Episodes
Friday Apr 26, 2019
Friday Apr 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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Canadian Solar has agreed to sell-down its 80% interest in a 480MW portfolio of solar parks in Brazil to Nebras Power, while courting UKEF for future project financings.
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Russian aluminium producer Rusal has announced the placement of its ten-year rouble-denominated bond, with a three year put option on the Moscow Exchange with the nominal value of 15 billion rubles
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AfDB has signed a $50m deal with Natixis to boost trade finance in Africa
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Thursday Apr 25, 2019
Thursday Apr 25, 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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Serbia has signed a railway overhaul financing deal with Chexim
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Vale files $2bn over Guinea project
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SWIFT has appointed Javier Pérez-Tasso as its new Chief Executive Officer
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Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Market moves, supply chain finance solutions and IDB Invest's local currency loan
Wednesday Apr 24, 2019
Wednesday Apr 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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IDB Invest is providing local currency financing of R$442 million with a total tenor of 20 years to BRK Ambiental
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Pensana Metals has appointed Tim George as its new Chief Executive Officer
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China-based micro lender Dunxin Financial Holdings has announced plans to roll out a mobile-based supply chain finance solution next month
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Tuesday Apr 23, 2019
Tuesday Apr 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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ExxonMobil has agreed a 20-year LNG deal with China's Zhejiang Energy
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JBIC has agreed a loan for coal-fired power project in Vietnam
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The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation has signed six major trade financing and development agreements worth in excess of $1.1 Billion with Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member countries
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Thursday Apr 18, 2019
Thursday Apr 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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IEnova, one of Mexico’s largest private energy firms, is working to bag US$395 million worth of loans to finalise a 376MW PV portfolio, the first it has ever deployed
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Vitol Group's head of LNG trading is moving the unit's operations to London from Geneva, as the super-chilled fuel plays a growing role at the world's biggest independent oil trader
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HSBC and Walmart have announced the roll-out of a sustainable supply chain finance programme that pegs a supplier's financing rate to its sustainability performance
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Wednesday Apr 17, 2019
Wednesday Apr 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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Carbon Holdings’ $10.9 billion ECA/DFI-backed Tahrir Petrochemicals Corp (TPC) has allegedly faced issues raising equity commitments to fund the scheme.
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Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has hired nine banks to manage an offering of shares in its fuel distribution unit Petrobras Distribuidora
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The EBRD has agreed its first syndicated loan for Kazakhstan’s largest microfinance group
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Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 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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Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), the UAE Federal credit insurance company, and Italy's SACE SIMEST have signed a reinsurance agreement to support Italian businesses operating in the UAE
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UK Export Finance will make an additional £1 billion of support available for British firms operating in Iraq.
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Rio Tinto has committed $302 million of additional capital to advance its Resolution Copper project in Arizona
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Monday Apr 15, 2019
Monday Apr 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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Chevron Corp has doubled down on its bet on surging US oil and gas output, saying it would buy shale producer Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $33 billion in cash and stock that will make it the second-largest crude producer in the world
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Siberian Coal Energy Company Group (SUEK) has closed two Euler-Hermes backed equipment financings with Commerzbank as sole lender. Both deals closed on 21 March and finance equipment for a SUEK subsidiary.
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SWIFT has overcome the first hurdle as it seeks to be selected as a provider for the Eurosystem Single Market Infrastructure Gateway
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Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Fundraising for mines via the corporate route
Sunday Apr 14, 2019
Sunday Apr 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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Perseus takes corporate debt route to fund Yaoure Gold Mine project
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Cloud treasury and finance solutions group Kyriba has closed a $160 million growth investment round led by Bridgepoint
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Thursday Apr 11, 2019
Berne Union records $2.5 trillion of trade supported by insurers in 2018
Thursday Apr 11, 2019
Thursday Apr 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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Addleshaw Goddard has poached power finance specialist Rory Connor from King & Spalding
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A record $2.5 trillion of trade and investment was supported by credit and investment insurers of the Berne Union in 2018 - 13% of total cross-border merchandise trade
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Australian LNG-giant Woodside has defended efforts to get funding from Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC) for a $2.8 billion oil project
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