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:

Indonesia’s state-owned electricity utility PLN has announced plans to terminated around 24 renewable IPP projects around the country if project developers do not reach financial close by June 2019.

Australia’s OceanaGold has withdrawn from two exploration projects in Argentina in which spent about $4.5 million over the past two years as explorations results have not met the miner's expectations

The UK economy could grow faster than its German counterpart this year if it can avoid a no-deal Brexit, according to Euler Hermes

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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:

Royal Dutch Shell Nigerian unit agreed a $200 million deal with United Bank for Africa to help its local vendors and suppliers access project finance

Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals scored a big win this week after the US Forest Service approved the company’s mine plan of operations for its $1.9 billion Rosemont copper project in Arizona

Invoice fraud cost UK businesses £93 million last year, according to new figures

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Sponsors of the West Dammam sewage treatment plant in Saudi Arabia - Metito, Mowah and Orascom - are sounding out banks over the coming months for $180 million of project debt to fund the scheme

Macarthur Minerals has entered into a binding Life-of-Mine Off-Take Agreement with Glencore for sale of iron ore to be produced from the Lake Giles Iron Project at Lake Giles in the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

UniCredit has completed its first Italian transaction via blockchain-based trading platform we.trade

India's JSW Steel has raised $700 million via a landmark cash-for-metal pre-payment deal with Swiss-based trader Duferco International

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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:

State-run Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) has reach full financial close today (March 21) on a $3.8 billion ECA-backed loan to finance the expansion of the Sitra oil refinery.

BRICS bank will lend up to $780 million to South Africa's Eskom

 

Ghana’s Cocobod has signed a $300 million three-year loan with several international lenders to refinance central bank-raised cocoa bills and finance production enhancement programs.

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Poly-GCL Petroleum, is looking to raise a blend of commercial bank and ECA/DFI-backed debt to finance construction of the $312 million 767km Ethiopia-Djibouti natural gas pipeline

Brazil's state-controlled oil company Petrobras has named Andrea Marques de Almeida, an engineer and former executive at mining company Vale SA, as its new chief financial officer

SocGen has launched SWIFT gpi in nine new countries

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First State Investments is expected to refinance the outstanding debt packages stapled to its 863MW Finerge wind farm portfolio and the 171.6MW Ancora wind farm portfolio in Iberia by the end of the month.

The EIB has signed an $18m loan to finance rooftop PV project for schools in Palestine

The Competition Tribunal has approved the merger between Glencore South Africa Oil Investment and the local division of Chevron, Glencore SA, will acquire 75% of the issued share capital of Chevron from OTS, a broad-based black economic empowerment consortium

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Bids for the 500MW Dunkirk offshore wind tender are due today (15 March).

Adrian Newell has joined Rabobank as senior council and will be based in London. Newell will be working as part of the trade and commodity finance team.

The EBRD and EU have launched an SME credit line in Ukraine

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The proposed move of GE Capital’s SCF programme to MUFG raises many questions. How does 'porting' SCF from one provider work (or not), and what makes a corporate choose a bank over a non-bank provider (or otherwise)? What happens to the long tail? TXF spoke to banks and platform providers to gauge their views.

Trafigura has signed a $2.05bn multi-currency RCF

Ontario has launched a C$30bn 10-year infra programme

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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:

Crowell & Moring has boosted its international trade practice

Sirius Minerals is considering an alternative financing proposal for the UK potash mine

GasLog Partners, which owns, operates and acquires liquefied natural gas carriers, has closed a credit facility for up to $450 million with a tenor of five years.

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Dutch SME lender Finturi raises €2m of funding from NetSam Participaties

Turk Eximbank has inked a $350m loan with China’s ICBC

Russian aluminium producer Rusal has posted a fourth-quarter net loss but reiterated its positive industry outlook following the lifting of US sanctions on the company in January

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