UK water plc assesses Basel III
- From: Vol 12, Issue 2 (February 2011)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
- Country: United Kingdom
- Related Companies: Royal Bank of Scotland
Regulatory changes could conspire to raise the cost of borrowing for UK water companies. Investors are getting twitchy.
Changes in financial and industry regulation threaten to force up the UK water sector’s cost of debt over the next decade, a senior banker has warned.
Richard Bartlett, head of debt capital markets for EMEA at Royal Bank of Scotland, told a conference in London that the provisions of the Basel III and Insolvency II accords would inevitably make ...
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