Despite finalising a lengthy debt restructuring in 2017, Metinvest returned to the debt markets in 2018 to close a $2.36 billion PXF/bond facility, the largest...

Oil trader Addax Energy closed a rare IFC-backed borrowing base in Mauritania in 2018, to take home TXF's African Commodities Finance Deal of the Year Award. And the...

Winning TXF’s Best Commodity Trader Finance Deal of the Year, Trafigura sealed a complex $250 million two-step pre-payment loan in 2018 to finance the procurement of...

China’s Shandong Qingyuan closed three offshore pre-delivery finance facilities against future crude oil deliveries, totalling nearly $1 billion, to take home TXF’s Best...

Taking home TXF’s Sustainable Commodity Finance Deal of the Year Award, Gunvor sealed a $770 million sustainability-linked borrowing base facility in 2018 – the first for...

In an amend-and-extend of a previous PXF for crude oil exports, the government of Oman was able to secure the same cost of funding despite a dramatic deterioration of its...

In the latest edition of law firm Sullivan & Worcester's Trade Finance Breakfast Seminars, partner Marian Boyle discusses the role of insurance in bank’s credit support...

Sponsors of the $3.9 billion 700MW CSP solar project in Dubai – Acwa Power and Shanghai Electric – are near to signing the project debt backing the world’s largest...

Kia Motors’ ECA-backed facility to finance the construction a new manufacturing plant in India – its first project financing in India and only its third ever ECA-backed...

Sponsors of the Nam Theun 1 hydro project in Laos closed a tightly priced ECA-backed facility last month. The deal, which took three years from start to finish, has...

Size matters - but innovation, strong marketing and a willingness to take on risk are the key traits that this year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Deals of the Year all...

As Argentina prepares to award the first roads concessions in its ambitious $25 billion-plus PPP programme, bankers are already working with sponsors on plans to raise...

Since the CDP-SACE-SIMEST restructuring in 2012, SACE has transformed from tired state relic into one of the world’s leading providers of export credit cover. It has the...

Amongst the coffee and croissants, Sullivan and Worcester’s breakfast seminar discusses the importance of financial and cyber resilience for firms regulated by the...

The Kosovo E Re coal-fired power project is a potential candidate for World Bank funding. If it goes ahead it may set the precedent for a more practical approach to...

Three ECA practitioners highlight their predictions for the industry in 2018. From the fate of US Ex-Im to the UK government rescinding on Brexit, there is something for...

The TXF commodity finance report has revealed a year-on-year rise in global volumes from 2016. With Middle Eastern traders turning up the heat, Russian producers looking...

The DFI-backed Almaty ring road PPP is being promoted as the financing template that will kick-start the Kazakh PPP market. But it comes with a knot of heavy sovereign...

Nigeria’s plan to finance 14 utility-scale solar IPP projects by the end of June 2018 is looking uncertain. Potential DFI appetite is waning as state-owned offtaker...

Despite the endless stream of PR statements about banks exiting coal-related lending, none can actually track where the proceeds of loans to commodity traders go. When...