What is project finance relevance amid interest rate cycles? With central banks pausing hikes, refinancing risk for long-term projects is reduced, which helped infrastructure ETFs gain 2.8% over the last 30 days. Largent, who before joining Perpetua in 2021 was vice president of investor relations at Newmont, will remain as adviser to the new finance chief through the end of the year to help with the transition and to support ongoing project financing efforts, the Idaho-based company said. “Looking ahead, we need to see a much faster pace of growth in the stock of renewable power plants and distributed electricity generation around the world,” said IRENA’s Director General, Francesco La Camera, in the agency’s Renewable Capacity Statistics 2025 report. 1 What is project finance from a trader’s angle? When firms announce new financed projects, sentiment analysis often detects bullish spikes, such as last week’s +2.5% movement in infrastructure ETFs following toll-road financing news.