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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 08, 2019
Friday Feb 08, 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:
- Vias Chile, a local subsidiary of Spanish infrastructure Grupo Albertis, has reached financial close on a $227 million debt package to finance development of the Rutas del Pacifico in Chile.
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Kuwait is set to speed up its PPP project approval times
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UK-based mining firm Vast Resources has hired Paul Fletcher as its new chief financial officer
- AXA XL Insurance has launched a suite of crisis management solutions in France
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Thursday Feb 07, 2019
Thursday Feb 07, 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:
- UKEF has supported the Cleveland Bridge contract to develop infrastructure in Sri Lanka
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First Quantum has signed a $2.7bn term loan and RCF
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Bolivia has picked a Chinese partner for $2.3bn of lithium projects
- US President Donald Trump has said that the World Bank Group should be led by US Treasury official David Malpass, a Trump loyalist and critic of multilateral institutions who has vowed to pursue "pro-growth" reforms at the global lender
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Wednesday Feb 06, 2019
Wednesday Feb 06, 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:
- Solaria has secured €125m for new Spanish solar capacity
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Liberty House’s recent Aluminium Dunkerque deal which is both its first syndicated bank acquisition financing and a novel de-risked structure that includes a syndicated commodity price hedging agreement for the smelter
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Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum have announced a final decision to finance a $10 billion-plus project to export LNG from the Texas Gulf Coast
- Afreximbank has unveiled a $500m programme to boost Tunisia-Africa trade
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Tuesday Feb 05, 2019
Tuesday Feb 05, 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:
- Bangladesh has issued an EOI for its LNG project at Matarbari
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Mitsubishi has stucks with its stake in Singaporean commodity trader Olam despite impairment losses
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Phoenix Commodities, a food grains trading company, successfully signed a one-year $205 million BBL on January 31
- Surecomp has gone live with APIsure, an open API platform for trade finance applications
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Monday Feb 04, 2019
Monday Feb 04, 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:
- The AfDB has approved recommendations for Senegal’s coal-fired project
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Wpd has appointed commercial lenders for the ECA-backed financing of its Yunlin offshore wind project in Taiwan
- Oil hit a two-month high above $63 a barrel on Monday as OPEC-led supply cuts and US sanctions against Venezuela's petroleum industry offset forecasts of weaker demand and an economic slowdown and Project Halo, a South African group that bid R3.05 billion for Tegeta Exp
- David Venables has joined Taulia as senior account executive based in London
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Friday Jan 25, 2019
Friday Jan 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:
- Engie and CDPQ are eyeing loans of up to $8bn for Petrobras' TAG pipeline
- The latest podcast episode from the resident TXF podders discuss trade wars, a tightening of the credit cycle, the future of Saudi Arabia as a borrower market, and the implications of a potential $65 a barrel oil price.
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Carbon Holdings’ $10.9 billion ECA/DFI-backed Tahrir Petrochemicals Corp (TPC) is set to reach financial close at the beginning of Q3 2019
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BELLIN is one of the early adopter TMS providers of the SWIFT gpi for corporate (g4C) projects.
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Thursday Jan 24, 2019
Thursday Jan 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:
- Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has closed a second $500 million green bond issuance
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Switzerland-based energy trader MET Group has secured an €885 million ($1 billion) revolving credit facility
- Cannabis company Cronos Group has closed a $65m credit facility
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Wednesday Jan 23, 2019
Wednesday Jan 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:
- Google has signed its first Asian PPA
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Vertically integrated steel company Novolipetsk Steel signed a €240 million ($272 million) borrowing base facility on 20 December 2018 for its subsidiaries NLMK Plates Sales and NLMK Verona.
- GTreasury has appointed Renaat Ver Eecke as its new Chief Executive Officer
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Tuesday Jan 22, 2019
Tuesday Jan 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:
- The 800MW Java 3 gas-fired independent power project (IPP), the first IPP tender under Indonesia's new Ministry of Energy & Mineral Resources (MEMR) regulations, is expected to reach financial close on a $1 billion SERV/EDC-backed loan towards the end of 2019
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Commodity trading house Bunge has named Gregory Heckman as Acting CEO, while Russian diamond miner ALROSA has appointed Rebecca Foerster as its President for the US
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Eurasia Russia Resources are set to pilot a blockchain-based solution to boost traceability of cobalt
- The IFC and Citibank have put up $1.2bn to support trade in emerging markets
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Monday Jan 21, 2019
Monday Jan 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:
- Alba has reached financial close on the second tranche of ECA financing for its Line 6 project
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Liberty House Group closed a loan last month to back the $500 million acquisition of Europe’s largest aluminium smelter from Rio Tinto, Aluminium Dunkerque.
- R3 has launched Corda Network, an underlying, open shared blockchain network linking participants using Corda
- Wolfsberg Group has published new guidance on how financial institutions (FIs) should carry out sanctions screening
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