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Who finances Serbia’s biggest projects – ownership, influence and international capital

Behind every landmark development in Serbia stands a powerful financing structure. The country’s largest luxury, urban regeneration, hospitality and tourism projects are not shaped only by architecture and planning decisions. They are ultimately defined by the nature of the investors funding them, the institutions lending to them, and the influence structures embedded in their ownership and governance. Serbia’s development model today is driven by hybrid capital: strategic international investors, domestic conglomerates, European lenders, private equity, and structured public-private partnerships —…