Deutsche Bucht: Cheap debt sunset?
Financing for the Deutsche Bucht project has neared Borkum II’s benchmark low for the cost of German offshore wind debt. Despite being the last deal structured under the...
Financing for the Deutsche Bucht project has neared Borkum II’s benchmark low for the cost of German offshore wind debt. Despite being the last deal structured under the...
Mali’s debut independent power project financing, for a greenfield heavy fuel oil-fired power plant, features a blend of Islamic and DFI debt with tight pricing given the...
Indonesian agri-industrial conglomerate Royal Industries (RI) is asking lenders for another 19 years to repay a five-year working capital loan signed in 2014.
In a deal that represents US Ex-Im's last approved aircraft guarantee before it shut down last summer, Turkish airline Sun Express closed in June five US Ex-Im-backed...
Despite sanctions still impacting Russia, the state-owned oil giant Gazprom’s UK-based subsidiary has quelled lender concerns to seal a new commodity financing agreement....
The past month of June has been a busy time for TXF, with two of our landmark conferences – TXF Rome and TXF London – blazing their way into the market and both proving...
TXF's Connor Lovell speaks to Derek Halpenny, MUFG's European head of global markets research, about the certainty of uncertainty in today's risk landscape including...
After four years of delay, the $4 billion Batang power project has been given the green light from Japanese financiers. But the environmental and social cost of...
Connor Lovell speaks to Dave Anderson, Zurich’s incoming global head of credit and political risk, about his new role and current political landscape. Anderson is a...
The Norwegian ECA is heavily exposed to the offshore oil and gas market and has put and extra $580 million aside to deal with an increase in claims.
Bloated state development bank BNDES is to be slimmed down by the government in order to boost commercial lenders in the Brazilian infrastructure market.
Facing a liquidity drought, the state-owned lenders to Korea’s embattled shipyards are in need of recapitalisation if they are to support restructuring in the industry....
The order for four very large gas carriers from Hyundai Heavy Industries is riding on the coat tails of a decade of expansion for Korea’s shipbuilders. But concerns about...
The $314 million deal is part of a strategy to get a slice of Eurasian trade along the new Silk Road as the country tries to wean itself off a dependence on shrinking oil...
In the week following the roaring success of TXF’s Commodity Finance Conference in Amsterdam, we look at the results of our delegate survey.
The $400 million refinancing is an unusual bright spot in an otherwise moribund oil and gas market, but with no other comparable deals pricing and structuring was a...
The Japanese ECA is expanding its cover in the UK with the Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, its latest partnership with private sector insurers in Europe.
Italian shipbuilding continues to boom with last month’s ECA-backed loan for a new vessel from Fincantieri.
The Japanese policy bank has previous when it comes to private equity investments in Asia, but now appears to be targeting the US market with increased vigour.
Russian potash producer Uralkali has completed a $1.2 billion pre-export financing with more than a dozen international banks, bucking the trend for Russian commodity...
The trade finance industry has suffered a trio of ailments since the end of 2024 with the shuttering of three different non-bank lenders. While the circumstances across the three cases vary, market conditions are posing problems for lenders of all sizes. How can the community reflect on these events, and what options are borrowers left with?