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09 November 2020

The world’s first outcomes-driven gender bond

IDB Invest, which structured the bond for Colombian bank Davivienda, believes the landmark issuance will catalyse the wider gender-linked bonds market in Latin America.

27 October 2020
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Infrastructure, Transport

A49: A question of roads support

The recent A49 road PPP concession financing is the third of Germany's new generation availability-based road schemes to close. All three have been heavily backed by the...

13 October 2020
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Renewables

Huemul: A taste of DFI debt

The Huemul renewable financing in Chile - the second phase of Mainstream's Andes Renovables portfolio of wind and solar projects - has significant DFI backing despite its...

16 September 2020
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Metals and Mining

Oyu Tolgoi furthers funding pit

Rio Tinto via its ownership of Turquoise Hill Resources has finally inked an agreement for the additional financing of the long-dated Oyu Tolgoi mining project in...

10 June 2020
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Infrastructure, Transport

SGR - on track to create economic growth in Tanzania

The $1.4 billion DFI/ECA-backed financing of the pathfinder Tanzania standard gauge railway (SGR) project marks the African country's largest ever infra scheme to date....

26 May 2020

Keynote: Caterpillar on spreading the ECA umbrella

TXF spoke with Tim Gaul, global export finance director, export and agency finance at Caterpillar to outline what the reauthorisation of US Exim means for the US...

05 May 2020

Can DFIs stretch to combating Covid-19 and climate change?

Development banks have been at the forefront of dealing with climate change. Now they’re in the front line of the Covid-19 response. Will the development finance...

04 May 2020

Sweden Africa Chamber: ECAs to step up in Africa amid pandemic

Angelica Adamski, director at the Sweden Africa Chamber and a member of the board at Svenska Aerogel, says collaboration amongst Swedish exporters is key to promoting...

28 April 2020

Shop talk: EASTvine – the rise of the small and flexible trade fund

TXF spoke with EASTvine Capital, a small alternative fund set up in Singapore in 2018 by three ex-bankers who saw an opportunity to fill the commodity trade finance...

14 April 2020

Shop talk: Preugschat on the road to recovering ECA debt

TXF spoke with Kai Preugschat, Asia Pacific director at Recovery Advisers, based in Singapore, to outline his role at the international dispute resolution law firm that...

06 April 2020

Sustainable evolution of digital trade requires digital-first regulation

Planned US and UK trade negotiations have the potential to shape the future of data trade by reaching consensus on how to regulate blockchain, writes R3’s Alisa DiCaprio.

01 April 2020
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Metals and Mining

Rusal pioneers the market with ‘green’ aluminium financing

Winning the Russian Commodities Finance Deal of the Year Award is aluminium producer Rusal with its $1.085 billion pre-export financing. Rusal has changed the benchmark...

01 April 2020
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Power

Nayara Energy’s new pre-pay era?

Winning TXF’s Energy Commodities Finance Deal of the Year, Nayara Energy’s first pre-payment loan is set to serve as a viable financing template for commodity-linked...

16 March 2020
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Oil & gas

Keynote: Discussing necessary evils with Linde

Linde’s head of export and project finance, Gernot Bruch says international banks are no longer seeing his transactions as a ‘necessary evil’. There are other necessary...

12 March 2020
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Renewables

Sustainable deals in spotlight: Huong Linh 1

In the first edition of TXF’s new Deal in Spotlight feature, we caught up with LBBW, the sole lender on the 33MW Huong Linh 1 onshore wind farm in Vietnam, to find out...

02 March 2020
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Infrastructure, Telecoms and Communications, Transport

Keynote: Opening up EKN's one-stop guarantees shop

EKN had a banner year in 2019. EKN’s director general, Anna-Karin Jatko tells TXF about the rise of supplier credits for larger contracts, and how as part of ‘Team...

26 February 2020

Coronavirus and global trade: In viro veritas?

The new coronavirus, Covid-19, is shining a light on just how connected global trade is to the world’s second largest economy. TXF takes a look at how China will...

24 February 2020
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Infrastructure

Keynote: Finnvera CEO on cruising concentration risk

Finnvera’s CEO Pauli Heikkila talks to TXF about how the Finnish ECA’s increased exposure to the cruise ship sector drove much of its stellar growth in 2019. Should...

03 February 2020
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Power, Transport

Keynote: SERV’s CEO thinking outside the box

What does being a modern ECA mean? Peter Gisler, CEO of SERV has strong views on the Swiss ECA’s ability to be proactive, flexible and to think outside the proverbial box...

08 January 2020

Keynote: Teaching risk to rocket scientists at NASA, it’s a blast!

Ahead of TXF Americas next month, TXF caught up with Dr Jeevan Perera, a senior engineer at NASA, to find out how he teaches risk management to rocket scientists.