The Belgian-French bank that's supplying the financing to several public-private partnership (P3) projects in British Columbia has exhausted half of the government guarantees it received in a September bailout. Dexia is a financial partner in the Royal Jubilee, Kelowna and...
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The Vancouver Sun has published a major feature that raises serious questions about the financial health of privately-financed infrastructure projects in British Columbia.The investigative report comes a day...
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A plan to privately finance the twinning of the Port Mann Bridge and widen Highway 1 through a public-private partnership (P3) appears to be on shaky ground. The Australian financial partner in the scheme -- the market-battered Macquarie Group -- has been unable to secure...
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Dexia, the Belgian-French bank that's bankrolling three major infrastructure projects in British Columbia, saw its stock value plummet by more than 81 per cent in 2008. It was the largest loss by a company listed on France's benchmark CAC index this past year, ahead of...
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Dexia, the Belgian-French bank that's involved in several public-private partnership schemes in British Columbia, may be broken up by the governments who bailed it out. The bank is providing financing for the Royal Jubilee Hospital expansion in Victoria, a new Surrey...
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Dexia, the Belgian-French bank that's backing a number of the B.C. Liberal government's public-private partnership (P3) schemes to build bridges and hospitals, has admitted that it could face serious losses as a result of the Madoff fraud case. " Franco-Belgian lender...
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The federal minister in charge of transportation and infrastructure, John Baird, will be meeting today with B.C. finance minister Colin Hansen to talk about fast-tracking infrastructure investments to offset the slowdown in the economy. Both the B.C. and federal...
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A British newspaper is reporting that Dexia, the Franco-Belgian bank involved in financing B.C.'s Golden Ears Bridge project through a so-called public-private partnership (P3) deal, has failed to come up with the...
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The head of the B.C. government agency charged with promoting privately financed public infrastructure has a rosy view of the current credit crisis facing the European banks that are putting up the capital for an...
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A second Belgian bank has had to be rescued by a coalition of the Luxembourg, Belgium and Netherlands governments. The announcement that Dexia will be bailed out comes one day after the countries announced they...
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