While measures like take-out financing arrangement with IIFCL/other financial institutions, issue of long-term bonds by banks to the extent of their exposure to the  BIS Review 25/2010  13  infrastructure sector and certain relaxations in single/group borrower limits for infrastructure financing are already in place, banks face difficulty in meeting the increasing demand for infrastructure finance.
For example, the share of total financial sector assets held by banks in the Euro Area has fallen by around a third since the period before the financial crisis.3 The share of new borrowing by companies in the EU through market-based financing has almost doubled over the same period.4 And the share of commercial real estate assets held by investment funds has also doubled across the Euro Area over the past decade.5 So market-based finance has been growing in Europe, a trend that is also mirrored internationally, with potential benefits for the economy as a whole.