TXF: Indepth

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  • EIB-BBVA team up to back Spanish SMEs, head of grains at COFCO leaves trader, and Afreximbank inks $500m to boost Africa's cultural and creative products
    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 European Investment Bank (EIB) and Spain's BBVA are joining forces to provide financing on favourable terms for SMEs and mid-caps in the country
    Paul Bateson, head of grains at COFCO International since 2018, has left the Chinese-owned trading firm
    The African Export-Import Bank has announced $500 million to support the production and trade of African cultural and creative products over the next two years
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    6 min
  • Ecuadorian copper mine make first exports, EBRD appoints new Asia MD, and Trafi sets new 2020 emissions reduction target
    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 will set a target to reduce the intensity of its emissions this year
    Ecuador made its first export of 22,000 tonnes of copper concentrate from the Chinese-owned Mirador mine, marking a new milestone in the country’s effort to develop a large-scale mining industry
    Andre Küüsvek has been appointed as European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Managing Director for Central Asia
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    3 min
  • Tradeshift announces funding round; Reed Smith opens Brussels office; and Glencore inks cobalt shipping contract with Tesla in Shanghai
    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-based supply chain payments group Tradeshift has announced a funding round of $240 million in equity and debt, which it says will "set the company on a direct path to profitability in the near future"
    Reed Smith has announced the opening of an office in Brussels with the arrival of five partners
    Glencore is negotiating a long-term contract to ship cobalt to Tesla's new electric-vehicle factory in Shanghai
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    4 min
  • Mineral Resources acquires Inca Gold mine in Chile; Glencore Agri buys processing business from Renova; and UK and US predict recession in 2020, says Stenn for
    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:
    Vancouver-based Mirasol Resources has signed an option agreement with subsidiaries of Newmont Corporation to acquire the Inca Gold Project in Northern Chile
    Glencore Agriculture has bought a further 16.67% of Argentinian supply chain and processing business Renova, upping its stake to 66.67%, from Vicentin
    Just under half of firms in the UK (46%) and US (45%) predict their country will go into recession in 2020, while the Chinese economy is expected to maintain a solid 6%-7% growth rate, according to new research by trade finance provider Stenn
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    2 min
  • Saudi launches EOIs for sewage treatment plants, Societe Generale appoints new Germany head of global transaction banking, and Aramco exercises greenshoe IPO option
    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:
    Saudi Water Partnership Company (SWPC) has called for expressions of interest (EoI) for its next three independent sewage treatment projects (ISTPs) 
    Gabriele Schnell has been appointed head of global transaction banking for Germany for Societe Generale
    Saudi Aramco has exercised a greenshoe option to sell an additional 450 million shares, raising the volume of its IPO to a record $29.4 billion
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    4 min
  • Vale signs $3bn revolver, Taiwan drops FiT rate for offshore wind project, and Sirius Minerals in talks over sale to Anglo American
    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:
    Brazil-headquartered miner Vale has signed a $3 billion syndicated revolving credit facility, which will be available for five years
    Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has set its 20-year Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) for offshore wind projects signed in 2020 with rates falling by 7.6% from last year
    Sirius Minerals, which is developing the Woodsmith polyhalite fertiliser project in North Yorkshire, has confirmed that it has received a possible premium-priced takeover offer from Anglo American and is now in advanced talks with the miner.
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    5 min
  • Margarita Louis-Dreyfus borrows $1bn to buy out LDC minority shareholders, A&O's Christensen moves to US PENRI team, and Standard Chartered launches SC GPI Track
    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:
    Margarita Louis-Dreyfus borrowed $1 billion from Credit Suisse last year to buy out minority shareholders of Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), pledging her majority stake in the commodities trader as collateral, a company filing showed.
    Standard Chartered has launched SC GPI Track.
    Allen & Overy partner David Christensen has moved to the firm’s US Projects, Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure (PENRI) team in New York
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    5 min
  • First Quantum eyes Zambian copper mine expansion; Chexim and Garanti BBVA back Turkish firms importing from China; and Bunge ends interest in Iowa ethanol plant
    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:
    Canada's First Quantum is weighing up a $1bn copper mine expansion in Zambia for Africa’s biggest such mine
    Garanti BBVA and the Export-Import Bank of China (Chexim) have agreed a $300 million three-year loan to be used by Turkish companies to finance imports from China
    Bunge ended its 13-year ownership interest in an Iowa ethanol plan following industry struggles with thin margins and overproduction
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    3 min
  • UKEF appoints new trade finance head and Lake Resources appoints Gill as CFO
    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:
    UK Export Finance (UKEF) has appointed Carl Williamson to lead its Trade Finance Business
    Lithium explorer and developer Lake Resources has appointed experienced chief financial officer Garry Gill to help ensure funding of the company's planned initial lithium production at the Kachi and Cauchari  projects in Argentina
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    3 min
  • KDB launches Vietnam corporate arm; Bunge announces Q3 results; Afreximbank backs African FIs trade finance deals to VTB
    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:
    Korea Development Bank (KDB) is setting up a branch in Vietnam focused on corporate finance.
    Bunge has released its Q3 results - a net income loss of $1.49 billion for the quarter and $1.229 billion for the nine months ending September 30
    VTB Bank (Europe) and Afreximbank have signed an agreement under which Afreximbank will guarantee the fulfilment of obligations of African financial institutions on trade finance transactions
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    4 min

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