Morgan Stanley Infrastructure’s recent refinancing of the Red Oak power plant took the asset out of the bond market and into the bank market via a ‘hedge toggle’ structure. Twenty years on from Red Oak’s first financing, the US is still searching for workable power market structures. Could the ‘toggle’ help US power sponsors live with market uncertainty?

Igor Ostreyko, managing director of trade and export finance at VTB, and Anna Ponomareva, head of ECA and agency finance at VTB, discuss product innovations in a post-sanction environment, and how the state-owned bank has become the only Russian lender to tap Sinosure cover.

Sponsors of the $1.54 billion gas-fired Gulf Sriracha IPP project in Thailand – Gulf Energy Development and Mitsui – have closed a tightly priced DFI/ECA-backed financing to fund the scheme. And the dual-currency deal is set to serve as a blueprint for future IPP financings in the southeast Asian country.

TXF spoke with Charles Xu, managing director of commercial finance & capital markets at GE China, to discuss the benefits of directly sourcing Chinese financings in a global power market with only a handful of major players.

Recorded webinar - We reflected on 2018 and asked what actually made a difference in trade technology in the past year and picked out the highlights amid the hype.