Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is one of Austria's leading banks with a strong focus on export finance. With eSpeedtrack, RBI has now launched a small-ticket buyer’s credit solution, streamlining and digitizing important steps of the financing process. RBI is working with all major European ECAs. Peter Lennkh, member of the Management Board in charge of Corporate Customers, and Petra Rauscher, Head of Export Finance, explain how eSpeedtrack works.

France’s first offshore wind farm project financing – the 480MW Saint Nazaire scheme – had an extended deal gestation of over seven years after facing several legal and environmental challenges. But despite its troubled path to financial close, the deal priced at a margin and tenor on a par with more mature European offshore wind markets.

With the sponsors of the Formosa 2 offshore wind project having having reached financial close on a heavily ECA-backed project financing, confidence in the bankability of Taiwan's developing offshore wind market should be back on the up. But there are still reservations about availability of local liquidity for future deals and whether the predicted deal pipeline will deliver given the potential re-licensing of nuclear.

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) pulled in record low tariff offers this month for its latest 900MW solar PV scheme – DEWA V. But there was no promise from DEWA of a sovereign guarantee backing the project in the tender document. So how did bids go so low?

ECA excellence and large-scale multisourced project finance were the talk of the town at TXF MENA 2019 this month. TXF’s MD Hesham Zakai outlines the most dominant opportunities and headwinds facing the region.