Year in review: Commodity finance
Jonathan Bell, TXF’s editor-in-chief, picks his favourite commodity finance stories of 2016.
Jonathan Bell, TXF’s editor-in-chief, picks his favourite commodity finance stories of 2016.
Tom Nelthorpe, TXF's project & infrastructure finance (P&IF) guest editor, picks his favourite P&IF stories of 2016.
Some US merchant power plants have lurched from one crisis to another since they were built and financed a decade and a half ago. Despite the twin threat of low gas...
Credit enhancement on the Elazig hospital PPP financing shows how bonds could help emerging markets projects take off.
Estonian and Chinese technology – and Chinese financing – will be crucial to a financing in a niche fossil fuel sector.
Dutch-listed fertiliser producer OCI has completed a tender for $147 million of the bonds issued by its Iowa Fertilizer project. The tender, for a series of bonds that...
The COP22 United Nations Climate Change conference in Marrakech last week saw Saudi Arabian developer ACWA sign agreements for three photovoltaic power projects in...
The bank financing for a Texas water pipeline recovers from the loss of its original developer. By Tom Nelthorpe.
A first-of-its-kind issue tests out several environmental finance concepts, but more development will be required before bonds become useful to the forestry sector.
A Lebanese developer, the UK’s CDC and the World Bank put together a frontier market independent power project template.
When the famous Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson opined, “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant,” he encapsulated the need...
US-based infrastructure fund scoops up assets from departing US utility.
Hancock Prospecting made its reputation in iron ore – and closing a huge ECA-backed project financing. Can it help get a British potash project off the ground?
Australia’s New South Wales pronounces itself happy with an all-local bid for its prize electricity transmission asset.
Debt structures for nuclear power plants could evolve beyond government-to-government funding.
Bringing together data centre and wind farm development, and a merchant wind financing first in Texas.
The new renewables programme is highly structured, and has to erase lenders’ memory of Argentina’s past economic struggles.
The number of abandoned African toll road projects far outweighs the successful ones. Have development finance lenders worked out how to make financing them work?
The financing for Newcom and Softbank’s Tsetsii wind farm sees Japan take the lead in supporting Mongolia’s power sector.
Tom Nelthorpe discusses whether China, Russia and Mongolia can work with a small coal mine developer to make a greenfield rail project a reality.
Bill Caudle, president of Bechtel Enterprises, discusses his role, the company’s position as an EPC contractor and deal catalyst, and how, in a time of global inflation, ECA and DFI finance can help avoid projects being ‘pushed to the right’ [delayed].