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...
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...
Akbank AG, the Frankfurt-based subsidiary of Turkey’s Akbank, today announced the closure of a $205 million-equivalent, dual-currency club loan. The one-year refinancing...
KfW IPEX-Bank, the international export and project financier, has collaborated with Danish export credit agency Eksport Kredit Fonden (EKF) to provide senior-debt...
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is committing up to $15 million for the development of the 10.6MW solar plant with 6MW of battery storage at Sandfire...
With multilateral finance institutions and development banks becoming increasingly prominent figures in the world of trade finance, Ollie Gordon caught up with the EIB’s...
MOST INNOVATIVE ECA/PROJECT FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon examines Indonesia's Sarulla Geothermal Power Plant project financing, which charts new territory for...
Despite the rising popularity of supply chain finance (SCF) around the globe, banks are not making their programmes easier enough for customers to implement and are...
Specialist trade and corporate financier Falcon Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with British export credit agency (ECA) UK Export Finance (UKEF) with the...
June is a month that is always jam-packed with highly-publicised sporting accomplishments. With leagues and tournaments of every variety coming to a climatic end in the...
BEST AMERICAS ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon assesses the structuring that was required to deliver success for the Sprint telecoms financing in the US.
BEST AFRICAN ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon examines the details of ERC’s Awash-Weldia/Hara Gebeya Railway project in Ethiopia.
BEST DFI DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon discovers how agencies and banks worked together to develop the unique financing structure for the KIPP power plant financing in...
As with any given seven-day period in the modern age of news reportage, last week was chock-a-block full of current affairs shockers, geopolitical wranglings, cyclical...
Spanish bank BBVA has appointed Francisco Javier Fernández de Trocóniz as its new head of global trade finance & international financial institutions, replacing the...
The US’ House of Democrats today set in motion a process to bypass the House Republican leadership that would force a vote on legislation to the extend the charter of the...
The International Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business organisation, has today named Deutsche Bank’s Daniel Schmand as the new chair of its Banking...
PrimeRevenue, the provider of SaaS-based working capital finance solutions, has completed a $80 million financing round co-led by BBH Capital Partners, a private equity...
National Australia Bank has inaugurated the world’s first electronic presentation of documents (ePresentation) into India sent over Bolero’s digital trade finance...
US multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) has announced it will sell off the bulk of assets in its sprawling financial arm GE Capital by 2018, as it looks to...
Trade credit insurance company Euler Hermes has appointed a new UK chief executive officer and two new senior members to its market management commercial and distribution...
The Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO) has the ‘gift of wind’ which has helped it position itself as a changemaker in renewable energy financing. But it’s not all been plain sailing for offshore wind, and the ECA has recently restructured. Peder Lundquist, CEO, discusses the challenges, diversification opportunities, and the strategic importance of ‘professional pessimism’.