On October 22, LatinFinance inaugurated SFLA – Structured Finance in Latin America forum at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, bringing together the region’s most active structured market players from the investor, issuer, financial advisory, banking, rating agency, legal and regulatory perspectives.

The landscape for infrastructure financing is undergoing an historic transformation. Major initiatives to boost liquidity, led by China, Japan and several multilateral organisations, are set to provide a substantial ramp-up in development, while low interest rates are making infrastructure assets more appealing to investors, with new funds launched on a regular basis.

The Second Annual Meeting of Long-Term Infrastructure Investors Association spanned two days. Day One featured a specialist program, with LTIIA members and infrastructure investors discussing the Association’s initiatives, including the development of benchmarking platform and the ESG Handbook. Day Two comprised of general sessions where many policy makers, researchers and infrastructure opinion leaders joined the meeting.

Portland Private Equity was pleased to participate at the annual CIBC FirstCaribbean Infrastructure Conference, a major regional conference focused on infrastructure and development issues in the Caribbean. This year, the two day conference’s agenda focused on the development of airport, tourism, water utilities, energy and social infrastructure.

The world's youngest continent is now the fastest-growing region, yet poverty persists, job creation is slow and inequality is rising. Learning from the past 25 years, what national and regional strategies can today's leaders pursue by appealing to and engaging.

A two-day main conference forum—attended by over 800 representatives of the industry’s leading institutional investors and fund managers, including over 320 LPs—is the keystone to a week of events in Washington, D.C. focusing on EM PE investing. The 17th Annual Global Private Equity Conference, centering on the theme of Unlocking the Power of Private Equity in Emerging Markets, will convene thought leaders and industry practitioners for thought-provoking keynotes and candid panel discussions covering emerging and frontier markets in CEE/CIS, Emerging Asia, Latin America, MENA, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

GDF will feature keynote addresses by The Honorable Ander Crenshaw, U.S. Representative, R-FL; and Dr. Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director of the World Bank Group. Breakout panel discussions will foster dialogue on topics including private sector partnerships, capacity building and workforce development, innovative finance, the post-2015 global development agenda, Ebola recovery in West Africa, and the strategic role of development in overall U.

TXF Washington took place one day prior to the 2015 US Ex-Im Bank annual conference, which saw over 1000 people attend, including senior bankers, exporters, borrowers and many more. Our event was deliberately placed at this time so guests could take advantage of having so many clients and colleagues in town.

On 1 April 2015, the OECD convened the 2015 Global Forum on Development, the final in a threeyearcycle on Preparing for Post-2015. This year, ministerial and senior-level participants from developing countries, multilateral institutions, foundations and non-governmental organisations, OECD countries and the OECD Secretariat gathered to discuss "Post-2015 Financing for Sustainable Development".

Firmly established as the continent's only pan-African debt event, Bonds & Loans Africa focuses on the full range of debt products African governments, banks and companies have been accessing since the conference was launched 4 years ago. With over 450 local and international banks, borrowers, issuers, investors and financial service providers from across the whole of the African continent expected to attend this year's annual gathering the event will be the prime opportunity to network with the industry's most senior decision makers and secure new investment.