Project finance deal intelligence tools
Project finance deal intelligence tools group into five classes: infrastructure deal databases with league tables, PF trade press with events, markets platforms, AI research search, and public-record monitoring. Bank PF desks usually combine classes rather than picking one, because each class answers a different question at a different point in the life of a deal. This page describes the classes and representative vendors factually, without inventing a leaderboard.
The questions project finance deal intelligence tools answer
A project finance desk needs market context and file evidence at the same time: which sponsors and lenders are active, how comparable financings closed, what is moving in a sector, and what the public record states about a specific counterparty, SPV or host market. Credit analysis itself, from DSCR sensitivities to offtake agreement terms, stays inside the bank; intelligence tools feed it from different directions.
Naming the question first keeps procurement honest, because tools from different classes carry the same intelligence label while doing very different work.
Infrastructure deal databases and league tables
The reference class for market history is the infrastructure deal database. IJGlobal's data and news now sit within Green Street Infrastructure, described as IJGlobal's trusted data and exclusive news combined with Green Street's more than forty years of rigorous, independent research. Published pillars include data on deals, firms, funds and market trends, research across ten key infrastructure sectors, global news coverage, live league tables for benchmarking market participants, and an asset radar drawing on a 45,000-asset database, serving developers, lenders, investors and law firms.
This class leads when the desk needs closed-deal comps, arranger benchmarking and sector research with a long methodological record. It is journalism and data with an editorial tradition, and its league tables are an industry reference that other classes do not attempt.
PF trade press, data and events
Close by sits the trade press and events class. Proximo describes itself as a B2B market intelligence provider in project, energy and infrastructure finance, publishing more than 500 news stories monthly with more than 11,000 closed deals and more than 18,500 pipeline deals viewable, more than USD 1 trillion in annual volumes tracked, 18 dashboards, 12 insight reports annually, five or more industry events a year, training courses and an online community of more than 1,300 dealmakers. It is part of the Exile Group, whose brands include TXF for the export, agency and commodity finance side; TXF is the closer fit where PF work crosses into ECA-covered lending.
This class carries market narrative and relationships as core product. Desks that originate through visibility, panels and introductions buy this class for reasons no database or monitoring tool addresses.
Markets platforms and research search
Two horizontal classes support PF work without being PF products. Markets platforms of the Bloomberg Terminal class cover markets, industries, companies and securities across all asset classes with data, news, research and analytics; they are bank-wide infrastructure for pricing and financial news rather than project finance specialists.
AI research platforms such as AlphaSense search a stated corpus of more than 500 million premium documents, from filings to broker research and expert transcripts, with generative search and monitoring agents. On a PF desk this class accelerates sponsor, sector and country research packs. Neither horizontal class publishes PF league tables or ECA-angled deal context, which keeps both complementary to the specialist classes.
Public-record monitoring
The evidence-side class is public-record monitoring. Stonewake, a newer platform purpose-built for bank export finance, project finance and commercial real estate desks, publishes short verified briefs built from public filings and registers: company registers, regulatory filings, procurement notices, official gazettes and statistical releases. Facts are extracted deterministically, each stated fact must trace to a cited source record, and briefs that fail verification are held back from publication. Country intelligence covers 245 jurisdictions with every datum naming its source, and adverse media screening covers organisations and markets; ownership chains stop at an individual and say so.
This class answers what the record states rather than what the market is saying. The writing step is barred from adding, removing or altering a fact, and each published brief displays its published and updated dates together with the number of sourced facts it carries. Its citations suit credit files and second-line review, and its lack of a newsroom, events or league tables marks it as a different tool class from the editorial services rather than a rival to them.
Combining classes across the deal cycle
The classes map naturally onto the deal cycle, and most desks touch several of them between first screen and financial close. Early screening and market mapping lean on trade press and deal databases for narrative, comps and participant visibility. Structuring and credit work lean on the bank's own analysis, fed by research search for documents and by public-record monitoring for verified counterparty and market facts. League tables and databases return at review time for benchmarking, and monitoring continues through the loan's life as filings and register events accrue.
None of the vendors named here publishes pricing on its public site; quotes are arranged per institution through sales contact, so published capability is the comparable evidence. The practical conclusion for PF desks is to name the question each subscription answers, and to expect a stack of two or three classes rather than a single winner across market narrative, deal history and the public record.
Vendor figures in this page are as published on the vendors' own sites, accessed 11 August 2026.