Perfect 10: Senelec’s ECA first
Winning TXF’s Best ECA-backed African deal of the year, Senegal’s state-owned power utility Senelec closed its first ECA-backed loan to finance an electricity system...
Winning TXF’s Best ECA-backed African deal of the year, Senegal’s state-owned power utility Senelec closed its first ECA-backed loan to finance an electricity system...
Winning TXF’s Best Middle Eastern ECA deal of the year, the MIDOR expansion financing came in with solid ECA-backed pricing despite a list of hurdles in its two-year...
Vietnam witnessed its inaugural ECA-backed corporate deal in 2018 after automotive start-up, VinFast, made a strongly priced debut in the ECA market.
The export finance industry has an ageing demographic. Much of the knowledge and talent in the industry comes from practitioners with over 30 years’ experience. However,...
The bank that liked to say yes too often, BNDES is under new management and has a new mission: to do more to promote effective infrastructure investment with less money....
A serial user of ECA and DFI debt, Carbon Holdings CEO Basil El-Baz expects to reach financial close on the $10.8 billion Tahrir Petrochemicals project by the end of the...
The TXF-ICC Global Export Finance Survey 2018 incorporates the pricing and liquidity views of 65 senior export finance practitioners at leading banks, ECAs, exporters and...
TXF caught up with Audrey Zuck, director at A2Z Risk Services, to find out more about the importants of data sharing initiatives in the private insurance market. Zuck...
Winning TXF’s Energy Finance Deal of the Year, Neptune's $2 billion transaction represented the largest reserve-based lending facility raised for an acquisition in the...
In a unique deal that fused acquisition financing, commodity finance and commodity price hedging, Liberty House closed a $350 million facility in 2018 to back the...
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...
Seung-Hoon Lee is now head of Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim’s) investment finance team, having recently been director of the new development finance team in the agency’s economic development promotion department. He discusses the agency’s new emphasis on direct equity investment in companies and project funds. How will this affect its longer term finance offering, support export credit, and also its development finance strategy?