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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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Friday Feb 22, 2019
Friday Feb 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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ENGIE, Meridiam and Senegalese sovereign fund FONSIS are set to reach financial close in Q2 2019
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Barrick Gold, the world’s second-largest gold producer, has studied a bid for Newmont Mining as the Canadian mining giant looks for ways to boost production
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Members of Japan's insurance and financial services sectors are teaming up in an effort to remove barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises to conduct trade with the US
- Turk Eximbank has received a loan of $380.5 million from an international banking consortium led by the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC)
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Thursday Feb 21, 2019
Thursday Feb 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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Thailand's largest cement company, Siam Cement, is looking to upsize the ECA portion backing the $5.4 billion Long Son petrochemical complex in Vietnam
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UK Export Finance will support a €30.2 million Siemens contract for the refurbishment of Al Mussaib power station in southern Iraq
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Wyelands Bank has sealed trade finance deal for peanut supplier Canon Garth
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Wednesday Feb 20, 2019
Wednesday Feb 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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TXF’s Ollie Gordon sat down with Massimo Falcioni, chief executive officer of Etihad Credit Insurance, to discuss the UAE’s plans for its brand new ECA.
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Noble Energy has posted a $824m Q4 loss
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Members of Japan's insurance and financial services sectors are teaming up in an effort to remove barriers for small and medium-sized enterprises to conduct trade with the US
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Tuesday Feb 19, 2019
Tuesday Feb 19, 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 €250m loan to improve Georgia's East-West Highway
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Gunvor Group has appointed two new global co-heads of its liquefied natural gas trading division
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The IFC plans to make a debt investment of up to $75 million in India-based Manappuram Finance, in what will be its first funding for a gold loan-focused company global
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Monday Feb 18, 2019
Monday Feb 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 Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has released a downbeat report on the prospects for private infrastructure investment in Asia. But, says Joachim von Amsberg, AIIB vice-president for policy and strategy, the bank can drive improvements where other DFIs have struggled.
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Polyus signs $150m PXF-type credit facility
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Friday Feb 15, 2019
Friday Feb 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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ANZ has hired two new members to its sustainable finance team in Australia. Tania Smith joins from Arup and will be a director in the Melbourne office
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Oman Power & Water Procurement Company (OPWP) has appointed an advisory team for its 50MW/1.4 million tpa waste-to-energy (WTE) project at Barka.
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South Africa’s Gold Fields said its full-year profit slumped 73%
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ADB has expanded access to credit for rural SMEs in Sri Lanka
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Thursday Feb 14, 2019
Thursday Feb 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:
- TXF’s Features editor Ollie Gordon reports that In late 2018 HSBC structured a multi-jurisdictional import financing that inaugurated a rare joint venture between ADM and Cargill in the Egyptian soybean sector
- FMO has priced a new $500 million five-year Green Bond at mid-swaps plus 17bps
- Cambodia’s state-owned electricity company Electricite du Cambodge has launched the international competitive bidding process this week for the ADB-backed stage one of the 100MW solar project in Kampong Chhang.
- Akamai and MUFG are set to roll out a blockchain-based payment network in 2020
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Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
Wednesday Feb 13, 2019
In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson and Eavie Burnett cover the latest stories and trends across the market:
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Ten prospective developers for a battery storage facility in Jordan submitted bids on 20 January 2019 to an RFP issued by the kingdom’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (MEMR).
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Verizon Communications has closed the US telecom industry’s first Green Bond with proceeds from the $1 billion
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Credit Suisse Group has told employees they may not get their bonuses after the bank lost money on a commodity finance deal in the final quarter of 2018, according to Bloomberg
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Citi has launch its new global liquidity solution, CitiDirect Cash Concentration, which enables clients to digitally manage their cash pooling structures through the bank’s online treasury management tool.
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Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
Tuesday Feb 12, 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:
Sumito Corporation’s 1.2GW Van Phong supercritical coal-fired power plant in southern Vietnam is expected to sign the ECA-backed debt backing the scheme over the coming months
Vitol, the world's top oil trader, plans to access liquefied petroleum gas from the giant Kashagan field in Kazakhstan
India Exim is set to finance 27 solar projects in 15 nations
SWIFT has announced that it is to open its Know Your Customer platform, The KYC Registry, to corporates
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Monday Feb 11, 2019
Monday Feb 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:
- Spanish broadband provider Adamo has secured commercial bank financing to accelerate the expansion of its Fibre to the Home service.
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Uzbekistan is set to establish a $500m development bank
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Zimbabwean gold miner RioZim has suspended production at its three mines for the second time in four months because the central bank had failed to pay it in US dollars for part of its gold deliveries.
- The bidding war has intensified as Visa wants to see off arch-rival Mastercard with a £247 million offer for UK-based cross-border payments firm Earthport.Mastercard last month wanted to beat Visa with a £233 million offer
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