Promoters generally found the Bank's techno-economic and financial appraisals helpful in validating both their decision to go down the PPP route, and the structure selected for the project. Similarly, other lenders to the projects had a high opinion of the EIB's project appraisal process, especially in the economic and engineering fields. In some cases this made it easier for commercial bankers to get their own internal credit approvals and was especially helpful where the commercial bank loan underwriters were placing their loans in the syndication market. The effect was most obvious where the loan was the first of its type in the market.