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The TXF podcast brings you latest export, trade and commodity finance updates from across the globe. Listen to our 5 minute round-up of the biggest issues and breaking news from your industry, plus special interviews with industry experts!
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Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
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:
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Senegal is expected to sign a DFI-backed loan to finance the $295 million Senegal Municipal Solid Waste Management (SWM) project,
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Glencore has become a member of the Global Battery Alliance (GBA),
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Aon has agreed to buy Willis Towers Watson (WTW) in an all-stock deal worth about $30 billion.
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Friday Mar 06, 2020
Friday Mar 06, 2020
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:
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The International Finance Corporation has arranged a €303 million financing package for a new €404 million gas-fired power project in Cote d’Ivoire
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Berlin-based SME financing specialist FinCompare has topped up its Series A funding round with an additional €12 million from, among others, ING Ventures.
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Swiss LNG trading houses Trafigura and Vitol have concluded the first trade for an LNG derivative contract during the Platts JKM Market on Close assessment process in Singapore.
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Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
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:
- After strong profits in 2019, oil traders have been hit hard early in 2020 - losing tens of millions of dollars on bets on gasoil price spreads due to an unexpected collapse in demand in Januar
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Euler Hermes has appointed Loeiz Limon-Duparcmeur, currently Group Head of Risk Underwriting, as Group Chief Financial Officer and Member of Board of Management
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China is close to giving the go-ahead for some of its biggest state-owned companies to develop the giant Simandou iron ore mine in Guinea, potentially paving the way for the project to be built after years of legal wrangling
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Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
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 International Chamber of Commerce has launched the Digital Trade Standards Initiative (DSI) – a cross-industry effort to enable the standardisation of digital trade
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Sirius Minerals, the company building a £4 billion mine under the North York Moors, is to be sold for £405 million after a rebellion by irate small investors against the cut-price deal failed
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Illicit trade misinvoicing is to blame for creating a value gap of $8.8 trillion in trade between 135 developing and 36 advanced economies from 2008 to 2017, according to research by Global Financial Integrity
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Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
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:
- Welsh water company Hydro Industries has secured a UK Export Finance-backed $200 million (£155.4 million) contract to build a treatment plant near an Egyptian tourist resort.
- Singapore-headquartered DBS Bank has completed the first trade financing settlement through CamelONE’s Trade Finance portal – with another two transactions slated to close this week.
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Friday Feb 28, 2020
Friday Feb 28, 2020
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:
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Petronet, India’s largest LNG buyer, is soliciting offers for supply under terms similar to a preliminary non-binding agreement it signed with Tellurian last September
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Pemex posted an $18.3 billion net loss for 2019 - almost doubling the previous year’s loss
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Export Development Canada is to increase funds available for its Women in Trade Investments Programme
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Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
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:
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The European Investment Bank has agreed a €60 million loan with Ignitis Group to finance the 94MW Pomerania Wind Farm project in Poland
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Money transfer outfit Azimo is tapping Ripple's On-Demand Liquidity offering for cross-border payments
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Australian coal miner TerraCom has offered to buy the remaining shares of Universal Coal that it does not already own, in a deal that values the company at about A$175 million ($119.68 million).
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
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:
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Swedish export credit agency EKN has announced that, as of 31 December 2020, it will no longer issue new guarantees for the financing of exports to coal mining
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The coronavirus outbreak in China will likely delay development of nickel projects in Indonesia worth about $11 billion
- Maersk has raised a new sustainability-linked $5 billion revolving credit facility to refinance an undrawn $5.1 billion facility maturing in 2021
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Monday Feb 24, 2020
Monday Feb 24, 2020
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:
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Orion Resource Partners and Yamana Gold have announced the launch of a new precious metals royalty company, with assets in Africa, Australia, North America and South America
- The International Finance Corporation has increased trade finance limits for Vietnamese banks to address, in advance, potential trade finance challenges triggered by the outbreak of the coronavirus
- US International Development Finance Corporation (IDFC)Chief Executive Officer Adam Boehler has been selected to serve as Executive Chairman of Prosper Africa, a government-led initiative which aims to increase two-way trade and investment between the US and Africa.
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Friday Feb 21, 2020
Friday Feb 21, 2020
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:
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South Africa-headquartered Anglo American Platinum has appointed Natascha Viljoen as CEO, with effect from 16 April,
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Petrobras missed fourth-quarter expectations but posted a record profit for 2019 of BRL40.1 billion ($9.19 billion) as the firm’s strategy of focusing on deepwater production and exiting non-core activities shows signs off paying off
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US-headquartered ACI Worldwide has announced that Odilon Almeida has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer
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