The chief financial officer of the World Bank Group, Bertrand Badré, runs the rule over buyside appetite for infrastructure investment as he speaks with Financial News about efforts to fill the financing gap left by banks.

Speaking on the sidelines of the fifth annual World Pensions Forum in Paris, organised by the World Pensions Council on December 2 and 3, Badré also assessed the progress of the World Bank's own infrastructure venture, the Global Infrastructure Facility.