Asia: Bright outlook for ECA-backed deals

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05 October 2011

Jonathan Bell examines the potentially exciting future for export and project finance in the Asia-Pacific region.

Compared to other regions of the world, particularly Russia/CIS and the Middle East, Asia-Pacific has, for the most part, been characterised by sluggish ECA-backed activity. All this looks set to change as the Asia-Pacific region finds its real export credit financing potential with a wealth of large-scale capital equipment supply transactions and projects in the pipeline.

There is a massive need for plant and infrastructure across the region. According to Asia Development Bank (ADB) figures, Asia needs $8 trillion infrastructure investment in the next 10 years. Certainly, ECA-backed financing is going to be one of the major sources of financing for those projects – although other solutions will also be required to meet all the demands.

To date though, export finance has never really hit any true potential in the region. Many years ago there had always been the potential excitement of big ECA-backed projects in China. But this notion...

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