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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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Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 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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Margarita Louis-Dreyfus borrowed $1 billion from Credit Suisse last year to buy out minority shareholders of Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC), pledging her majority stake in the commodities trader as collateral, a company filing showed.
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Standard Chartered has launched SC GPI Track.
- Allen & Overy partner David Christensen has moved to the firm’s US Projects, Energy, Natural Resources & Infrastructure (PENRI) team in New York
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Monday Jan 06, 2020
Monday Jan 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:
- Canada's First Quantum is weighing up a $1bn copper mine expansion in Zambia for Africa’s biggest such mine
- Garanti BBVA and the Export-Import Bank of China (Chexim) have agreed a $300 million three-year loan to be used by Turkish companies to finance imports from China
- Bunge ended its 13-year ownership interest in an Iowa ethanol plan following industry struggles with thin margins and overproduction
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Thursday Oct 31, 2019
Thursday Oct 31, 2019
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:
- UK Export Finance (UKEF) has appointed Carl Williamson to lead its Trade Finance Business
- Lithium explorer and developer Lake Resources has appointed experienced chief financial officer Garry Gill to help ensure funding of the company's planned initial lithium production at the Kachi and Cauchari projects in Argentina
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Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
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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Korea Development Bank (KDB) is setting up a branch in Vietnam focused on corporate finance.
- Bunge has released its Q3 results - a net income loss of $1.49 billion for the quarter and $1.229 billion for the nine months ending September 30
- VTB Bank (Europe) and Afreximbank have signed an agreement under which Afreximbank will guarantee the fulfilment of obligations of African financial institutions on trade finance transactions
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Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
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:
- An ambitious new Arctic oil project led by Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft will require about RUB10 trillion roubles ($157 billion) of investment, the country's deputy energy minister Pavel Sorokin said.
- MineHub has added London-based asset management company Kimura Capital to its consortium of industry participants
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Monday Oct 28, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019
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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Softbank has injected a further $655 million (£511 million) into Greensill as the online finance firm announced a fresh acquisition that could kill off payday lenders
- Moscow-headquartered aluminium producer Rusal has signed a new five-year sustainability-linked pre-export finance facility for $1,085,000,000
- The government of Bangladesh is planning to create a $500 million infrastructure fund to ease financing of projects under the public private partnership programme.
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Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
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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DTEK Renewables BV is planning to raise funds to finance or refinance its installed capacity of wind and solar power plants through the issuance of green bonds.
- Working capital solutions provider Demica has hired three ex-bankers in newly-created roles across its senior team in the firm’s London office.
- Russian energy giant Lukoil will drop-out of a significant gas exploration project with Saudi Aramco by the end of the year
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Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
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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Brazil’s Petrobras could take over marketing of the government’s share of crude from offshore oilfields, a government official said.
- Standard Chartered and the International Finance Corporation have established a $1 billion facility to facilitate trade finance in emerging markets
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Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
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 Central Bank of Cambodia is testing a wallet on digital ledger technology for cross border payments
- The UK is planning to invest in Argentina’s controversial oil shale industry using a £1 billion export finance deal intended to support green energy via UKEF
- Mining giant BHP has signed four renewable energy contracts that will replace coal-fired power at two of its copper mines in Chile
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Thursday Oct 17, 2019
Thursday Oct 17, 2019
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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Metalloinvest has raised a €9.9 million ($10.98 million) OeKB-covered 10-year loan from MUFG – the first ECA-backed facility under the borrower’s new framework agreement signed with 12 international banks in August 2019
- London-headquartered Demica's Head of Business Development, Diego Palacios, has joined The International Trade and Forfaiting Association's (ITFA) Emerging Leaders Board
- Gunvor Group has been ordered to pay almost CHF94 million ($94.8 million) by Swiss federal prosecutors after finding the company criminally liable for corruption in Congo Republic and Ivory Coast
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