The US Ex-Im political quagmire continues. So Michael Whalen, managing director at Berkeley Group and former vice president of structured finance at US Ex-Im, asks what a...

The holding company refinancing for Freeport LNG train 3 shows that banks have not soured on US LNG. But troubled offtakers may force sponsors down less palatable...

Could a 20-digit LEI number help banks cut their KYC and compliance costs while narrowing the SME trade finance gap? Yes – but not until regulators get behind it.

As a growing number of blockchain initiatives start live testing, albeit in controlled environments, trade tech is moving to an even more confusing level – a plethora of...

The bond refinancing of Actis’ acquisition of InterGen Mexico was pitched as a safe play in Mexico’s evolving energy sector. But reform, politics, and the assets’ age,...

A record amount of renewables corporate PPAs signed in 2017 and the trend looks set to continue. With US PPA structures working their way into Europe, and the rise of...

Amid the hype around blockchain, is the market losing sight of what the technology can really do for trade finance – and what it can’t?

Forget twitter and the crassness, Donald Trump has an infrastructure plan that the PPP industry actually likes. But is it workable, and would it pass congress?

Shandong Qingyuan has closed its second benchmark deal in as many years - a $650 million pre-payment facility. The deal is the largest ever structured commodity financing...

Unable to approve transactions of more than $10 million for over a year now, the two Trump nominees for the new US Ex-Im quorum have sent a mixed message to the...

Kernel improved pricing on its annual PXF in 2016 but did not find appetite for upping the tenor. Having done the groundwork in 2016, and following a successful five-year...

The largest structured commodity trade finance syndication done by a chinese copper producer to date, Dongying Fangyuan made clever use of China’s SAFE rules to go...

The race to close the first international syndicated structured loan into Chinese downstream oil and gas ended last year when Shandong Qingyuan debuted with a prepayment...

In a slowing global trade finance market, Michael Vrontamitis, global head of trade products, Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered, sees a potential upside to...

The Peru government raised DFI loans last month from both KfW and AFD – the latest tranches of debt to back the state contribution to the $5.8 billion Lima Metro Line 2...

Amandi Energy's $522 million CCGT power plant began construction last month and is expected to increase Ghana's electricity supply by 7% once completed in 2019.

Belgium-based oil tanker company Euronav has secured competitive pricing on its latest revolving credit. The deal was oversubscribed and pulled commitments from 10 banks....

The Chinese renminbi this month dropped from the second to the third most active currency in trade finance, overtaken by the euro. The drop has resulted from a slowing...

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

Iran suffered massively from the economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union. The Iranian oil and gas industry was especially badly impacted,...