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21 December 2015

EBRD seals financing for Polish wind farm

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is arranging a financing package for the Banie Wind Farm renewables project in Poland. The EBRD is...

Perspective
21 December 2015

Scenarios for the future of sustainable trade

There are two distinct possibilities for the future of sustainable trade. One is a positive vision in which deeper globalisation trumps protectionism, and the march of...

News
21 December 2015

Danish ECA EKF increases premiums for credits

EKF, Denmark's export credit agency, will introduce a 25% rise on premiums for credits below DKK 25 million from the beginning of next year. The change applies to...

Perspective
21 December 2015
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Infrastructure, Other, Transport

SG appoints global head of infrastructure finance

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has appointed Hervé Le Corre as the new global head of infrastructure finance. He will be based in Paris and take...

Perspective
18 December 2015

Orpic signs contracts for Oman’s $6.4bn Liwa plastics complex

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) has signed agreements to build, operate and finance the $6.4 billion Liwa Plastic Industries Complex (LPIC)...

Perspective
18 December 2015
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Transport

Coface backs first ATR aircraft bond

Singapore based aircraft lessor, Transportation Partners, has issued a $143.7 million bond guaranteed by French export credit agency (ECA) Coface to refinance 10 ATR...

News
18 December 2015

Yuan grows but US dollar dominates global payments

The US dollar remains the dominant currency in global payments, accounting for 51.9% of currency usage overall by value, according to SWIFT. But flows of the Chinese...

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18 December 2015

Total, Vitol, Trafigura win Nigeria oil contracts

Swiss-based traders Trafigura and Vitol, along with France's Total, were among 21 companies handed crude oil term lifting contracts for 2016 by Nigerian National...

News
18 December 2015

DBS and Standard Chartered work on blockchain tech

Standard Chartered and DBS Bank have teamed up to develop a blockchain platform for trade finance in Singapore. The distributed ledger technology is designed to speed...

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18 December 2015

WTO to ditch tariffs on information technology exports

More than 50 developed and developing country partners at the World Trade Organisation have announced the expansion of the Information Technology Agreement. The move...

News
18 December 2015

India's IDFC Bank takes on Intellect's transaction suite

IDFC Bank - India's newest bank - has implemented the Global Transaction Banking solution suite by financial technologies group, Intellect Design Arena. The suite...

News
18 December 2015

China agrees Pakistan mining and power plant loan

China has approved a $1.2 billion investment for the mining of 3.8 million tonnes per annum of coal and the setting up of a 660MW coal-fired power plant in Tharparkar,...

News
18 December 2015

KfW IPEX provides funds for new Birmingham hospital

German export and project finance bank KfW IPEX-Bank is providing £68 million to support the construction of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Birmingham....

News
18 December 2015

EDC: Canadian exporters optimistic despite economic fears

Exporters in Canada are confident their sales will rise over the next six months - despite many believing that global economic conditions will worsen, according to...

Perspective
18 December 2015

Expanded Trade Register emphasises trade finance’s low risk

The International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Banking Commission has released its 2015 Trade Register. The report, the fifth of its kind, tripled the value of...

Perspective
17 December 2015

Glencore: An existential crisis

After its IPO in 2011, commodities behemoth Glencore appeared a few years shy of gaining special-observer status at the UN. Today, its stock sits at around a sixth of the...

Perspective
17 December 2015

TXF to host one day Ex-Im conference in New York

TXF has announced a one-day conference dedicated solely to US Ex-Im following the North American ECA’s recent reauthorisation.

News
17 December 2015

Alfa-Bank secures first US dollar loan with ICBC

Russia's Alfa-Bank has drawn down its first lending in US dollars from a Russian subsidiary of the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to provide...

News
17 December 2015

ADB to speed loans amid reform package

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved reforms to improve and quicken its delivery of loans to member countries. The enhancements include greater use of...

News
17 December 2015

Allied World launches global crisis management

Swiss-based Allied World Assurance Company has launched a new global crisis management division, comprised of structured trade credit, political risk, multi-buyer...