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26 June 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

Private wealth: Bridging the infrastructure and trade gaps?

On paper the demand should be there – a mix of low default short tenor and long tenor assets make trade and infrastructure a logical mix for private wealth investors. But...

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...

20 June 2018

Sunny with the chance of showers? Insuring the future of commodity trade

The commodity trading landscape is changing, as are the needs to insure risk by both commodity traders and producers. Katharine Morton spoke to brokers, insurers and the...

07 June 2018

Argentinean PPP: Investors stay focused

Despite Argentina's recent FX troubles, investor appetite for its new $26 billion PPP programme remains strong – in part because investors are taking a long term view,...

06 June 2018

Out of the sandbox: Creating the right tools for the job

Financial regulators across Europe, North America and Asia are adopting a variety of strategies to encourage the development of financial technology in their...

05 June 2018

Change of clothing: Can ECAs become champions of sustainability?

The ICC has established a working group aimed at fostering a greater sustainable development agenda in export finance. Is it just tinkering? And does it have any chance...

07 May 2018

Perfect 10: Trafigura’s prepay complexity

Winning TXF’s Best Commodity Trader Finance Deal of the Year, Trafigura sealed a complex $250 million two-step pre-payment loan in 2018 to finance the procurement of...

07 May 2018

Perfect 10: Yibal extends borrowing options in the Middle East

In an amend-and-extend of a previous PXF for crude oil exports, the government of Oman was able to secure the same cost of funding despite a dramatic deterioration of its...

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...

05 April 2018

PSD2: Big change – little consensus

The regulatory changes prompted by PSD2 represent an opportunity for corporate treasury to change the way they interact with their supply chain and customers, as well as...

12 March 2018
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Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Transport

The pits – but not for much longer

Lending demand from South Africa’s mining sector has been sluggish at best – a symptom of poor economic governance, a new mining charter verging on the absurd and the...

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.

19 January 2018

TXF Private Insurance talk: Atradius on tailoring insurance for trade

TXF caught up with Olivier David, head of special products at Atradius, to find out more about their tailored credit and political risk insurance products and why data...

28 November 2017
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Oil & gas

Sorting Sonangol?

Despite a complete overhaul of management at Sonangol - most notably the removal of Isabel dos Santos as chairperson - the ongoing refinancing of the state-owned oil...

06 November 2017
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Renewables

El Salvador PV: Keeping costs down

In anticipation of new renewable energy auctions for large-scale projects in December or January 2018, El Salvador has continued to progress in the project space despite...

26 October 2017

Local support in a global market

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has expanded its local currency offering – enabling more overseas buyers to buy UK and pay in locally denominated debt.

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...

22 May 2017

Crown slips again: Noble trading ability hit by downgrade

Downgraded in the middle of major refinancings, Noble is looking at tighter covenants, a higher cost of debt for 2017 and a hit on its ability to trade competitively -...

11 May 2017

Latin American oil and gas: A Pemexican standoff?

Pemex kicked off 2017 with a record-breaking eurobond and the announcement of a halving of losses in 2016. The debt-ridden oil producer has even put in place an...