Denmark’s EKF has cancelled a loan for the Teghout open pit copper mine in Armenia on environmental grounds. Is this a signal for ECAs to get tougher?

Construction risk has long been an impediment for the use of project bonds to finance greenfield infrastructure projects. The Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility...

Robert Kowit, senior vice-president and product specialist at Federated Investors, is finding investor appetite for trade finance assets from some unexpected quarters.

While their contribution to trade finance remains tiny compared with that of traditional banks, trade finance funds are an increasingly critical provider of liquidity,...

Solar developer FRV closed a $65 million DFI-backed loan this week to finance the development of the $93.3 million 51MW Al-Safawi solar plant in Jordan. Won with a highly...

For sale: Investible asset. Self-liquidating with low default and loss rate. Contributor to real economy businesses. Short term maturities available. It’s a compelling...

A multi-jurisdictional corruption probe into oil sector deals under the previous Nigerian administration is gaining pace and implicates both multinational commodity...

Sinosure appears to be following a more aggressive mandate, although policy details are sketchy and the agency claims it is natural progress. What is clear is that the...

Anti US Ex-Im comments from the US is nothing new over the past couple of years, but the latest anti-blast coming from the Wall Street Journal is just plain wrong....

Cost-cutting measures at Angola’s state oil company have started to pay off and foreign oil companies are re-engaging with Sonangol at improved terms. But broader...

The second restructuring of Glencore’s pre-pay deal with SHT, combined with more deal volume and the increasingly risky markets traders are financing, is flagging up the...

Despite a growing deficit and the announcement of a $55 billion infrastructure budget for the next 10 years, the Australian government is adopting the CEFC template and...

The first open-source blockchain-powered platform for trade finance – TradeIX’s founders claim it is a unique network-of-networks solution

With a major offshore borrowing by Shandong Qingyuan approaching close, and record Chinese crude import volumes, large international syndicated loan debuts by teapots are...

A long tenor deal in a market where miniperms are the norm, the structure of the A$398 million VICT financing enabled ICTSI to demonstrate that 16-year debt is possible...

Despite a low oil price environment and ratings pressure on the sovereign, state-owned Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) closed the largest...

Andrew Taylor, CEO of BeCyberSure, explains why investing in people, processes and governance offers treasurers a better defence against cyber-attacks than technology,...

Cheam Hing Lee, CEO and founder of Singapore-based Rhodium Resources, was not a fan of supply chain finance (SCF) until he started his own commodity trading company five...

In September 2016, despite a BB- rating Russo-Swiss agrochemical producer EuroChem closed a tightly priced $800 million pre-export finance (PXF) facility, slicing 50bp...

Awarded to Aecon as a PPP concession with the Canadian Commercial Corporation as an intermediary, and financed via the US private placement market, the Bermuda Airport...