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31 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities

ADM quarterly profit rise 70% to $341m

Chicago-headquartered Archer Daniels Midland's quarterly profit jumped 70% to $341 million in the second-quarter due to strong demand for soybean meal. Profits...

26 July 2018

Back of the net: The stated goals of export finance

TXF's third export finance podcast of 2018 discusses the industry goals of five export finance practitioners over the coming years.

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...

03 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities

ADM to buy French animal nutrition business Neovia for $1.8bn

Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is in exclusive talks to take over French animal feed business Neovia for €1.5 billion as part of the US farm giant's...

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,...

18 June 2018

Analysis: Trade wars put squeeze on commodity trading houses

Large-scale commodity trading houses are feeling the heat of escalating trade disputes - as sabre rattling between the US and China intensifies, leaving many trading...

12 June 2018

Zsuzsanna Hargitai is new EBRD Director for Western Balkans

Zsuzsanna Hargitai has taken over as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's new Director for the Western Balkans. Based in Belgrade, she will also...

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,...

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...

23 May 2018

Trade risk: Two measures in one

TXF’s Katharine Morton caught up with Daniel Schmand, chair of the ICC Banking Commission and global head of trade finance at Deutsche Bank, at the ICC Annual Meeting in...

17 May 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities

ADM, Bunge say they can navigate US-China trade tensions

Grain merchants Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge can withstand agricultural trade disruptions arising from US-China tensions and potentially profit from them, company...

10 May 2018
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Trafigura takes first look at China’s Panda bond market – at a price

Trafigura has closed its debut renminbi-denominated Panda bond which marks the first commodity trader to tap China’s nascent onshore capital market. The three-year issue...

08 May 2018

ICC’s Schmand: Focus on non-financial risk measurement before saying trade finance is low risk (12 mins)

Daniel Schmand, chair of the ICC Banking Commission and global head of trade finance at Deutsche Bank caught up with TXF’s Katharine Morton at the ICC Annual Meeting in...

02 May 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities

ADM reveals Q1 profit rise of $393m

Chicago-headquartered trader Archer Daniels Midland has announced a first quarter profit of $393 million - $0.70 per share - compared to $339 million, or $0.59 per share,...

25 April 2018
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Transport

Vinci to buy Airports Worldwide portfolio

Vinci Airports is to acquire a portfolio of nine airports in the US, UK, Costa Rica and Sweden from Airports Worldwide. The portfolio includes sole freehold...

17 April 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Sucden cocoa boss Chambers stops trading after 50 years

Derek Chambers, the head of cocoa at Sucres et Denrees (Sucden), ended his involvement in front-line trading this month after a career spanning half a century. He's...

13 April 2018
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Infrastructure, Transport

Test of ambition: Argentina readies first roads PPPs

As Argentina prepares to award the first roads concessions in its ambitious $25 billion-plus PPP programme, bankers are already working with sponsors on plans to raise...

29 March 2018

German tax office examining ADM over legacy trading earnings

Hamburg’s tax office is examining the German activities of US agri-trader Archer Daniels Midland over a five-year period.

21 March 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Senior grain trader Gert Bosscher leaves Bunge

Gert Bosscher, a senior grain trader for the Black Sea region at US-based Bunge, has left the company - at a time when the group is struggling in one of the...

20 March 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities

ADM restructures business groups as grain margins falter

Chicago-based Archer Daniels Midland is to restructure its business into four new units - carbohydrate solutions, nutrition, oilseeds and origination - to differentiate...