impact
Ulrike Ziegler is president of impact, a non-profit association founded in early 2022 by leading financiers in Aviation. impact, a global platform, aims at promoting transparency on airlines' CO2 data, providing tangible KPIs to measure and track their carbon footprint and enhancing industry-wide discussion on sustainability. Ulrike has more than 20 years aviation experience and held senior positions at UniCredit Bank as Global Head of Aircraft Finance and at ING Germany as Head of Aviation. She has worked with airlines and lessors around the globe at various stages of their business development. Keen to facilitate change she has spearheaded major strategic projects at both UniCredit and ING. Ulrike has served as member of the Investment Committee at HSH Global Aircraft I from 2007 through 2017. Prior to her aviation career she has worked in Project Finance, Export Finance and Syndications
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As margins narrows in the traditional sale/leaseback market, this panel will gauge the appeal of deals on the more complex end of aviation’s value chain.
- What appetite is there among financiers and investors for green time leasing, midlife leasing and part out? How do their return expectations compare with what’s possible in the market?
- How can more capital be attracted to the space? Who is looking into it? Are new structures required?
- Are alt-lenders able to provide sufficient liquidity in lieu of adequate bank funding?
- How is the macroeconomic environment impacting funding? Is risk now being calculated differently given post-Covid market realities?
- If traditional bank lenders are not fully returning to the space, how attractive are longer term engine leases to alternative debt lenders?
