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06 August 2018
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Transport

Bayfront Infrastructure: Project CLOs old school style

Singapore’s Clifford Capital has closed its first securitisation, and is preparing a second, in a bid to establish an infrastructure CLO franchise. Backed by loans from...

17 July 2018
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Telecoms and Communications

KentuckyWired: Testing the line for appropriations risk

A near-death experience for Kentucky's debut US broadband PPP due to rising costs highlights the pitfalls to sponsors of states’ budgeting processes. But PPPs for US...

03 July 2018

Keeping it liquid: Auramet makes ripples in loan market

Precious metals trading is a tough market to survive in without a bulging balance sheet. But in just 14 years Auramet has gone from zero to $11 billion in revenue and has...

25 June 2018

Global project finance trends in 2018

TXF’s Global Project Finance Day in Prague at the start of this month threw out some big numbers on global infrastructure needs as well as some strong predictions on the...

30 May 2018
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Oil & gas

Perfect 10: PetroPeru’s ECA flagday

Taking home TXF’s Best Americas ECA deal of the year, PetroPeru's $1.3 billion CESCE-backed facility had to navigate four changes of government in two countries to...

27 April 2018
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Power

Cometa Energia: Actis learns a lesson in Mexican energy reform

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,...

23 April 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Mind the private infra fund gap

With a new report from the World Bank concluding that the participation rate of institutional investors in infrastructure projects remains low, TXF looks at some of the...

19 April 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Perfect 10 Winners 2017: The big, the bold and the brainy

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...

13 April 2018
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Infrastructure, Transport

Test of ambition: Argentina readies first roads PPPs

As Argentina prepares to award the first roads concessions in its ambitious $25 billion-plus PPP programme, bankers are already working with sponsors on plans to raise...

26 March 2018
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Infrastructure, Transport

Trump’s toll road bonanza

In an otherwise modest series of proposals for US infrastructure are some measures that might increase the number of brownfield assets coming to market. But states –...

07 February 2018
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Power

It's a wrap: InfraCredit debuts with Viathan bond

Donor-backed bond insurer InfraCredit has wrapped its first issue – a N10 billion local currency bond for a Nigerian captive power developer. What are the long-term...

25 January 2018

Time for more Basel-friendly project loan CLOs?

The latest revisions to Basel III are generally good news for banks. But they’ll still have to do more to manage their project finance loan books.

23 January 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Going green: Will sustainable finance hit the commodities mainstream?

Sustainable financing in commodity trade finance has been slow to catch on. But adoption is now key for the market, with early movers in line to reap the benefits of...

21 December 2017
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

SMEs: Where's the tech liquidity solution?

Although the majority of banks believe fintech will cut their compliance costs and improve their ability to risk-assess SMEs, the proportion of small businesses being...

07 December 2017
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Myingyan: Plugging Myanmar's power gap

The Myingyan IPP financing – Myanmar’s debut in the project finance market – has set the blueprint for future deals. But considerable regulatory change is still needed to...

01 December 2017
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Infrastructure, Transport

Nacala Logistic Corridor: a private-private partnership

The largest infrastructure project financing in Africa to date, the complex dual-jurisdiction set of agreements for the $2.7 billion Nacala rail financing has lessons for...

20 October 2017

Colombian infrastructure: Bridging the bankability gap

Colombia’s $70 billion infrastructure programme has hit a few bankability hurdles in the past year. But the government has reacted proactively and is generating...

07 September 2017
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Metals and Mining

Digging for cash: Lithium miners explore debt options

Demand for lithium is ballooning along with technological advances in the battery market. However, limited market expertise among newcomers, the inability to hedge...

25 August 2017
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Transport

I-69: The availability PPP that couldn’t

The US state of Indiana has terminated the contract and paid off the bond debt for the I-69 PPP. Was picking a shaky contractor bad luck or bad judgement? And what...

28 July 2017
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Power

Back to the future: Refinancing launches for Indonesia’s Paiton

Indonesia’s economy is in rude health. Which means time for a refinancing for Paiton, the coal-fired power plant that always captures the zeitgeist in Indonesian power.