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:

ACWA Power is planning a move into solar panel production

Olivier Delay has been appointed as Natixis’ new CEO of Americas CIB, effective 1 March 2019.

Russia is preparing an investment in Bitcoin to replace the US dollar as a reserve currency in a bid to tackle US sanctions

Vancouver-based GoldQuest Mining has appointed Dave Massola as chief executive officer (CEO)

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