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...

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently launched a new advisory practice – the ECA Advisory Practice for Capital Projects – aimed at helping export credit agencies deal...

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...

The December 2017 finalisation of the Basel III framework offers some good risk weighting news for smaller multilaterals. Could this help channel more funding to emerging...

An executive summary of TXF's key global country risk ratings for December.

The World Bank and the Islamic Development Bank have issued a report highlighting the potential for Islamic finance in PPP. And untapped pools of capital could boost...

Turkey’s Bilkent Laboratory PPP is nearing financial close and will be the fourth hospital financing in 2017 under the country’s €12 billion hospital PPP programme....

Thirty developers achieved financial close under Egypt’s solar Feed-In-Tariff (FiT) Round 2. However, with no commercial bank presence and heavy DFI funding this time...

Developers under Egypt’s Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) Round 2 programme are racing to close financings with DFIs and other lenders to make the scheme's 28 October deadline.

Tajikistan has startled bond investors with its debut Eurodollar issue – a deal designed to finance construction of the 3600MW Rogun hydroelectric power project. But 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...

Sponsors of the 800MW third phase of the Dubai solar park closed a $700 million soft mini-perm earlier this month - the largest Middle East solar deal to date to go...

With backing from seven ECA’s and 11 commercial banks, KNPC's $6.25 billion Clean Fuels project financing is setting a new benchmark for inter-creditor complexity.

Alba has secured commitments for an additional $700 million ECA-backed loan to part finance its Line 6 expansion project. The deal complements a $1.5 billion syndicated...

Olivier Paul - Head of Policy, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission - outlines the continuing value of ICC’s Trade Register project, its...

With a smaller-than-expected commercial bank tranche, the $1.05 billion partially ECA-backed debt package for the Fadhili CHP project demonstrates some of the collateral...

Dubai is close to mandating arranging banks for a $3 billion loan to finance its Al Maktoum International Airport. But progress on the $2.5 billion debt mandate for the...

The Barak Ibdar Shariah Trade Finance Fund is a new joint venture between Barak Management Fund and Ibdar Bank which sees Islamic investment herald the African commodity...

Recent years have seen an enormous amount of optimism towards Africa, both internationally and within Africa. Ex-President of the African Development Bank, Donald...