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15 April 2016

BEST AMERICAS ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR: Seaborn Networks closes first ECA-backed subsea fibre optic cable deal

Seaborn Networks secured an innovative project financing to fund the establishment of high-speed telecommunications infrastructure between US and Brazil.

11 April 2016
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Telecoms and Communications

Telecoms finance looks to serve the hard to reach corners

The golden age of telecoms finance did not last far into the past decade; but while it lasted, it dominated financing volumes. Three main types of start-up – mobile...

18 March 2016

Bleak outlook for Brazilian exporters and importers

The state of trade, commodity and export finance in Brazil: special correspondent Luis Waldmann looks at the avenues that Brazilian exporters have for export, commodity...

22 February 2016

The dragon in the Andes: China pushes risky LatAm loans

Chinese development banks lent a total of $29.1 billion to Latin America in 2015 – nearly triple the amount of 2014, and more than the combined lending from the...

15 February 2016

Citi’s trade chief: 2015 was the riskiest year to date

In a wide-ranging interview, Citi’s global head of trade, John Ahearn, talks to TXF’s Hesham Zakai about challenging pricing in the market; why 2015 was the riskiest year...

23 October 2015

Trade finance’s secondary market slumps on China slowdown

In spite of the industry-wide push to attract investors to trade finance in recent years, risk distribution in the market has slumped in 2015 as waning flows have seen...

12 October 2015

Renminbi support

The UK government aims to help make London the leading centre for offshore renminbi (RMB) business outside China, not least because the currency has now overtaken the...

12 October 2015

Academic research and export credit insurance

If we think about academic research, we often think about theory development and testing with no or little concern for impact on the real world. We sometimes believe that...

15 September 2015

Why the ECAs should carry on competing with the private-insurance market

Charles Berry, chairman of specialist insurance broker BPL Global, argues that as exporters and banks now often have a choice between ECA and private-sector cover, ECAs...

27 August 2015
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Oil & gas

Update: SACE commits $300 million insurance cover for SBM Brazilian FPSO

The Italian export credit agency, SACE, confirmed today that it would be providing $300 million of insurance cover related to the floating production storage and...

17 August 2015

ABN AMRO appoints country executive for UK

ABN AMRO has appointed Robbert Booij as the new country executive for the United Kingdom and general manager of ABN AMRO Bank UK branch.

06 August 2015

VLG launches Vecron, a new trade finance business unit

Vecron Lordstock Group (VLG), a global structured finance firm specialising in structured trade and project finance, has announced the launching of Vecron Exim, an...

04 August 2015

ABN bolsters commodities division with senior hires

ABN AMRO is continuing to strengthen its energy, commodities & transportation (ECT) division with two senior appointments. The bank has promoted Friso Koopmans as global...

03 August 2015

SACE collaborates with Italian fintech platform Workinvoice

SACE, the Italian export credit agency, has signed a collaboration agreement with digital start-up Workinvoice, the first Italian fintech platform for trading...

31 July 2015

New fund platform to specialise in STCF products

GAO Capital (GAO) has announced a strategic alliance with Straits Financial Group (Straits) to collaborate on GAO Funds, a multi-strategy fund platform with a focus on...

30 July 2015

SBM Offshore turns to ECAs for $1.55bn Brazilian FPSO financing

SBM Offshore, a Dutch supplier of floating production and mooring systems, has completed a $1.55 billion export credit agency (ECA)-backed project financing to finance...

20 July 2015

BPL Global to open Dubai office as part of further expansion

Berry Palmer & Lyle (BPL Global), the specialist credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, is to open a representative office in Dubai as part of the group’s...

08 July 2015

Côte d’Ivoire’s Afriland First Bank gets Afrexim facility for SME onlending

The African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) has signed a €15-million ($16.5 million) financing facility to Afriland First Bank’s Côte d’Ivoire subsidiary for the financing...

01 July 2015

Castleton Commodities closes $3.75 billion credit facilities

US-headquartered, Castleton Commodities International (CCI) has closed two committed credit facilities totalling $3.75 billion. The funds will be used for general...

26 June 2015

Rabobank appoints head of TCF Americas

Rabobank has appointed Muriel Schwab as head trade & commodity finance (TCF) Americas. She takes up the post as of 1 July, and will be based in New York.