TXF: Indepth

TXF: Indepth

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  • British Airways agrees to £1bn credit facility from UKEF; JBIC to end financing new coal power by end-2021; Etihad Credit Insurance in pact with FAB to boost funding UAE exporters

    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:

    British Airways has agreed to a five-year committed credit facility worth £1 billion with UK Export Finance and a syndicate of banks

  • The Japan Bank for International Cooperation has announced that it will stop financing new unabated coal power projects by the end of this year to to align with an agreement made by the Group of Seven nations earlier this year.  

  • Etihad Credit Insurance, the UAE’s federal export credit agency, has signed an agreement with First Abu Dhabi Bank and Crediti Fintech to help boost funding for UAE exporters. 

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    3 min
  • G7 countries reach breakthrough on digital trade and data; Trafigura closes $2.4bn-equivalent RCF, term loan facilities; Finacity, DZ Bank launch receivables securitization for Nitron

    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:

    • Trafigura Group Pte has closed its new Syndicated Revolving Credit Facility and Term Loan Facilities at $2.4 billion-equivalent
  • The G7 nations have agreed on principles to govern cross-border data use and digital trade
  • Finacity and DZ Bank have launched a $150 million trade receivables securitization for Connecticut-based Nitron Group
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    4 min
  • Biden nominates Parisa Salehi for US Exim Inspector General role; Asia LNG spot price surges by 40% to record high; Zurich exits CPRI market

    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:

    US President Joe Biden has nominated Parisa Salehi for Inspector General of the Export-Import Bank of the United States

  • Asia liquefied natural gas spot prices surged by 40% to a record high of over $56 per million British thermal units on Wednesday, amid a global energy crunch, low gas inventories and mounting supply concerns

  • Zurich has ceased its short-term Credit & Political Risk (CPRI) insurance offering with immediate effect, according to sources

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    3 min
  • Glencore taps Morgan Stanley trader to start European power desk; XinFin and Tradeteq launch first trade finance-based NFT transaction; ArcelorMittal and EIB sign €280m research and innovation loan

    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:

    Trafigura and PetroChina placed the lowest offers in the Pakistan LNG tender
  • Argentine potash mine PRC is opening a tender for investment banks to help find a partner to restart operations, a decade after Brazil's Vale shelved the project when prices crashed for the crop nutrient and the firm clashed with the country's government over tax breaks.

  • Trade credit insurer Euler Hermes has announced two changes in its Regional Management teams

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    4 min
  • Trafigura, PetroChina place lowest offers in Pakistan LNG tender; PRC to open tender for investment bank as it seeks restart; Euler Hermes unveils regional management changes

    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:

    Trafigura and PetroChina placed the lowest offers in the Pakistan LNG tender
  • Argentine potash mine PRC is opening a tender for investment banks to help find a partner to restart operations, a decade after Brazil's Vale shelved the project when prices crashed for the crop nutrient and the firm clashed with the country's government over tax breaks.

  • Trade credit insurer Euler Hermes has announced two changes in its Regional Management teams

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    3 min
  • ADB agrees $1.78bn facility for Dhaka–Sylhet trade route project; Miller hires Laurent Hepner to Swiss CPRI team; EBRD steps up trade support with Turk Ekonomi Bankasi

    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:

    The Asian Development Bank has approved a $1.78 billion multitranche financing facility to improve mobility, road safety, and regional trade along the Dhaka–Sylhet trade corridor in Bangladesh

  • Miller has hired business development specialist Laurent Hepner to its Credit and Political Risk insurance team

  • The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is supporting exporters and importers in Turkey by providing $50 million in trade finance to Turk Ekonomi Bankasi (TEB) under the EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme.

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    3 min
  • JBIC helps finance new India plant for ATC Tires AP; Surecomp awarded SWIFT 2021 accreditation; HSBC joins Walmart initiative to boost working capital access

    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:

    JBIC helps finance new India plant for ATC Tires AP

  • Surecomp has secured the 2021 SWIFT certification for its trade finance solutions to support the processing of bank guarantees and documentary collections between banks around the world

  • HSBC Bank USA has become Walmart’s first banking collaborator supporting its initiative to improve access to working capital.

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    4 min
  • EBRD approves €250m loan for Egypt’s Abu Qir metro project; WFW hires commodities disputes partner in Singapore; EIB enables Berenberg Bank to expand SME lending

    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:

    The EBRD has approved a formal loan request from the Egyptian government for €250 million (about $297 million) to partially fund a project to convert Alexandria’s Abu Qir railway into an underground metro

  • Watson Farley & Williams has appointed commodities disputes specialist Sumeet Malhotra as a Partner in Singapore

  • The European Investment Bank will provide loan-by-loan guarantees covering 75% of a portfolio of up to €250 million of the German private bank Berenberg

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    3 min
  • New Norwegian ECA Eksfin is up and running; Rio Tinto commits $2.4bn for Jadar lithium project; ICC announces new appointments

    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:

    Oslo-headquartered Export Finance Norway (Eksfin) - which was formed from a merger between former government agencies GIEK and Export Credit Norway - has opened its doors and is fully operational

  • Rio Tinto has committed $2.4bn for the Jadar lithium project

  • The International Chamber of Commerce has announced a number of new appointments to lead the work of its Banking Commission, including Lynn Ng - of ING - who becomes new Commission Chair. 

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    3 min
  • EAIF, AfDB help fund €174m hydropower project in Ivory Coast; Afreximbank, BAFT hold training workshops on correspondent banking in Africa; Greensill inquiry concludes no need for SCF reform

    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:

    The Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund is lending €25 million over 18 years to Ivoire Hydro Energy (IHE), which will build a 44MW hydro electricity generation plant on the Bandama River near the village of Singrobo, in Côte d’Ivoire

  • The US Justice Department is investigating Connecticut-based trading house Freepoint Commodities over whether payments to employees of Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras broke US laws, two sources said

  • On 14 July, a UK Parliamentary Select Committee published its report on the lessons from the collapse of Greensill Capital after taking extensive evidence from the parties involved, including founder and chief executive Lex Greensill and former Prime Minister David Cameron, who had later become an advisor to the company

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    3 min

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