Size matters - but innovation, strong marketing and a willingness to take on risk are the key traits that this year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Deals of the Year all...

The UK Guarantee Scheme was not designed for financing mining projects. But Sirius Minerals, which has already overcome significant hurdles to its North Yorkshire...

MedcoEnergi is syndicating a very rare reserves based loan for the Aceh Block A gas project. With Indonesian gas production dwindling and energy demand increasing, the...

Despite a sovereign downgrade to junk, Bahrain LNG closed an over-subscribed LNG regas project financing backed by availability payments from Bahrain’s National Oil and...

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.

Israel’s Delek Group overcomes political interference to close its largest upstream bank financing to date.

Last month energy company Woodside tapped a favourably priced $100 million EKN loan, guaranteed by GIEK and DNB, for the supply of subsea equipment to the offshore...

Some US merchant power plants have lurched from one crisis to another since they were built and financed a decade and a half ago. Despite the twin threat of low gas...

Dutch-listed fertiliser producer OCI has completed a tender for $147 million of the bonds issued by its Iowa Fertilizer project. The tender, for a series of bonds that...

The UK government introduced dramatic cuts to renewable energy subsidies in August, just a month before Finland's ECA, Finnvera, closed a £100 million financing for the...

At the end of last month, Finnvera and NIB signed a $225 million facility that will be onlent to a eucalyptus pulp mill project in Brazil. The deal represents the first...

Olam’s acquisition of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)’s cocoa business provides the perfect opportunity to investigate the trader’s track record for sustainable cocoa and...

The size of the target – 15, 35 or 43 gigawatts (GW) – is open to dispute, but there is less argument about whether the Indonesian government is serious about its plans...

With the long-awaited BRICS Bank due to begin lending next month, TXF looks at how the institution is breaking away from the western model of development finance to meet...

Oliver Gordon catches up with some leading figures to discuss whether trade finance is still being unfairly penalised under the Basel III framework.

There is a general consensus within the banking industry that – as a concept at least – privileging short-term profitability over the long-term health of an institution...

On Friday 16 January, the London School of Economics (LSE) co-hosted a conference with CAF - the Latin American development bank; on geopolitics and the ‘Global South’.

Equinox Global (Equinox), the Lloyd’s cover holder specialising in trade credit insurance, has appointed Kully Ubhi and Jack Woodruff to its UK team.

Barclays has appointed Nick Littleford and Paul Woodward as co-heads of large corporate sales finance organisation, UK and Ireland, within the trade and working capital...

ANZ has signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) that will extend its relationship with the China Development Bank (CDB) and could boost available finance for the...