Société Générale CIB (SG CIB) has led a group of banks in the arranging of a revolving credit facility for Exportadora Atlantic in Nicaragua. The $130 million loan will...
IFC has launched a trade supplier finance facility with Sri Lankan apparel exporting company Brandix. This is the first such facility in South Asia, as part of IFC’s...
Société Générale (SG) and Bpifrance have today signed a partnership agreement to support the overseas growth of French businesses. The two institutions, which have a...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to provide a €5.4 ($7.3 million) financing package to Teplodar PiVi in the Odessa region of Ukraine...
Standard Chartered (StanChart) has arranged a senior syndicated loan facility for marine services company Stanford Asia Holding Company (SAHC), amounting to $300...
Singapore-headquartered, agribusiness group Wilmar International has signed a $2.065 billion term loan facility with a syndicate of international banks. The facility was...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has formally signed its main annual pre-export financing (PXF) for the 2013/2014 cocoa crop season. The PXF has rumbled on over the past...
Essar Energy, the India-focused integrated energy company, has secured a new $300 million corporate loan facility from the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim). The...
HSBC has recruited Bart Ras to its ranks where he will have the title of global head of business development for the bank’s global trade and receivables finance (GTRF)...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has arranged an A/B loan structure to support the planned expansion of Faurecia, a leading global automotive...
Energy trading company Gunvor has closed the $675 million long-term secured financing facility for the company’s flagship investment - the Ust Luga Oil Products Terminal...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) is to provide two direct loans totaling $33.6 million to the Spanish company Abengoa, to facilitate the export of...
BNP Paribas (BNPP) and KfW IPEX-Bank have arranged and signed export credit financing amounting to $98 million for the construction of the Tuban 2 cement plant in...
Canada’s Scotiabank has completed the Canadian rollout of CGI’s cloud-based, ‘software-as-a-service’ (SaaS) solution, CGI Trade360. The announcement was made at Sibos...
India’s YES Bank has successfully closed a loan facility equivalent to $255 million. The facility will be used for general corporate purposes and trade financing for the...
The UK’s Lloyds Bank has signed a partnership agreement with Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) to team in providing enhanced services to its clients importing from...
South African banks Nedbank and Rand Merchant Bank are to provide Aureus Mining with a $100 million debt financing package to develop its flagship New Liberty Gold...
Georgia’s TBC Bank has signed a €35 million subordinated loan agreement with its shareholder Dutch development bank, FMO. The loan facility is provided in syndication...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Abu-Dhabi’s Department of Finance have teamed to set up a partnership for investing in Russian infrastructure projects and...
Despite turmoil in much of the Middle East, the EMEA region has a wealth of opportunities for growth in trade finance. TXF talks with Sameer Sehgal and Anurag Chaudhary...
The global backdrop to wind has been looking shaky of late. Project financing backing the Baltic Power project has just signed – but the rest of the first wave of Poland’s embryonic offshore wind sector is facing delays. The country originally promised as much as 28GW by 2050 but the chances of success now look mixed due to inflation and critical cost increases.
Financing the $170 billion African infrastructure gap using domestic capital pools isn’t quite a pie in the sky – there are several financing tools that are already sourcing local investment. But limited savings rates and poor investor appetite are likely to keep any capital dent small for now.
A new study of World Bank trade finance activity glosses over ten years of market evolution.
The global backdrop to wind has been looking shaky of late. Project financing backing the Baltic Power project has just signed – but the rest of the first wave of Poland’s embryonic offshore wind sector is facing delays. The country originally promised as much as 28GW by 2050 but the chances of success now look mixed due to inflation and critical cost increases.
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