Episodes
Thursday May 30, 2019
Thursday May 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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White Oak UK, the alternative finance provider for small and medium-sized enterprises, has acquired Dublin-based Growcap Finance
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Chicago-headquartered Archer Daniels Midland Company has created a new business unit called Ag Services & Oilseeds
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Ratch-Australia's 227MW Collector wind farm in south-east New South Wales has achieved financial close following a A$180 million ($125 million) loan from the Australian green investment bank Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)
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Tuesday May 28, 2019
Tuesday May 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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CESCE and Kuwait Petroleum Corporation have signed a $1bn MoU
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Netherlands-headquartered Louis Dreyfus Company has renewed its $750 million revolving credit facility in North America, including a sustainability-linked pricing mechanism for the first time
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The EBRD has signed a €50m risk-sharing facility with Turkish bank TSKB
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Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 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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The EIB has agreed a loan worth €700m for two Polish road projects
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EnergyAustralia is set to buy gas from the Port Kembla LNG import terminal
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US-based corporate payments technology firm Bill.com is rolling out a new platform designed to deploy artificial intelligence for automated workflows
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Wednesday May 22, 2019
Wednesday May 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 World Bank has approved a US$200 million loan to increase access to sustainable financing for green urban investments - with a focus on water, wastewater and solid waste management - in China.
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Glencore is to supply cobalt feedstock to restart First Cobalt Corp’s refinery in Ontario
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The EBRD has pledged fresh funds to support SMEs in Kyrgyz Republic
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Tuesday May 21, 2019
Tuesday May 21, 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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SolGold is in talks to finance a long-life Ecuador copper project
- ADB has singed a loan to help finance 15.1MW solar power plant in Afghanistan
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Wells Fargo has turned to TransferMate for a business payments tool
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Monday May 20, 2019
Monday May 20, 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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Preferred bidder for the 800MW Java 3 gas-fired independent power project (IPP) in Indonesia, Marubeni Corporation, has re-entered talks with state-owned utility PLN in regards to the signing of the power purchase agreement (PAA).
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Trading companies Vitol and Unipec are sending around 700,000 tonnes of contaminated Russian oil to Asia in an attempt to place the barrels rejected by buyers in Europe
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Allen & Overy is advising on the development of the pioneering blockchain-based, multi-jurisdictional commodity trade and finance platform known as Forcefield
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Saturday May 18, 2019
Saturday May 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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The EBRD is considering providing a senior secured reserve-based loan (RBL) alongside a mix of international and local banks for the $400 million Midia Gas Development (MGD) project in Romania – the first new offshore gas development in the Romanian Black Sea basin since 1989
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Oil traders are starting the slow process of cleaning up cargoes of Russian crude that were loaded onto tankers at a port in the Baltic Sea during a contamination crisis
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Supply chain finance group CapitalBay has received the approval from the Securities Commission Malaysia to operate a peer-to-peer financing platform
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Thursday May 16, 2019
Thursday May 16, 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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Indonesia’s state-owned electricity utility PLN is expected to mandate EPC contractors and lenders by the end of next month for its 200MW Lumpung gas-fired power project in Indonesia
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Vancouver-headquartered Lithium Americas Corp has announced that Tom Hodgson has retired as Chief Executive Officer and Director
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Seaspan Corporation has closed its new $1 billion portfolio financing program
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Wednesday May 15, 2019
Wednesday May 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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The Republic of Congo and commodities-trading house Trafigura Group agreed to reorganise several hundred millions of dollars in oil-for-cash loans that the African nation struggled with after crude prices fell, according to people familiar with the talks
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Finastra has appointed Mark Miller as its new Chief Financial Officer
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US Ex-Im will host the 2020 G12 Heads of Export Credit Agencies Meeting in Washington, D.C., in May 2020
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Tuesday May 14, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 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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GuarantCo has issued a guarantee to support a solar power plant in Bangladesh
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Moody’s has upgraded Glencore because of its increased resilience to volatile commodity markets - but said the miner’s rating was likely to remain capped because of environmental and corporate governance concerns
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Deutsche Bank has announced that it is now able to process instant payments to Malaysia
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