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GI Hub’s Richard Timbs explains how the new, free Project Pipeline can help the private sector access data about government infrastructure projects across the globe.

The GI Hub wants to hear your views on the policies and practices that enable greater investment in infrastructure.

The Hong Kong SAR Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Professor K C Chan, along with other senior officials of the Hong Kong Treasury, met with the GI Hub in Sydney on Thursday, 10 November. The parties discussed the work of the Hong Kong Infrastructure Financing Facilitation Office (IFFO), established by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA).

On 3 August 2016, the Lowy Institute hosted Global Infrastructure Hub CEO Chris Heathcote in conversation with G20 Studies Centre Project Director Tristram Sainsbury.

We are pleased to share the findings of an infrastructure investment study, released today by the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub) and EDHEC Infrastructure Institute-Singapore (EDHECinfra). The global study, which looked to identify investor expectations for the sector, found that investors have an increasing appetite for infrastructure including in emerging markets, with the number of investors looking for exposure to emerging markets set to more than double over the next 3-5 years.

GI Hub Chief Executive Chris Heathcote today addresses the International Organisation of Securities Commissions Roundtable in Madrid, Spain on the subject of Challenges in Infrastructure Financing and the Role of Capital.

The Global Infrastructure Hub will unite with APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) to exchange key knowledge and help countries to unlock private investment to finance much needed public infrastructure.

The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors have welcomed the launch of a new, interactive online risk allocation tool, the Global Infrastructure Hub’s (GI Hub) Annotated Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Risk Allocation Matrices. The Risk Allocation Matrices tool, developed by the GI Hub in partnership with global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, has been designed to assist developing economies better assess potential infrastructure investment risk.

GI Hub CEO Chris Heathcote appeared at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) first annual meeting on June 25-26. Mr Heathcote appeared on a panel discussing ‘Infrastructure and Global Economic Growth’.

The Global Infrastructure Hub has launched its Project Pipeline, an online platform to provide the private sector with free information about government infrastructure projects across the world.

Investors are most concerned about political and regulatory stability and the liquidity of the infrastructure market when considering funding public infrastructure, a new survey has revealed.

Mr Chris Heathcote, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Infrastructure Hub (GI Hub), and Mr Norman TL Chan, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today (4 July 2016) with respect to establishing a strategic framework of co-operation to facilitate the financing of infrastructure projects.