• Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited and BlueMount Capital execute Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate
• The MOU sets out the basis for collaboration to secure international finance and investments for selected infrastructure and green technology projects
• The Parties will target several major projects for international financing

Bangladesh Infrastructure Finance Fund Limited (BIFFL), one of the major government-owned non-bank financial institutions focused largely on infrastructure projects and BlueMount Capital, an Australian-headquartered corporate finance house signed an MOU to collaborate on international financing of infrastructure and green projects in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh’s GDP has grown at a rate of 7% per annum for the past 10 years and the country has enormous infrastructure financing requirement to meet its goal of becoming a middle-income country by 2021 and achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by 2030.

BIFFL has already financed 40 projects in Bangladesh and have a robust project pipeline at different stages of development.

Traditionally, Bangladesh has utilised soft-loan funds from the Asian Development Bank, World Bank and similar international finance institutions.

Under the MOU, BlueMount Capital will work with BIFFL on corporate and commercial investment and financing channels.

The Parties will cooperate to secure support from the Bangladesh Government for guarantees and appropriate incentives, in applicable cases, to attract international investment.

“We are pleased with this initiative to broaden our inbound investment channels with an international corporate finance house such as BlueMount Capital,” said the Executive Director and CEO of BIFFL Mr S.M. Formanul Islam.

“Bangladesh has several attractive infrastructure and energy projects ranging in scale and stages of development,

“We have more than US$ 2 billion of investment and financing opportunities for infrastructure and energy projects” said Mr Islam.

BlueMount Capital Chairman Dr Saliba Sassine said the group is looking forward to working closely with BIFFL and to promoting investment opportunities to international investment houses focused on emerging markets or energy and infrastructure opportunities.

“Bangladesh location makes it a strategic bridge between South Asia and South East Asia,” said Dr Sassine.

“Combined this with strong growth over the past decade, a liberal and multi-party system of government and a good mix of skills and education among its workforce, Bangladesh is well poised to become a strong Tiger Economy.”

BIFFL and BlueMount aim to action their efforts in early 2019 with a selection of opportunities.

BlueMount Capital is pleased to advise that we have been appointed Corporate Advisor by Qponics Limited.

Qponics Limited is a Brisbane based company focused on the sustainable production of EPA Omega-3 oils and other high-value products from Australian strains of algae.

The Company is planning to upgrade the existing pilot algae farm, to purchase a property for its commercial algae farm and submitting the DA and preparing to list on a suitable Australian stock exchange via an IPO in 2019.

The upgraded pilot algae farm in Brisbane and Qponics’ largescale algae farm to be built on the proposed 167.5 ha site at South Ballina will sustainably produce algae, from which omega-3 oil and high-protein biomass as a by-product will be extracted, integrating state-of-the-art technologies to maximise automation and minimise operational costs.

Our assignment will comprise being the corporate advisor, and raising funds now for a pre-IPO raising of $7M immediately followed by an IPO in 2019. For more information please click here or contact us.

Dr Mark Rainbird
Managing Director
BlueMount Capital

BlueMount Capital has been appointed as Corporate Advisor to PROJECT ENERGISE. The client carbonTRACK has developed advanced and innovative software and hardware which allows users to monitor, manage and optimize their energy usage, maximising savings and even allowing users to trade and arbitrage energy.

With its head office located in Melbourne, carbonTRACK commenced operations in 2015. Since then this award winning technology has been deployed in Australia New Zealand and Africa. Funds are now being raised to expand current operations and to support entry and growth in the U.S.A.

BlueMount Capital will lead the raising of $10m. An Investment Deck and Information Memorandum are now available and further details can be accessed on this website.

BlueMount Capital Sydney has partnered with a leading private non-bank lender with a capital pool of $1.3B for commercial property developers that specialises in loans from $1M to $200M.

In 2017 the lender settled $1.8B in loans and looks set to exceed $2B in the financial year to June 2018. Developments can be both residential or commercial in any state with a preference for capital cities or larger regional centres.

Loans are available for property developers for the following types of projects;

• Bridging finance
• Construction finance
• Commercial Property purchases and refinance
• Residential Property where the funds are used for commercial purposes
• Land Banking for developers
• Development Sites

Rates start from 6.5% plus line & establishment fees. 

Initial Documentation Required 

• Overview of the project with key metrics summarised
• Valuation if available. An old report will suffice. If a valuation is not available, please provide the address and estimated value.
• Copy of the contract of sale (if acquisition).
• Details (lender and outstanding balance) of any mortgages currently on the property.
• Feasibility study for the project – for a construction loan only
• Level of presales achieved to date. – for a construction loan only

For more information or to make an application contact Ross McDowall in the Sydney office.

“In conjunction with BlueMount Capital’s Melbourne office, I am delighted to announce we have secured more than AUD 39 million in debt funding for a leading Melbourne based manufacturing group.

The funds will be used to finalise the purchase of a new factory as well as providing flexible growth oriented banking facilities. The funding includes a range of facilities such as business loans; equipment, trade and invoice finance as well as an overdraft and credit card facilities.

BlueMount Capital worked closely with the new funder and the client to secure the facilities which include more flexible covenants and guarantee arrangements while providing competitive interest rates on all products offered.”

Dr Mark Rainbird
Managing Director
BlueMount Capital

BlueMount Capital was featured in the recent Australia & New Zealand Business Report 2017 in the South China Morning Post.

You can read the full text of the story on the South China Morning Post’s website or download the Australia & New Zealand Business Report 2017

Len McDowall representing BlueMount Capital was privileged to attend the welcome ceremony at the Westin Hotel to welcome Premier Li to Sydney.

Premier Li was welcomed by Australian Prime Minister Turnbull and many senior government ministers.

Australia and China found unprecedented common ground during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang’s visit to Australia this week.
Premier Li and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull are statesmen united in opposition to a common foe: trade protectionism. Addressing an economic forum in Sydney, neither mentioned the United States or President Donald Trump by name but the subtext was as clear as the symbolism.

With President Trump pledging to protect US business against foreign competition, Australia is being positioned as a partner in China’s opportunistic campaign to be seen as the new defender of globalisation and free trade champion of the world.

The Prime Minister told a ballroom packed with businesspeople and politicians at the Westin Hotel that “the cooperation between China and Australia showcases to the region and the world our determination to defend trade liberalisation and advocate the benefits of free trade.”

Premier Li Keqiang greets Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the Australia China Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum in Sydney. Photo: Brendon Thorne

Premier Li, following Mr Turnbull at the podium, matched his rhetoric, then raised it. He said the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (ChAFTA) would “show to our region and the world that free trade will deliver benefits to all human beings”.

“If China and Australia join hands they will not only bring benefits to the people, but also to the region, to show the world that … with the example of our co-operation, by working together we will move forward and promote greater progress of mankind.”

Mr Turnbull said he had spoken with Premier Li about working together to conclude the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, the rival China-led 16-member initiative excluding the US which has usurped the TPP as the front runner for new free trade deals in the region.

Symbolism: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Premier Li are united in opposition to trade protectionism. Photo: Brendon Thorne

According to Hugh White, professor of strategic studies at the ANU, this is how America’s long era of leadership in Asia comes to an end.
“As a result of Mr Trump’s approach, Australia will drift away from America and move closer to China,” he wrote in The New York Times. “That does not mean we Australians will become Beijing’s ally, but it does mean we will begin tacitly to acquiesce to China’s claims to regional leadership.”

“It is an opportunity for China to rhetorically and symbolically look like it is building closer relations with Australia and the US for the time being is on the outer,” said Merriden Varrall, director of the East Asia program at the Lowy Institute.

China is Australia’s largest trading partner with two way trade in 2015/16 valued at $150 billion. The headline deal of Premier Li’s visit allows unfettered access for Australian beef to the Chinese market which is expected expand exports of chilled beef especially from the current $1 billion worth