US-headquartered Castleton Commodities International has closed on a $2.4 billion committed borrowing base facility.The deal comprises a $750 million three-year tranche,...
The Islamic Development Bank has sold $1.5 billion in five-year sukuk. IsDB set the Islamic bonds’ spread at 55 basis points over midswaps, tightening 15 bps...
Ghana Cocoa Board’s (Cocobod) annual pre-export financing will be raised by a club of banks as lenders declined to underwrite the risk amid the uncertainty of the...
Independent solar power producer Sonnedix has closed senior facilities totaling $87 million with Natixis for a 100MW portfolio of 20 solar plants in Chile. The projects...
Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank has hired banks for a potential sale of US dollar-denominated five-year sukuk, or Islamic bonds.The triple-A rated financial...
Calpine Corporation closed on a $1.1 billion Climate Bonds Certified green loan for its Geysers Power Company (GPC) subsidiary on June 9. Proceeds will repay Calpine for...
On 9 June, Natixis announced the appointment of Simon Eedle as senior country manager in the UK and Barbara Riccardi as regional head of Middle East, effective 1 July and...
This year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders...
Online trade finance scale-up Stenn has secured participation from Barclays Bank, Coface SA, and Crayhill Capital Management LP in its latest investment round. The...
Bpifrance has announced the first closing of the LAC 1 fund with an investment capacity close to €4.2 billion, including over €3.2 billion raised from investors...
It’s time to celebrate commodity finance excellence, as last year’s most outstanding, unique and influential deals, which cover a range of sectors and regions, have been...
Metals and natural resources trader Traxys has closed a $1.287 billion multi-tranche, multi-currency facility. Signed on 5 May, the facility was slightly oversubscribed,...
Traxys, the Luxembourg-headquartered metals and natural resources trader and merchant, has signed a $1.287 billion multi-currency syndicated revolving credit...
Natixis has announced that it will no longer finance projects dedicated to shale oil and gas exploration and production. It also pledged to halt financing companies whose...
The OPEC Fund for International Development has increased its trade finance program from $50 million to $100 million to enable Natixis to enhance support for trade and...
Natixis Investment Managers affiliate Vauban Infrastructure Partners has entered into a strategic agreement with Bouygues Telecom for a FTTH roll-out in French...
Singapore headquartered Puma Energy closed a one-year $310.5 million RCF in late April. Proceeds will be used to refinance its existing one-year $350 million RCF, closed...
US-headquartered Freepoint Commodities has closed a $2.565 billion revolving credit facility. The facility consists of a $1,667,250,000 three-year committed tranche and a...
Private equity firm Lone Star Funds has taken the most aggressive action so far in the judicial restructuring of Atvos Agroindustrial by launching a hostile takeover of...
The Ivory Coast decided to keep the ECA-backed financing of the Abidjan Metro on balance sheet after it initially launched the project as a PPP in 2013. TXF spoke with...
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
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