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20 April 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Helios Investment Partners: Blending lending

The first structure of its kind within the commodity finance space, Helios Investment Partners’ innovative blend of leveraged finance and trade finance techniques raised...

07 March 2018

Global export finance 2017: Numbers crunched without the headache

TXF has released its Global export finance results for 2017 and of the many unexpected results the major one is an almost complete change in the top five commercial...

22 November 2017
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Infrastructure, Transport

The long road across Veneto

Eight years in the making and with a revamp of the concession structure, the Pedemontana Veneta road project still has its critics. But there is no argument that getting...

06 October 2017
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Oil & gas

Rover: Testing the term loan B market

Given total dollar volume in the term loan B market was around $11.6 billion in 2016, of all the pipelines looking for B loan debt, the Rover gas pipeline project - which...

02 October 2017

Digitisation of receivables: In the spotlight at ITFA Edinburgh meeting

One of the many hot topics under the spotlight at the ITFA annual conference, this year held in Edinburgh, was the subject of digitisation and standardisation of...

20 September 2017

Best in Class Awards get biblical

Including the key deals, data and market trends from the past six months – and most significantly this year's expanded Best in Class Awards – the TXF Chronicle 2017...

24 July 2017
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Power, Transport

Interconnector Italia: Thinking outside the box

Interconnector Italia – a consortium of high-energy-use private sector companies in Italy – has signed a partially EIB-backed financing for its share of the Italy-France...

04 July 2017

Open Fiber: Banks key to Italian broadband

Open Fiber's fibre-optic broadband build-out could be one of Europe's largest infrastructure financings of 2017, if CEO Tommaso Pompei's stated timescale is not too...

14 June 2017
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Power, Renewables

Gipuzkoa: Raising optimal cash for debut in trash

Meridiam has cut a dash with its debut in the waste concession market via a mixed bond and loan package designed for optimal tenor at optimal pricing.

01 June 2017
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Renewables

Japanese wind: Getting offshore in a sea of permits

Japan has 600GW of theoretical offshore wind according to the Japan Wind Power Association. But with only a handful of nearshore projects under development, what is...

29 May 2017

Australian solar: End of the eclipse

Long eclipsed by the wind market, unprecedented deal volume in the Australian solar sector and improving bankability is focusing lenders' attention on a market that could...

22 May 2017

Message received: ACWA’s holdco hybrid a hit with investors

ACWA Power’s complex non-recourse bond debut was never going to be an easy sell to mainstream investors. But after 200-plus face-to-face account meetings and constant...

18 May 2017

Perfect 10 Victoria International Container Terminal: Sweet sixteen - a TXF ECA/project finance Deal of the Year

A long tenor deal in a market where miniperms are the norm, the structure of the A$398 million VICT financing enabled ICTSI to demonstrate that 16-year debt is possible...

12 May 2017

Perfect 10 Vitol Upstream Ghana: Unusual requirements - Unique solution - a TXF ECA/project finance Deal of the Year

The first African upstream oil and gas development loan to feature a European export credit agency supporting a project finance/reserves-based lending hybrid, Vitol’s OCTP...

10 May 2017

Perfect 10 Virgin Voyages: Cruising without the bruising - a TXF ECA/project finance Deal of the Year

$2.2 billion of ECA-covered non-recourse debt for a start-up cruise line – the Virgin Voyages deal is SACE at its export support best.

09 May 2017

Perfect 10 Sangaredi: High tenor and pitched perfect - a TXF ECA/project finance Deal of the Year

DFI loans and a rare untied UFK covered loan enabled commercial banks to push the tenor on CBG’s Sangaredi mine expansion financing to 15 years - a record for Guinean...

26 April 2017

Perfect 10 Shandong Qingyuan: Warming the pots - a TXF commodity finance Deal of the Year

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...

25 April 2017

Perfect 10 NWK Agri Services: Cottoning on to pre-export finance - a TXF commodity finance Deal of the Year

In a rare soft commodity pre-export financing, Rabobank and Zanaco structured a deal to extend the reach of the supply chain and meet the working capital needs of Zambian...

24 April 2017

Perfect 10 Tengizchevroil: Big deal in a much bigger funding strategy - a TXF commodity finance Deal of the Year

The $3 billion Tengizchevroil pre-export revolver is ultimately a liquidity facility designed to enable optimum timing and pricing for future TCO bond issues. But the...

05 April 2017

Getting the balance right: EBF advocating wider ECA exemptions to leverage ratios

Despite progress last year, key clauses in the Capital Requirement Regulation Leverage Ratio (CRR LR) regime still threaten to hit the availability and cost of European...