TXF: Indepth

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 IFC has invested $288m in Brazil's GNA I thermal power plant

From the first sustainability-linked loan in Asia to the world’s first digital loan, Olam International's fundraising innovations in the agri-business sector are clear. TXF spoke with Sujay Sarkar, regional CFO for West & Central Africa at Olam, to discuss the commodity trader’s recent activities across Africa – and beyond

Trade Ledger, an open banking platform for business credit automation, and Nimbla, a trade credit insurance platform, have announced a new partnership to streamline trade finance and insurance processes for banks and lenders

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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:

Vodafone has been using complex financial engineering devised by GAM and Greensill to enable it to profit from and invest in its own SCF offerings and bolster its DPO. The trouble is the system leaves little reason for procurers to pay suppliers on time. TXF’s Ollie Gordon investigates.

Uruguay’s rail PPP project is progressing

NEXI is providing insurance for a loan to the Refinery and Petrochemical Integrated Development (RAPID) project in Malaysia

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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:

JBIC and NEXI will help finance a gas-fired power plant in UAE

Gazprom and RusGazDobycha have agreed to implement a RUB700 billion ($10.67 billion) project to construct a LNG and LPG facility near the city of Ust-Luga in Russia's Leningrad Oblast region

TMS Cardiff Gas, an operator and manager of 16 LNG carriers, has entered into a ten-year time charter contract with Vitol, for one of its X Carrier Series vessels

HSBC has completed its first live cross-border letter of credit Voltron transaction in China

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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:

Saudi Arabia's Water & Electricity SMLLC (WEC) is inviting expressions of interest for the development of the Yanbu 4 Independent Water Project, near the coastal town of Ar Rayyis

COFCO International plans to double its grain purchases in the Black Sea region as part of a global expansion into markets beyond China

CIMB Bank has committed to disburse at least MYR15 billion ($3.68 billion) in the next two years to help finance 100,000 Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SMEs)

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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:

Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk – sponsor of the Amur gas processing plant (GPP) project – is expected to mandate European banks at the beginning of April for the heavily ECA-backed project financing.

Vitol Group’s head of liquefied natural gas trading has said that the outlook was bleak for LNG in the short term due to an “incredibly” oversupplied market

China's Alibaba Group Holding may get its cheapest dollar-denominated syndicated loan ever as it negotiates with banks to amend terms of its existing $4 billion borrowing

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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:

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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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:

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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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:

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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