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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...

23 July 2015

Akbank AG squeezes relationship banks on new refi

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...

22 July 2015

EKF and KfW IPEX-Bank team for second Uruguayan wind farm

KfW IPEX-Bank, the international export and project financier, has collaborated with Danish export credit agency Eksport Kredit Fonden (EKF) to provide senior-debt...

15 July 2015

CEFC finances DeGrussa copper mine solar project in Western Australia

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...

13 July 2015

A multilateral view of trade finance

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...

13 July 2015

Sarulla: unearthing Indonesia's geothermal potential

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...

18 June 2015

Banks need to make supply chain finance more ‘user-friendly’

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...

16 June 2015

UKEF and Falcon partner for British exports

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...

12 June 2015

All hail… the TXF Best in Class

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...

29 May 2015

Jumping hurdles: Sprint’s ECA trifecta

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.

28 May 2015

ERC: connecting Ethiopia with a benchmark financing

BEST AFRICAN ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon examines the details of ERC’s Awash-Weldia/Hara Gebeya Railway project in Ethiopia.

28 May 2015

KIPP: truly out of Africa

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...

26 May 2015

Introducing… the TXF Chronicle

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...

14 May 2015

BBVA welcomes new head of global trade finance

Spanish bank BBVA has appointed Francisco Javier Fernández de Trocóniz as its new head of global trade finance & international financial institutions, replacing the...

30 April 2015

Democrats mobilise to force vote on US Ex-Im reauthorisation

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...

22 April 2015

Schmand to take helm at ICC Banking Commission

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...

16 April 2015

Investment firms provide shot in the arm for PrimeRevenue

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...

16 April 2015

NAB debuts Bolero ePresentation into India

National Australia Bank has inaugurated the world’s first electronic presentation of documents (ePresentation) into India sent over Bolero’s digital trade finance...

14 April 2015

GE to offload most of GE Capital as regulations hit home

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...

13 April 2015

Euler Hermes names new CEO in UK and directors for World Agency and APAC region

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...