In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson covers the latest stories and trends across the market:

ENGIE, Meridiam and Senegalese sovereign fund FONSIS are set to reach financial close in Q2 2019

Barrick Gold, the world’s second-largest gold producer, has studied a bid for Newmont Mining as the Canadian mining giant looks for ways to boost production

Members of Japan's insurance and financial services sectors are teaming up in an effort to remove barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises to conduct trade with the US

Turk Eximbank has received a loan of $380.5 million from an international banking consortium led by the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC)

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