Lars M. Andersson is guest-columnist on the Innovation Blog of the New Local Governemntal Network UK. Read his entry on ”Local Authorities and Risk” here.
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On cross-guarantees at the Innovation Blog of NLGN
Lars M. Andersson has appeared as a guest-columnist on the Innovation Blog of the New Local Governemntal Network UK with an entry on the question of ”cross-guarantees” and Local Government Funding Agencies. Read the text in full here.
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NLGN report: Capital Futures – Local capital finance options in an age of recovery
The British think-tank New Local Government Network (NLGN) launched last Wednesday (Dec 8, 2011) their report Capital Futures at an event at RICS, Parliament Square, Westminster, London.
The report is written by Tom Symons, NLGN, as a result of a project that started during spring this year. Lars M. Andersson has participated in the project by a presentation given at a seminar in London in July, where he spoke about financial cooperation between municipalities and by giving comments on the report before it was finalised.
The background to this project is the need to find new ways of financing local investments in a situation where the local authorities are experiencing big cuts in capital grants and the Public Works Loan Board have raises their margins substantially. In the project report one can, for example, find chapters on bond finance, retail bonds and local government funding agencies.
At the event Tom Symons presented the report and short speeches were given by, among others:
Lord Shipley, Vice-president of the Local Government Association
Edward Twiddy, Head of Local Government and the Regions, HM Treasury
Rt. Hon Hilary Benn MP, Shadow Secretary of State, CLG
It was a great interest for the event with presence from ministries, local governments, banks and auditing firms.
The report can be ordered from NLGN’s website.
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UK Local Government Funding Agency
The think tank New Local Government Network in the United Kingdom has posted an article that I have written on their blog. The title of the article is: ’A UK Local Government Fuding Agency – would it be possible?’
Here is a link to the article:
http://www.nlgn.org.uk/public/2011/a-uk-local-government-funding-agency-–-would-it-be-possible/
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NLGN research seminar in London
Lars M. Andersson has been invited to deliver a presentation at a research seminar in London on July 14th, organised by the think-tank New Local Government Network. The topic for the seminar is ”Capital Futures: assessing the alternatives – post-PWLB borrowing options for local authorities in the UK”.
As one of the starting point for this discussion, Tom Symons, Senior Researcher at the NLGN, has written a report named ”Localist Capital Finance – the challenges ahead” where he asks the following:
“In addition to understanding the variety of approaches that may be needed, we need to examine what the structures of the debt vehicles that can enable this will look like. How could a Kommuninvest-style vehicle be developed in England and how could it relate to councils and capital debt markets? Similarly, how best can individual local authorities access capital markets independently?“
Link to the event on NLGN’s website
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