• Optimizing the Capital Stack with Bart White, EMEA Head of Energy Structured Finance at Santander Corporate and Investment Banking

  • Jul 1 2024
  • Length: 47 mins
  • Podcast

Optimizing the Capital Stack with Bart White, EMEA Head of Energy Structured Finance at Santander Corporate and Investment Banking

  • Summary

  • Co-hosts Chris Jackson and Alicia Eastman had the pleasure to interview Bart White of Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (SCIB). The discussion was mostly regarding optimizing different bespoke tools to accelerate the energy transition with some case examples provided by Bart. After the interview, Patrick Molloy stepped in to unpack and discuss some of the wide-ranging topics with the same rigor we have come to expect.

    About Bart White:

    Bart runs the SCIB Energy financing activities across EMEA and parts of Latin America. The team is primarily focused on financing and advisory for Renewables where Santander has ranked #1 in 2022, 2023 and 2024 YTD Europe). They are also involved in Hydrogen, CCS, BESS, Biogas, and other tangential subsectors such as EfW and Smart Meters.

    Previously, Bart ran the Santander UK and Nordics structured finance business, and before that he led the Santander European structured finance advisory practise. Bart has also worked at UBS leading their EMEA Utilities and Infrastructure Finance business, as well as RBS. Bart holds an MA in Physics from the University of Oxford.

    About SCIB:

    In 2023, Santander CIB was named global leader in export finance for the second year running and ended the year In 2023 as the world's leader in export finance, with transactions amounting to US$13.2 billion and a market share of 12.1%.

    The bank’s global scale and local knowledge of the sectors and markets where its clients operate has ensured Santander’s position on top of the ranking published by Dealogic, one of the most widely used tools for analysing the performance, trends, activity and market share of financial institutions.

    With this positioning, the Group demonstrates its ability to meet client needs globally in a tough landscape. Santander CIB reached the first position in Europe and is among the top 10 in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

    Credit insurance from ECAs and other multilateral institutions is one of the main means of financial support for international expansion. It helps companies obtain financing through specialised products with competitive terms and conditions that are tailored to their needs and mitigate the risks that their cross-border activities can pose.

    In recent years, Santander CIB has been developing its Export & Agency Finance (EAF) business, with the spotlight on import and export clients. It has contributed to the design of innovative products hand in hand with ECAs, combining global and local origination and structuring capabilities that underpin the franchise's success.

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    Links:

    www.santandercib.com

    https://www.santandercib.com/press-room/santander-cib-named-global-leader-export-finance-second-year-running

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