Soma 4: Turkey debuts gender-tied project loan
Polat Energy has signed a gender-linked facility to finance the 48MW Soma 4 wind farm in Turkey. The project, an extension to the existing 240MW Soma wind farm, marks the...
Polat Energy has signed a gender-linked facility to finance the 48MW Soma 4 wind farm in Turkey. The project, an extension to the existing 240MW Soma wind farm, marks the...
Ahead of TXF Italy next month, TXF talks to Alessandro Terzulli, chief economist of SACE, about the uncertainties of the economic scenario in which SACE SIMEST currently...
Katharine Morton ponders the opacities of financing trade, and what lies beneath, revealed at ITFA’s celebration of a mysterious dance of hide and seek
Glencore’s decision to temporarily mothball the world’s largest cobalt mine in the DRC raises many questions about the state of mining in the central African country....
Australia’s energy-from-waste (EfW) sector is in project finance adolescence. But a lack of developers and varying waste supply agreements from councils are proving...
Nachtigal set the financing template for hydro in Cameroon in late 2018. Now a very ambitious project more than four times the size of Nachtigal is underway, but is it...
In a ramp up of the US-China trade wars, the US is accusing China of being a currency manipulator in order to gain trade advantages. But, asks Jonathan Bell, is this...
The problems at the Oyu Tolgoi mining project in Mongolia mean the sponsors, Rio Tinto via its ownership of Turquoise Hill Resources, will have to raise $1 billion-plus...
Shariah-compliant international factoring can work well within the wider context of a burgeoning global Islamic finance market. Yuce Uyanik, who is on the legal committee...
Matthew Oresman and Henrietta Worthington, partner and associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, take a look at why they think US policy represents the greatest...
Cofco has signed the largest loan for an agri trading company yet which is linked to sustainability elements. Jonathan Bell examines this growing trend within...
In the third of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about how it’s not all about trade wars...
TXF talks to Makiko Toyoda and Jessica Schnabel, the women who are spearheading the development of IFC’s latest initiative to raise access to trade finance for...
Despite some of the legal challenges taking place in the US, financiers can be expected to remain committed to the huge volume of hydrocarbons financing which will take...
Small-scale miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) produce one third of the country’s cobalt amid dubious environmental and ethical standards. But can...
TXF sat down with industry experts to look at how changes in corporate trade and supply chain and digitisation are blurring the lines between cash management and...
In the age of ‘clean and green’ there is a growing need to develop rail transport links globally. And on the African continent some recent rail projects show that...
The decision to maintain oil production cuts, and by so doing the market price, is a clear reflection of the impact of the US-China trade wars. Jonathan Bell assesses the...
In advance of the ICC World Banking Commission annual meeting in Beijing, TXF gathered China financial experts and corporates to talk about financing China trade....
The growth of solar energy generation is fundamental to phasing out coal-fired projects in Vietnam. TXF spoke with lawyers at Watson Farley & Williams to discuss the...
In this trade & export finance webinar, Mark Norris, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, examine the continued rise of social and governance issues looking at the impact of human rights in ESG financing, with a focus on the UN Standards of Conduct for Business Tackling Discrimination against LGBT+ people, “green grabbing” and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure.