CEO of Natixis, in charge of Corporate & Investment Banking, Natixis Natixis Corporate Investment Banking
Search every verified Mohamed Kallala interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. At the 13th edition of Natixis Infraday in November 2024, Mohamed Kallala noted the need for more liquidity providers beyond banks and markets to address infrastructure investment requirements, stating that Europe must invest 800 billion euros annually, with 80% going to infrastructure. He remarked that governments are focused on providing relevant infrastructure to handle energy, renewable energy, data centers, and the digitalization of the economy. Kallala also described Natixis's strategy of acquiring controlling stakes in boutique advisory firms, citing recent additions in Belgium and the Netherlands. At the second edition of the private debt forum in September 2023, Kallala said private debt "covers almost everything" except equity and that Natixis CIB differentiates itself by keeping a significant portion of its underwriting on its balance sheet, which he described as a key difference from U.S. banks. He projected double-digit growth in private debt asset management over the following five years, while noting that raising new funds has become more difficult due to a decrease in the value of listed assets following a sharp increase in interest rates.
“Infrastructure is the key driver for all economies so all jurisdiction all governments are really thinking about how to provide to their country the relevant infrastructure of course to tackle I mean to to handle the issue on energy renewable energy energy even energy dot not only only renewable energy uh they need to...”
“Europe has to invest 800 billion a year on top of what we used to invest on a yearly basis mainly on infra you have a pocket for for the for defense but mainly infra 80% is infra uh so we need to find the cash to be invested in in from so we need to tap not only the bond market or the bank balance sheet there's not eno...”
“Private debt actually it covers almost everything... we keep aside equity and and now Texas the CIB of the group bpce and bpce the fourth European Bank 75 billion core Equity Chowan is a bank with a dead DNA it goes from retail different assets class asset classes of debt of retail of course to corporate and then to re...”
“even if I think that the asset and the management for the private debt will definitely grow a double digit and even more than double in the coming five years... we're going to have a competition between the different private for one single one simple reason is that it's really difficult today to Rise new funds... for t...”
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