Data centres, e-mobility, green hydrogen sectors hold promise

24 May 2024 CW Team

Aseem Infrastructure Finance (AIFL), which specialises in funding infrastructure projects such as roads, green energy, transmission, logistics, etc, has built a high-quality asset book close to Rs 140 billion. Further, AIFL’s deep domain expertise and project assessment skills are its calling cards. To know what sets it apart, its contribution to the infrastructure investment pipeline and to gain an insight into its contribution towards sustainable growth, R SRINIVASAN spoke to Virender Pankaj, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Aseem Infrastructure Finance. Excerpts:

Aseem Infrastructure Finance (AIFL) is registered with the RBI and has been granted the Certificate of Registration to deepen the infrastructure investment pipeline. How does the NIIF-backed shadow bank raise resources to fulfil its infrastructure financing needs?
When we started AIFL, we were clear that we are building an institution that has to sustain itself for over the next 100 years to come and that it has to be an infrastructure thought leader. For me, out of 32 years in the debt space, the last 20 have been dedicated to the infrastructure space, and so is the case with our highly skilled, deeply experienced specialist team...

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