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- Shell buys cargo of Russian crude loading mid-March from Trafigura; JBIC invests up to €100m in Clean H2 Infra Fund; Trade credit insurers pull back from Russia, Ukraine after invasion
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:
Shell bought a cargo of Russian crude oil from Swiss trader Trafigura in S&P Global Platts window loading from Baltic ports at a record low of dated Brent minus $28.50 a barrel
JBIC is investing up to €100 million (about $108.7 million) in Clean H2 Infra Fund of France, which is targeting €1.5 billion
Trade credit insurers are pulling back from covering businesses exporting to Ukraine and Russia following Moscow's invasion, given the risks of sanctions, high claims or missed payments, industry sources say
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3 min - EBRD to suspend Russia and Belarus; Poland, Lithuania speed up gas link amid Russia supply concerns; SACE’s Archirodon Group loan marks inaugural sustainability-linked untied credit line
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 is just waiting on approval from its governors to suspend indefinitely Russia and Belarus’ access to EBRD finance and expertise
A natural gas pipeline called GIPL will open on 1 May, ahead of its initially anticipated mid-2022 start, linking the Polish grid with a route to an LNG terminal in Lithuania
SACE, HSBC and Archirodon have signed an agreement for a $50 million untied three year credit line with a link to sustainability
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3 min - Global trade grows but is expected to slow in 2022; SC Ventures launches bank agnostic SCF; LNG industry rebounds in 2021 to 380m tonnes
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:
Global trade in LNG increased 6% to 380 million tonnes during 2021 as many countries rebounded from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Shell’s latest annual LNG Outlook.
SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment, and ventures arm, has launched Trade and Supply Chain Connect (TASConnect)
- A new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has revealed that global trade reached a record high in 2021, about $28.5 trillion, an increase of almost 13% relative to pre-Covid pandemic levels.
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4 min - CDC appoints 4 new managing directors; Narrabri expansion ’would make it dirtiest thermal coalmine in Australia’; Credit Suisse gets more cash in Greensill funds
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:
CDC, the UK’s development finance institution that will soon be renamed British International Investment, has appointed four new managing directors
A $400 million mine expansion earmarked for approval by the New South Wales government would become the dirtiest thermal coal project in Australia
Credit Suisse has recovered more cash from the frozen supply chain finance funds linked to Greensill and has filed seven insurance claims in the matter so far, its asset management arm said
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3 min - No Aker, JGC to work on Russia’s Yakutsk LNG project; Olam prices $275m US private placement; IFC, DEG help HDBank expand 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:
Japan's JGC and Norway's Aker Solutions will conduct the front-end engineering design and project documentation for Russia's Yakutsk LNG project
Olam International subsidiary Olam Americas has priced a $275 million issuance of five and seven-year fixed rate notes via a private placement
IFC, LeapFrog Investments, and DEG have invested $165 million in convertible Tier 2 bonds issued by Vietnam's HDBank.
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4 min - Kexim finances $150m to Trafigura for stable base metal supply; Quartix raises funding; AstroPay launches new SME payment capability in Brazil
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:
- Kexim to finance $150m to Trafigura for stable base metal supply
- Quartix raises $20m funding
- AstroPay launches new SME payment capability in Brazil
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3 min - HSBC seals ESG-tied trade finance facility; the EIB extends loan to Cairo Metro; and Afreximbank raises $1.2bn syndicated term loan facility
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 completed its first sustainability-linked trade finance transaction in Hong Kong
- The European Investment Bank is providing €600 million (about $679 million) for the Cairo Metro Line 3 phase 3 Project.
- The African Export-Import Bank has concluded a new three-year Syndicated Term Loan Facility, raising $1.2 billion;
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3 min - HE Dabar seals Chexim deal for Bosnian hydropower plant; Gunvor completes first Samurai loan; FASB proposes enhancing supplier finance programme transparency
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:
Reliance Industries and Saudi Aramco have called off a deal for the state oil giant to buy a stake in the oil-to-chemicals business of the Indian conglomerate due to valuation concerns, sources said
India's Tata Steel has executed a blockchain enabled paperless export order with a metals major in Bangladesh
The second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF 2021) generated a record setting $42.1 billion in trade and trade-related investment deals
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4 min - Reliance to reevaluate $15bn stake sale in oil-to-chemicals arm to Saudi Aramco; Tata Steel executes blockchain metals trade via Contour; IATF 2021 generates record trade and investment deals
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:
Reliance Industries and Saudi Aramco have called off a deal for the state oil giant to buy a stake in the oil-to-chemicals business of the Indian conglomerate due to valuation concerns, sources said
India's Tata Steel has executed a blockchain enabled paperless export order with a metals major in Bangladesh
The second Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF 2021) generated a record setting $42.1 billion in trade and trade-related investment deals
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4 min - Pakistan seeks clearance for $13bn Sinosure cover for projects; Vale signs forest recovery partnership with BNDES; Development Bank Ghana receives AfDB grant
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:
Pakistan has sought the Chinese government's intervention to persuade China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure) to clear about $13bn of cover to energy and infrastructure projects.
Brazilian miner Vale - through Fundo Vale - has joined the Living Forest Initiative, a project unveiled by development bank BNDES at COP26 in Glasgow
The African Development Bank has approved a grant of $40 million from the African Development Fund to Ghana to further capitalise The Development Bank Ghana (DBG), a newly established development finance institution.
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