TXF: Indepth

TXF: Indepth

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TXF: Indepth episodes

  • Battery storage charges ahead in project finance
    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:
    Hybrid renewable and battery storage system projects have been proven bankable following the first non-recourse deal in 2018, and the deal pipeline is expected to grow.
    Zimbabwe central bank has borrowed $985m from African banks
    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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    3 min
  • DFIs propel SME support
    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 Matiari-Lahore high voltage direct current transmission line project became the first private sector transmission project to achieve financial close in Pakistan.
    The EIB and UniCredit has agreed a €500m financing for Italian SMEs
    Ex-Petrobras trader ‘Batman’ Rodrigo Berkowitz is set to plead guilty in the US in the carwash government corruption probe
    Finland-based eInvoicing and B2B payments firm Basware has announced to shareholders that discussions about a possible acquisition by supply chain payments firm Tradeshift have ended
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    4 min
  • Raising debt for Peru's multipurpose port
    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:
    AMP Capital has closed a £83 million ($107.2 million) DFI-backed refinancing of the outstanding 2017 £94.5 million debt package stapled to the Leeds International Airport in the UK
    Sponsors of the $3 billion Chancay port in Peru – China’s Cosco Shipping Ports and Peru’s mining company Volcan – are sounding out bank appetite to finance construction of the scheme
    Standard Bank has unleashed a payments blockchain platform
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    3 min
  • Renewables finance continues apace
    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:
    UKEF has unveiled £130m of support for 3 projects in Ghana
    Spanish developer Solarpack has reached financial close on the financing for the $114 million 123MW La Granja solar project in Northern Chile
    US software development company MonetaGo has switched over from Hyperledger Fabric to R3’s Corda as an enterprise blockchain platform.
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    3 min
  • Mergers, ECAs, and supply chain finance
    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:
    UKEF and Barclays support expansion of Forrest Fresh Foods
     
    RockRose Energy buys UK assets of Marathon Oil For $140m
     
    Mastercard and AWS grow payments for supply chain
     
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    3 min
  • Is trade finance slowly becoming an asset class?
    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:
    SERV has backed a €37m loan for an Uzbekistan textile project
    Oman Power & Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has appointed an advisory team for its 50MW/1.4 million tpa waste-to-energy (WTE) project at Barka.
    De Beers Group has announced an initiative to consolidate its mining assets in South Africa and Canada into one business called De Beers Group Managed Operations
    ADB has expanded access to credit for rural SMEs in Sri Lanka
    ACWA Power is currently testing bank appetite for the $1.2 billion Taweelah desalination Independent Water Project in Abu Dhabi.
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    4 min
  • EIB ups 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:
    ENGIE, Meridiam and Senegalese sovereign fund FONSIS are set to reach financial close in Q2 2019
    Barrick Gold, the world’s second-largest gold producer, has studied a bid for Newmont Mining as the Canadian mining giant looks for ways to boost production
    Members of Japan's insurance and financial services sectors are teaming up in an effort to remove barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises to conduct trade with the US
    Turk Eximbank has received a loan of $380.5 million from an international banking consortium led by the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC)
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    4 min
  • ECAs propel key projects in Asia and Africa
    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:
    Thailand's largest cement company, Siam Cement, is looking to upsize the ECA portion backing the $5.4 billion Long Son petrochemical complex in Vietnam
    UK Export Finance will support a €30.2 million Siemens contract for the refurbishment of Al Mussaib power station in southern Iraq
    Wyelands Bank has sealed trade finance deal for peanut supplier Canon Garth
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    4 min
  • Noble Energy posts $854m Q4 loss
    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:
    TXF’s Ollie Gordon sat down with Massimo Falcioni, chief executive officer of Etihad Credit Insurance, to discuss the UAE’s plans for its brand new ECA.
    Noble Energy has posted a $824m Q4 loss
    Members of Japan's insurance and financial services sectors are teaming up in an effort to remove barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises to conduct trade with the US
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    3 min
  • Commodity traders look for investment with few takers
    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 EIB has agreed a €250m loan to improve Georgia's East-West Highway
    Gunvor Group has appointed two new global co-heads of its liquefied natural gas trading division
    The IFC plans to make a debt investment of up to $75 million in India-based Manappuram Finance, in what will be its first funding for a gold loan-focused company global
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    4 min

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