding capacity,” Ravi Menon, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, said at the Nomura Investment Forum Asia. More than 90 percent of infrastructure investment in the region is currently financed by governments, he said. To facilitate Asian infrastructure financing, Singapore is working with industry partners to securitize a pool of brownfield regional project finance loans from banks into a collateralized loan obligation, Menon said. The wealthy city-state is also creating investment benchmarks that will allow investors to compare returns on privately-held infrastructure debt and equity against other asset classes.

Source: Manila Bulletin June 05, 2018 07:30 UTC