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16 May 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Financing international trade: FIT for purpose?

A call for action. How to get FIT for trade, treasury and risk (without any physical exercise)

30 April 2018

Dethroned and panned: Is it all over for Noble?

As Noble Group looks to force through a controversial restructuring amid lawsuits and media spats with shareholders, what could a new Noble look like? And will regulatory...

30 January 2018

Deadlocked on debt

Iran has yet to produce the project and trade flows bankers hoped for following signing of the JCPOA in 2016. The hurdles are largely born of the Trump administration –...

17 January 2018
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Metals and Mining

Mining for more margin

In conjunction with an uptick in industrial metals pricing, more mining companies are beginning to consider commodity trading for themselves.

05 December 2017
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Infrastructure, Transport

Foreign investors eye Russian infra market

With Russia’s economic climate improving in 2017, the country has seen an injection of investment commitments into infrastructure from Asia and the Middle East. Some...

17 November 2017

LCs: An outdated concept?

The shift to open account trade continues to raise question marks over the future and relevance of traditional letters of credit (LCs).

16 October 2017
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Infrastructure, Transport

Top Trump ironies: Donald has a plan

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?

12 October 2017

Trade funds: Know your potential investor base

Robert Kowit, senior vice-president and product specialist at Federated Investors, is finding investor appetite for trade finance assets from some unexpected quarters.

29 September 2017
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Oil & gas

Trading places

As LNG markets mature, commodity traders are making significant inroads into the LNG space - both as providers of finance and infrastructure - and look set to challenge...

26 September 2017

Time to stand up and be counted

The volume of private insurance market credit risk mitigation is growing – but does the industry do enough to voice its activities and concerns to regulators?

11 August 2017
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Transport

Moscow Central Ring 3: Cashphalt costs

At the end of July the sponsors of the Moscow Central Ring Road section III concession reached financial close with a mix of public grants and domestic bank debt. The...

27 July 2017
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Transport

Risk or reward: Is Iran bankable?

Some economic sanctions were lifted 18 months ago and Iran is open and keen for business. However, the commercial bank sector is far from tapping into the immense...

05 June 2017

Jackpot seven: KNPC cleans up with ECA backing

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.

20 April 2017

Shop talk: The reflections and forecasts of Peter Luketa

Peter Luketa, former global head of export finance at HSBC, led one of the most successful teams within the export finance sector. With 20 years of ECA-backed lending...

18 April 2017

Leading commodity traders: Filling the funding void and maxing the margins

A downturn in global commodity markets and a rise in regulatory pressure has led to greater de-risking by structured trade finance banks. This funding gap is being...

18 April 2017

Uruguyan wind: Small market - big impact

Uruguay is the MacGyver of clean energy development. Equipped with just some pocket change from the UN’s climate fund, the country has become a global standard-bearer for...

10 March 2017

Onshore, offshore: The Chinese borrowing dynamic is changing

Changes in Chinese foreign exchange regulations could be set to attract new international banks and domestic borrowers to the offshore financing space. And after years of...

16 December 2016

Glencore surges past rivals to sign unexpected Rosneft deal

Commodity trader Glencore has stolen a march on its rivals, securing an unexpected deal with state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft. The Switzerland-based trading house...

08 December 2016

Back to business as usual for Glencore

Following a tough 2015 which saw the share price of commodity trader Glencore drop dramatically, signs of improvement have been evident in 2016. The resumption of...

28 November 2016
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Metals and Mining

Warehouse security updates drive essDOCS and LME into ‘friendly competition’

EssDOCS has launched a new electronic warehousing tracking system much like LMEshield to combat chances of fraud. The two commercial products produced separately by the...