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 AfDB has approved recommendations for Senegal’s coal-fired project

Wpd has appointed commercial lenders for the ECA-backed financing of its Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan

Oil hit a two-month high above $63 a barrel on Monday as OPEC-led supply cuts and US sanctions against Venezuela's petroleum industry offset forecasts of weaker demand and an economic slowdown and Project Halo, a South African group that bid R3.05 billion for Tegeta Exp

David Venables has joined Taulia as senior account executive based in London

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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:

Engie and CDPQ are eyeing loans of up to $8bn for Petrobras' TAG pipeline

The latest podcast episode from the resident TXF podders discuss trade wars, a tightening of the credit cycle, the future of Saudi Arabia as a borrower market, and the implications of a potential $65 a barrel oil price.

Carbon Holdings’ $10.9 billion ECA/DFI-backed Tahrir Petrochemicals Corp (TPC) is set to reach financial close at the beginning of Q3 2019

BELLIN is one of the early adopter TMS providers of the SWIFT gpi for corporate (g4C) projects.

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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:

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has closed a second $500 million green bond issuance

Switzerland-based energy trader MET Group has secured an €885 million ($1 billion) revolving credit facility

Cannabis company Cronos Group has closed a $65m 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:

Google has signed its first Asian PPA

Vertically integrated steel company Novolipetsk Steel signed a €240 million ($272 million) borrowing base facility on 20 December 2018 for its subsidiaries NLMK Plates Sales and NLMK Verona.

GTreasury has appointed Renaat Ver Eecke as its new Chief Executive Officer

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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:

The 800MW Java 3 gas-fired independent power project (IPP), the first IPP tender under Indonesia's new Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources (MEMR) regulations, is expected to reach financial close on a $1 billion SERV/EDC-backed loan towards the end of 2019

Commodity trading house Bunge has named Gregory Heckman as Acting CEO, while Russian diamond miner ALROSA has appointed Rebecca Foerster as its President for the US

Eurasia Russia Resources are set to pilot a blockchain-based solution to boost traceability of cobalt

The IFC and Citibank have put up $1.2bn to support trade in emerging markets

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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:

Alba has reached financial close on the second tranche of ECA financing for its Line 6 project

Liberty House Group closed a loan last month to back the $500 million acquisition of Europe’s largest aluminium smelter from Rio Tinto, Aluminium Dunkerque.

R3 has launched Corda Network, an underlying, open shared blockchain network linking participants using Corda

Wolfsberg Group has published new guidance on how financial institutions (FIs) should carry out sanctions screening

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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:

The EBRD has agreed a loan to Kosovo's ProCredit Bank to boost SMEs

VAKT, an independent company focused on creating an industry-wide post-trade processing platform for commodities through blockchain, has announced investment from three new investors: Chevron, Total and Reliance Industries

The ADB has agreed 3 loans worth $455m with Sri Lanka

NatWest is to offer Esme Loans - the digital lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises and scale up businesses launched by the bank in 2017 - directly to its existing SME business customers

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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:

Ex-HSBC head of export finance Peter Luketa has joined Cranmore Partner

Afreximbank has closed a $500m Chexim-backed facility

US grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland has looked at buying rivals, including Bunge and dozens of other companies, but decided the time is not right for "monster" acquisitions

SWIFT has published a standard for pay later APIs with the aim to help the adoption of this consumer payment model

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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:

Turkey has cancelled 1GW of solar procurement

The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim) will be recapitalised to the tune of Rs6,000 crore

Bank Hapoalim has become the first bank in Israel to sign up for SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi), allowing it to provide customers with increased speed, transparency and traceability of cross-border payments

MineHub Technologies works with IBM on mining supply chain blockchain solution

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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:

ACWA Power is planning a move into solar panel production

Olivier Delay has been appointed as Natixis’ new CEO of Americas CIB, effective 1 March 2019.

Russia is preparing an investment in Bitcoin to replace the US dollar as a reserve currency in a bid to tackle US sanctions

Vancouver-based GoldQuest Mining has appointed Dave Massola as chief executive officer (CEO)

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