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 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has released a downbeat report on the prospects for private infrastructure investment in Asia. But, says Joachim von Amsberg, AIIB vice-president for policy and strategy, the bank can drive improvements where other DFIs have struggled.

Polyus signs $150m PXF-type credit facility

 

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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:

ANZ has hired two new members to its sustainable finance team in Australia. Tania Smith joins from Arup and will be a director in the Melbourne office

 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.

 South Africa’s Gold Fields said its full-year profit slumped 73%

ADB has expanded access to credit for rural SMEs in Sri Lanka

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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:

TXF’s Features editor Ollie Gordon reports that In late 2018 HSBC structured a multi-jurisdictional import financing that inaugurated a rare joint venture between ADM and Cargill in the Egyptian soybean sector

FMO has priced a new $500 million five-year Green Bond at mid-swaps plus 17bps

Cambodia’s state-owned electricity company Electricite du Cambodge has launched the international competitive bidding process this week for the ADB-backed stage one of the 100MW solar project in Kampong Chhang.

Akamai and MUFG are set to roll out a blockchain-based payment network in 2020

 

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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson and Eavie Burnett cover the latest stories and trends across the market:

Ten prospective developers for a battery storage facility in Jordan submitted bids on 20 January 2019 to an RFP issued by the kingdom’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR).

Verizon Communications has closed the US telecom industry’s first Green Bond with proceeds from the $1 billion

Credit Suisse Group has told employees they may not get their bonuses after the bank lost money on a commodity finance deal in the final quarter of 2018, according to Bloomberg

Citi has launch its new global liquidity solution, CitiDirect Cash Concentration, which enables clients to digitally manage their cash pooling structures through the bank’s online treasury management tool.

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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:

Sumito Corporation’s 1.2GW Van Phong supercritical coal-fired power plant in southern Vietnam is expected to sign the ECA-backed debt backing the scheme over the coming months

Vitol, the world's top oil trader, plans to access liquefied petroleum gas from the giant Kashagan field in Kazakhstan

India Exim is set to finance 27 solar projects in 15 nationsSWIFT has announced that it is to open its Know Your Customer platform, The KYC Registry, to corporates

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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:

Spanish broadband provider Adamo has secured commercial bank financing to accelerate the expansion of its Fibre to the Home service.

Uzbekistan is set to establish a $500m development bank

Zimbabwean gold miner RioZim has suspended production at its three mines for the second time in four months because the central bank had failed to pay it in US dollars for part of its gold deliveries.

The bidding war has intensified as Visa wants to see off arch-rival Mastercard with a £247 million offer for UK-based cross-border payments firm Earthport.Mastercard last month wanted to beat Visa with a £233 million offer

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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:

Vias Chile, a local subsidiary of Spanish infrastructure Grupo Albertis, has reached financial close on a $227 million debt package to finance development of the Rutas del Pacifico in Chile.

Kuwait is set to speed up its PPP project approval times

UK-based mining firm Vast Resources has hired Paul Fletcher as its new chief financial officer

AXA XL Insurance has launched a suite of crisis management solutions in France

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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:

UKEF has supported the Cleveland Bridge contract to develop infrastructure in Sri Lanka

First Quantum has signed a $2.7bn term loan and RCF

Bolivia has picked a Chinese partner for $2.3bn of lithium projects

US President Donald Trump has said that the World Bank Group should be led by US Treasury official David Malpass, a Trump loyalist and critic of multilateral institutions who has vowed to pursue "pro-growth" reforms at the global lender

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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:

Solaria has secured €125m for new Spanish solar capacity

Liberty House’s recent Aluminium Dunkerque deal which is both its first syndicated bank acquisition financing and a novel de-risked structure that includes a syndicated commodity price hedging agreement for the smelter

Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum have announced a final decision to finance a $10 billion-plus project to export LNG from the Texas Gulf Coast

Afreximbank has unveiled a $500m programme to boost Tunisia-Africa trade

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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:

Bangladesh has issued an EOI for its LNG project at Matarbari

Mitsubishi has stucks with its stake in Singaporean commodity trader Olam despite impairment losses

Phoenix Commodities, a food grains trading company, successfully signed a one-year $205 million BBL on January 31

Surecomp has gone live with APIsure, an open API platform for trade finance applications

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