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The Global Fund for Cities Developments (Le Fonds Mondial pour le Développement des Villes, FMDV) has published an article written by Lars M Andersson. The article is about the question of how the concept of local government funding agencies (LGFA) could be applied in developing countries.

Read the article on FMDV’s website 

Read a Spanish version of the article

The advisors (Aidan Brady, Lars M Andersson and Francis Breedon) delivered their report last week. The Local Government Association (LGA) has then, last Thursday, decided to move forward with its plans to create a Municipal Bond Agency. In an interview with Room 151, Sir Merrick Cockell, chairman of LGA, said: ”The huge potential for reducing local government’s borrowing bill by introducing diversity and a council-owned competitor into our lending market is too big to ignore.”

Lars M Andersson has been appointed to be a member of the Supervisory Board of Agence France Locale – Société Opérationnelle. He is also the chairman of the Strategy Committee within the Board.

The English LGA has appointed advisors for the con-tinuation of their project to create a Municipal Bond Agency.  Aidan Brady is the lead advisor. He has many years experience of senior executive positions in banks, including Deutsche Bank.

Lars M Andersson and Professor Francis Breedon, professor of economics and finance at Queen Mary University of London will act as strategic advisors.

Read the press release here

Read article in Public Finance here

After coming back from Paris

and some very interesting meetings,

I wish you all A Happy New Year

– Lars

Municipal Journal have in an article, written by Jonathan Werran, reported about the LGA’s decision to continue to develop a British bond agency. In relation to this, Lars M Andersson was interviewed. Read the article here.

The English Local Government Association issued a press release last Friday, where the following is written:

”The cross-party executive of the Local Government Association, which represents councils in England and Wales, has voted unanimously in favour of pursuing the plan following 18 councils making formal expressions of interest in the creation of a Municipal Bonds Agency to rival those already in operation in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and France.”

The local authorities that have stated their commitment to work with the LGA to develop the agency, are presented in the press release. They are:

• Birmingham City Council
• Cambridgeshire County Council
• Cheshire West and Chester Council
• City of London Corporation
• East Dunbartonshire Council
• Ipswich Borough Council
• Lancashire County Council
• London Borough of Lewisham
• London Borough of Southwark
• London Borough of Sutton
• London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
• Newcastle City Council
• Rochford District Council
• Stevenage Borough Council
• South Cambridgeshire District Council
• Warrington Borough Council
• Westminster City Council
• Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Read the press release here.

Municipal Journal has published an article, written by Lars M Andersson, about the role of local government funding agencies and how they support local authorities in their infrastructure investment activities, so urgently needed to achieve growth. Beside this article, Sir Merrick Cockell, chairman of the LGA, has written a piece about the efforts in Britain to create an agency, with the headline ”A commercial breakthrough?”.

Read the first part of the article here

Read the second part of the article and Sir Merrick Cockell’s article  here.