Episodes
Friday Jul 26, 2019
Friday Jul 26, 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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US agribusiness Bunge and UK British oil and gas company BP have arranged a 50:50 sugar cane ethanol joint venture in Brazil
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The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to provide a €10 million trade finance facility to Piraeus Factoring, the first company in Greece to be supported by the EBRD
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Nemaska Lithium has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with Pallinghurst Group for the financing of the Whabouchi project – a lithium mine in the Eeyou Istchee James-Bay territory and an electrochemical plant in Shawinigan
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Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 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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Three bidding teams submitted expressions of interest on 24 July (today) in the PPP tender process for the new A$1.495 billion ($1.05 billion) Footscray Hospital in Australia.
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Cofco International has completed its senior unsecured sustainability-linked facility, which initially signed last week at $200 million less than the final $2.3 billion raised
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The founder of Chinese conglomerate Camsing Global has been sued by Noah Holdings
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Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 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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UKEF has provided a loan to Angola for an agriculture project
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China has announced an anti-dumping tax on some stainless-steel products from the European Union, Japan, South Korea and Indonesia
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Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg has announced the appointment of leading trade and commodity finance lawyer Lodewyk Meyer as a partner in the banking and finance practice group Shanghai
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Monday Jul 22, 2019
Monday Jul 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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Southeast Asian upstream oil and gas firm Coro Energy is renegotiating the proposed acquisition of a 42.5% stake in the Bulu production sharing contract for the Lengo gas field contract in East Java, Indonesia.
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Nicholas Hann confirms he has resigned from his role as head of investments at Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) after just 10 months in the job
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Japan’s government is leading a global push to set up an international network for cryptocurrency payments, similar to the SWIFT network used by banks
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Thursday Jul 18, 2019
Thursday Jul 18, 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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In the second of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton in more depth about the effects trade wars are having on US trade, and what the impact will be of US Exim getting back its mandate
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Sponsors of the 250MW Kidston Stage 2 pumped storage hydro project (K2-Hydro) in Australia –Genex Power (50%) and EnergyAustralia (50%) – are expected to reach financial close on a A$610 million ($425 million) debt package to fund the scheme
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HSBC China has named Zuocheng Ding as head of loan origination in Shanghai
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Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 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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Metinvest has closed a €34.4 million ($38.57 million) ECA-backed loan to finance the large-scale reconstruction of Illyich Steel's hot strip mill 1700 in Ukraine
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Norwegian fertiliser producer Yara has signed a $1.1 billion five-year multicurrency revolving credit (RCF) with two one-year extensions
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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) will release the new Incoterms 2020 in September
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Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
More market moves and Trump's continued protectionism
Wednesday Jul 17, 2019
Wednesday Jul 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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Philip Hopkins took over sole leadership of Wells Fargo’s renewable energy and environmental finance business on July 1 following the retirement of Barry Neal
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President Trump will sign an order seeking to upsize the domestic content threshold for American-made iron and steel in federal procurements
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Nayan Ruparelia has joined Traydstream as senior vice president of product technology and chief technology officer.
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Monday Jul 15, 2019
Monday Jul 15, 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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BNP Paribas has appointed Chaoni Huang as head of sustainable capital markets, global markets for Asia Pacific
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MC Mining has approved a R245 million loan ($17.5 million) seven-year term loan provided by the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Credit Committee to fund the construction of Phase 1 of the Makhado hard coking coal project
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Demica announced today that it is forming a strategic alliance with Bank of Montreal (BMO) to provide supply chain finance for BMO's clients
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Thursday Jul 11, 2019
Thursday Jul 11, 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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CAF, the Latin American development bank, is to lend $75 million to Northern Argentine province Jujuy to finance the region's first solar-powered train
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China's offshore oil and gas specialist CNOOC has entered a framework deal with China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec) to jointly study and explore mostly offshore oil and gas blocks
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Tinubu Square, a provider of credit insurance, surety and trade finance solutions, is launching the Tinubu Bonding Insurance Suite (BIS)
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Wednesday Jul 10, 2019
Wednesday Jul 10, 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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Nippon Export and Investment Insurance has concluded a reinsurance agreement with the Export-Import Bank of Thailand
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World Bank has approved credit lines worth $100 million to support small and medium-sized enterprises operating in Angola.
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East Yorkshire food wholesaler Tuber Produce has secured a £1.15 million trade and invoice finance facility from Bibby Financial Services (BFS) to support its global expansion plans
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