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28 April 2016

Latin America: the world’s leader in renewable energy?

Latin America is undergoing a rapid transition to renewable energy. According to tagmydeals, there was $831 million in ECA-backed renewable-energy deals last year as...

27 April 2016

JBIC: the outward face of Japan Inc?

JBIC has been quick out of the starting blocks in 2016, supporting $5.6 billion in deals as the government swings its weight behind the policy bank. Connor Lovell looks...

27 April 2016
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Oil & gas

BEST ENERGY FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR: Gazprom Marketing & Trading secures RCF and looks East in difficult sanctions context

Gazprom Marketing & Trading the trading arm of Russian gas producer Gazprom, broke new ground in its expanded $500 million RCF, with a debut Asian tranche indicating the...

25 April 2016

BEST ECA GREEN DEAL OF THE YEAR: Denmark’s EKF backs Chile’s biggest wind farm

In burgeoning market for renewable energy in Latin America, last year’s $306 million San Juan project promises to be Chile’s largest wind farm when complete.

25 April 2016
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Transport

BEST ECA AIRCRAFT FINANCING DEAL OF THE YEAR: UKEF and HSBC join for first ever renminbi financing

Last year’s pioneering deal from HSBC and UKEF to sign the first ever renminbi financing of an aircraft purchase is TXF’s best ECA Aircraft Financing Deal of the...

22 April 2016

MOST INNOVATIVE ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR: Peru’s Lima Metro taps ECA and PPP model

In a pioneering $800 million deal to finance Peru’s Lima Metro, the borrowers successfully structured a joint ECA and Public Private Partnership, to be crowned as TXF’s...

20 April 2016

BEST AFRICAN ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR: Italian lenders venture onto DFI turf with Kenyan dam financing

In one of the first non-concessional foreign loans in Kenya, the Itare dam project is set to bring fresh water to 800,000 Kenyans and is our Best African ECA Deal of the...

19 April 2016
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Power, Renewables

BEST ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR: Benchmark Beni Suef deal reopens Egyptian ECA market

Egypt's energy capacity is set to double following last year's $1.49 billion financing of the Beni Suef power plant as the government moves to end endemic blackouts.

15 April 2016

BEST DFI/ECA-BACKED DEAL OF THE YEAR: Smile! $315m in financing for African broadband rollout

The financing of Smile's $315m 4G broadband rollout will hasten the economic development of no less than four African nations.

07 April 2016
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Telecoms and Communications

JBIC backs first South Atlantic telecoms cable

The Angolan Development Bank has received a $109m from JBIC and SMBC to finance the construction of a submarine fibre optic cable connecting Angola with Brazil. It will...

05 April 2016

Germany courts India with ultra-cheap loan for Nagpur metro

KfW has signed a €500 million loan to part-finance the construction of the Nagpur Metro. The facility is the biggest promotional loan issued by the bank in a decade and...

01 April 2016
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Power

Atomic diplomacy: EXIAR backs $103m loan to fund Indian nuclear plant

EXIAR, Russia’s ECA, has backed a $130m loan to Atomstroyexport to build a nuclear power plant in India. TXF takes a closer look at the state-support behind the...

30 March 2016

Japanese steel forges ahead with double JBIC deal

The ailing Japanese steel sector — the second largest in the world — has received $405 million in financing, in favour of two overseas subsidiaries, from the Japan Bank...

23 March 2016

EDC goes out on the pull

TXF looks at Export Development Canada's unique and controversial 'pull strategy,' of untied financing to foreign companies like BMW.

22 March 2016

Indonesia taps Japan for clean coal technology

Japan continues to dominate the clean coal energy market with a $326.6 million co-financing of the Lontar thermal power station run by Indonesia’s state-owned energy...

21 March 2016
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Renewables

JBIC rides wave of North Sea wind projects

In an industry braced for change, JBIC continues a move into offshore wind with a joint €443 million refinancing on Holland's Luchterduinen wind farm.

11 March 2016

IADB disburses $200m tranche for Brazilian pulp plant

Brazil’s largest paper producer, Klabin, received the first tranche of a $300 million A/B structured loan last week via the Inter-American Development Bank to fund a...

09 March 2016

Brick by BRIC: the New Development ethos

With the long-awaited BRICS Bank due to begin lending next month, TXF looks at how the institution is breaking away from the western model of development finance to meet...

08 March 2016

Costa Rican airport operator seals $127m bond for OPIC repayment

Aeris Holdings, the operator of Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaria International Airport, completes a $127 million refinancing of a loan that will double the airport’s...

04 March 2016

Will international lenders embrace Ghana’s new ECA?

Ghana has approved its new Export-Import Bank after months of political wrangling. But will export financiers be prepared to engage with Africa’s latest export credit...