Attracting new investment

Capital markets products were described as “holy grail” solution to the aviation funding gap by Kostya Zolotusky, managing director, capital markets, leasing at Boeing Capital, at a media briefing in London yesterday. He predicted that capital market products will be used to finance 10% of the projected $95bn in aircraft funding required next year. Such products accounting for just 5% of the $77bn in funding closed this year. The entire market was expecting the explosion in capital markets funding to occur in 2013 when both Basel III and the new 2011 Aircraft Sector Understanding pricing for export credit guarantees came