TXF: Indepth

TXF: Indepth

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  • Mozambique's TREP project seals funds, Horizonte Minerals signs royalty agreement with ferro-nickel mine, and Demica launches Saudi British's SCF platform
    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:
    Funding for the development of the $543 million Temane Regional Electricity Project (TREP) in Mozambique has been secured, the government, Electricidade de Moçambique
    Horizonte Minerals, a nickel company focused in Brazil, has signed a royalty agreement with Orion Mine Finance to provide funding to advance its Araguaia ferro-nickel project.
    Working capital solutions provider Demica has successfully launched Saudi British Bank’s (SABB) supply chain finance platform, enabling the bank to offer payables finance to their clients.
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    3 min
  • Louis Dreyfus signs sustainability-linked RCF, World Bank cancel $212m loan to Kenya, and BharatPe raises $50m in Series B funding
    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:
    India-based fintech BharatPe has raised $50 million in Series B funding led by US-based Ribbit Capital
    A $212 million loan from the World Bank to the Kenyan Government for road works has been cancelled
    Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) has renewed its $650 million revolving credit facility in Asia, which incorporates for the first time a sustainability-linked pricing mechanism
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    3 min
  • HSBC seals debut blockchain deal via we.trade, Jubilee Metals acquires Zimbabwe zinc mine from Glencore, and Petrobras' refinery privatisation spate lures bids from oil majors
    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:
    HSBC has successfully completed its first blockchain transaction on we.trade, a digital platform that allows payments between banks and enterprises in Europe,
    Jubilee Metals has completed its acquisition of Sable Zinc Kabwe from Glencore for up to $12 million
    Brazil’s planned privatisation of eight Petrobras refineries has lured several of the world’s largest trading and oil companies as prospective bidders,
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    3 min
  • Rock Rail and JII seals rolling stock financing, Bolsonaro looks to privatise Petrobras, and Standard Bank joins Marco Polo
    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:
     
    Rock Rail and Japan Infrastructure Initiative (JII) has signed the £400 million rolling stock financing backing a new fleet of intercity Hitachi trains on the East Midlands franchise in the UK
     The economic team of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to privatize state-controlled oil company Petrobras before the end of his term in 2022
    Johannesburg-headquartered Standard Bank has joined the Marco Polo Network, which aims to bring efficiencies to trade financing
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    3 min
  • Rosneft looks to de-dollarise oil product tenders, Advance Power-led consortium out to banks to refi CCGT plant in US, and EU probes Facebook's Libra digital currency project
    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:
    Russian oil producer and exporter Rosneft has notified customers that future tender contracts for oil products will be denominated in euros not dollars as early as this year
    Advance Power is out to banks to refinance the outstanding construction debt stapled to the 1.584 billion 1.2GW combined-cycle gas-fired (CCGT) Cricket Valley Energy Center in Dover, New York.
    European Union antitrust regulators are already probing Facebook two-month-old Libra digital currency project
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    3 min
  • Venture Global LNG seals Calcasieu Pass LNG project financing, Hastings Technology Metals granted approval for rare earths project in Australia, and Wyelands appoints Turrell to asset finance team
    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:
    Venture Global LNG has closed the project financing for the company's Calcasieu Pass LNG facility and associated TransCameron pipeline in Cameron Parish, Louisiana
    New South Wales-headquartered Hastings Technology Metals has been granted environmental approval for its Yangibana rare earths project in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia
    Wyelands Bank, set up to help small and medium-sized enterprises, has appointed Mark Turrell to its asset finance team
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    3 min
  • ING seals first commodity deal on blockchain-based platform, Santander ups Ripple tech usage, and MUFG hires Bazzana
    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:
    ING has successfully executed its first commodity transaction on Komgo, the blockchain-based platform that transmits commodity transactions in a secure environment
    Spain's Santander Group is expanding its use of Ripple’s technology
    Alberto Mihelcic Bazzana has been hired by MUFG as vice president of Americas project finance for the oil and gas sector
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    3 min
  • Thai Exim rolls out liquidity enhancement scheme, Alibaba upgrades wholesale business, and HFW launches Monaco office
    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:
    Alibaba Group Holding is upgrading its wholesale business by adding a new sourcing channel to better facilitate cross-border trade
    Thai Exim Bank as introduced a liquidity enhancement scheme for exporters by unveiling a credit facility to customers affected by global economic volatility and recording sales shrinkage of 15% or more
    Law firm HFW is launching an office in Monaco with the hire of a team to be led by partners Ian Cranston, Andrew Charlier and Marco Crusafio.
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    3 min
  • ExxonMobil plans £1.6bn sale of North Sea oil and gas, and Santa Isabel solar PV reaches FC Liberty Specialty Markets appoints new underwriter, and
    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:
    ExxonMobil is planning a retreat from the North Sea with a £1.6 billion ($2 billion) sale of its oil and gas fields after almost 50 years in the UK’s oil basin
    Liberty Specialty Markets has appointed James Goodliffe to the role of Senior Underwriting Officer within its Financial Risk Solutions Multi-Buyer Trade Credit practice
    The 190MWdc Santa Isabel solar PV project in Chile has reached full financial close on a $250 million DFI-backed loan to finance the scheme
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    3 min
  • Nachtigal hydro plant deal analysis, Glencore loses bid to stop ATO using Paradise Papers to assess tax bill, and Bank of Georgia signs trade finance loan with Citi for SMEs
    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:
    Nachtigal set the financing template for hydro in Cameroon in late 2018. Now a very ambitious project more than four times the size of Nachtigal is underway, but is it too much too soon in terms of bankability?
    Glencore has lost its case to prevent the Australian Tax Office (ATO) using information that was leaked as part of the Paradise Papers to assess its tax obligations
    Bank of Georgia has signed a one-year $50 million trade finance facility with Citi for small and medium-sized firms across the country
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    3 min

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