FT-IAAB Summit 2019 | Financial Times | 29 October 2019 | Four Seasons Hotel, 8號 Finance St, Central, Hong Kong

The market for infrastructure finance is evolving at a rapid pace. The requirement for trillions of dollars in the coming years is forging a dynamic funding landscape that offers more diverse and flexible approaches to investors. Traditional debt, equity and blended finance options are being reimagined, and advanced structures are emerging influenced by changing risk appetites, yield expectations, and environmental, social and governance factors. As infrastructure grows as an asset class, new innovations and strategies will be developed, presenting both opportunities and complexities. What are the next steps to build on progress already made, and to continue to deepen markets, manage liquidity and provide a wide range of options as demanded by stakeholders?

The 3 rd FT-AIIB Summit will explore how this high potential market can expand further. Taking place in Hong Kong, it will bring together policy makers, investors, financiers and developers to work together on enhancing the regulatory and structural environment needed to foster creativity in infrastructure finance.

Chaired by senior FT journalists, our agenda will explore how financiers are thinking outside the box, providing the new structures, transactions and solutions needed to attract private capital into infrastructure. Investors will share their priorities as regards risk, returns and tenor, as they look to capitalise on the value of infrastructure investment. Discussion will focus on the shifting dynamics between debt, equity and blended finance as green finance comes to the fore. Speakers will also analyse the prospects for asset securitisation to free up capital, the developing secondary market, and the evolving environment for public-private-partnerships.

This year’s FT-AIIB Summit will once again connect all the stakeholders involved in infrastructure in Asia to share knowledge and plan the future direction of the finance markets in this sector.

2019 Sponsors and Partner

FOUNDING PARTNER:
• Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Amundi Asset Management
• S&P Global Ratings