A Blueprint for British Business - Infrastructure
 

28/11/2012
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08:30 - 09:00Registration and networking breakfast
09:00 - 09:10Chair’s welcome and introduction
Brian Groom, Business and Employment Editor, Financial Times
09:10 - 09:40Opening address: Future finance for capital projects
Mike Chappell, Managing Director & Head of Project Finance, Europe, Lloyds Bank
09:40 - 09:50Coffee served at tables
09:50 - 10:50Panel debate: Financing the UK's infrastructure
Gershon Cohen, CEO & Fund Principal, Infrastructure Funds, Lloyds Bank
Alan MacKay, CEO, Hermes GPE
Derek Potts, Managing Director, Business Development division, John Laing
Geoffrey Spence, CEO, Infrastructure UK, HM Treasury

Moderated by Brian Groom, Business and Employment Editor, Financial Times.

  • Just how interconnected and/or dependent is the overall economy on the UK’s current infrastructure projects?
  • Should quantitative easing be followed by investment in long-term structural improvements to road, railways, airports and the UK’s energy network?
  • Will the National Infrastructure Plan make a real difference and which British businesses (small and large) are best placed to benefit?
  • What’s the current focus for the transport, energy and social infrastructure sectors?
  • Which financing options are available to deliver these projects?
    - The viability of project bonds as a funding tool
    - Tapping into the large amounts of short-term liquidity available in the economy to fund projects
    - The role of institutional investors – which infrastructure projects appeal to them and why?
    - What are the infrastructure funds currently doing?
10:50 - 11:00Chair’s closing remarks
Brian Groom, Business and Employment Editor, Financial Times
11:00 - 11:30Refreshments and networking
11:30Close of forum