Downer EDI puts contract mining sale on hold; ING invests in NLP technology, Eigen; and Iamgold/Glencore close offices after employees emerge with covid-19

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:

• Canadian miner Iamgold Corp has announced it is taking precautionary measures to close its Toronto office this week to conduct a deep clean and disinfection after one of its employees tested positive for covid-19

• Australia-based Downer EDI has suspended the sale of its contract mining and services business due to the “extraordinary market volatility” caused by the coronavirus pandemic

• ING has invested €4.5 million ($5.04 million) in London-based Eigen, a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology company which helps companies extract data from documentation to help boost development across areas of trade finance and wholesale banking

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