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13 September 2018
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Metals and Mining

Ukraine structured trade: Talk is cheaper

Over the past 12 months Ukrainian commodity-linked borrowers have made a comeback in the international debt markets – driving down margins and extending tenors. But it...

31 August 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

DFI-ECA cooperation: The key to bridging Africa’s infra gap

ECAs and DFIs are showing an increased risk appetite for African exposures, especially on large-scale project financings. However, these policy-driven financial...

30 August 2018
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Oil & gas, Power

LNG-to-power: Turning up Bangladesh’s power supply

Bangladesh’s DFI-backed LNG-to-power project financings are the government's answer to depleting domestic gas reserves and fast-growing power needs. But, the integrated...

27 August 2018
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Oil & gas

Southern Gas Corridor: The funding tap that keeps on giving

Despite Moody’s rating downgrade for the $41.5 billion Southern Gas Corridor in 2017 amid ongoing concerns over Azerbaijan’s creditworthiness and politics, the scheme has...

22 August 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

Turkey turmoil raises difficult questions

The Turkish economy has been overheating. Mounting external debt and the mismanagement of the economy has caused the Turkish Lira to plummet against the US dollar and...

15 August 2018

Global Commodity Finance H1 2018 Report: Oil and gas volumes swell

According to TXF Data's latest number crunching oil and gas commodity financing volumes increased by $9 billion in H1 2018 compared to the same period last year. And...

15 August 2018

US wages economic war against Iran

With the United States' first wave of economic sanctions on Iran already having a heavy impact on the Iranian economy, Jonathan Bell looks at how this will also affect...

14 August 2018

Risky business podcast: From east to west

From the recent election in Pakistan to Trump’s tariffs, Dr. Rebecca Harding of Coreolis Technologies highlights the economic and political risk factors behind our latest...

06 August 2018

Risky business podcast: Navigating Africa's hot waters

Dr. Rebecca Harding of Coreolis Technologies outlines and analyses the economic and political risk factors behind TXF's latest Country Risk Ratings for Sub Saharan Africa...

01 August 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power

Miners dig in to resolve African resource nationalism challenges

This week's edition of The Week That Was focuses on recent problems being caused by resource nationalism in Africa's mining sector

25 July 2018
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Infrastructure, Transport

UK rolling stock financing: Are institutional debt providers being realistic about the risks?

Coextensive with an influx of new rolling stock lessors into the UK rail market, institutional debt providers are lending for 20-plus years to fund UK rolling stock...

19 July 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

Credit where it's due: the new LMA Export Credit Agency Buyer Credit Facility Agreement explained

Kam Mahil, legal director at the Loan Market Association (LMA) and Ashley McDermott, senior associate at Clifford Chance, outline the methodology, and potential cost and...

19 July 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

US-China get electric on the auto front

Jonathan Bell, Editor-in-Chief at TXF gives us his take on news that Tesla is to build an EV Gigafactory in Shanghai, as well as a review of TXF's market coverage 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...

18 June 2018

TXF Commodities Amsterdam 2018: CMS sees the positive in Ukraine

TXF caught up with Mark Segall, a partner at CMS, to find out more about the revival of Ukraine's commodity finance market, changes in structured trade finance in Russia,...

12 June 2018
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Renewables

Paradise gained: MPC Capital’s second-mover advantage

Having just reached financial close on a DFI-backed deal for the Paradise Park solar project in Jamaica, German asset manager MPC is carving itself a reputation as an...

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...

01 June 2018

Can export finance be a ‘force for good’? New TXF podcast released

TXF's second export finance podcast of 2018 asks whether the industry is, or can be, a force for good? This is the final discussion before our 2018 live show at TXF...

31 May 2018

Beyond the wild west in factoring

Peter Mulroy, Secretary General of FCI spoke to Katharine Morton at the ICC banking commission annual meeting in Miami about how trust is helping factoring move beyond...