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19 October 2016

ADB: Marvin Taylor-Dormond's new independent evaluation role

Marvin Taylor-Dormond has been appointed Asian Development Bank's (ADB) new director-general (DG) of independent evaluation. He succeeds Vinod Thomas, who retired...

18 October 2016

Does the Hinkley Point C financing point to a role for ECAs in new nuclear?

Debt structures for nuclear power plants could evolve beyond government-to-government funding.

14 October 2016

Falvez Energy goes merchant to combine MW and MB

Bringing together data centre and wind farm development, and a merchant wind financing first in Texas.

10 October 2016
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Can the RenovAr renewables programme revive project finance in Argentina?

The new renewables programme is highly structured, and has to erase lenders’ memory of Argentina’s past economic struggles.

03 October 2016

The dos and don’ts of African toll road financing

The number of abandoned African toll road projects far outweighs the successful ones. Have development finance lenders worked out how to make financing them work?

30 September 2016

Tsetsii Wind and Japan’s role in Mongolia’s project finance rebirth

The financing for Newcom and Softbank’s Tsetsii wind farm sees Japan take the lead in supporting Mongolia’s power sector.

19 September 2016

Will Aspire Mining’s Northern Railway put flesh on the bones of One Belt, One Road?

Tom Nelthorpe discusses whether China, Russia and Mongolia can work with a small coal mine developer to make a greenfield rail project a reality.

09 September 2016

What the SH130 bankruptcy says about the state of US infrastructure finance

A Texan bankruptcy court is now examining a restructuring plan for the SH130 toll road, which has become a fascinating case study into the dangers of using Public-Private...

09 September 2016

Hill Dickinson hires partner from Holman Fenwick Willan

Global law firm Hill Dickinson has hired Caroline Thomas, an insurance, shipping and competition law specialist, as a partner in Hong Kong. She joins from Holman...

30 August 2016

Gregory Hutton to head Rabobank's US project finance

Rabobank has appointed Gregory Hutton as regional head of project finance, Americas. Mr Hutton, who will be based in New York, replaces Thomas Emmons.

12 August 2016

TXF Data Update: JBIC most active ECA in H1

The Japanese ECA, JBIC, topped the table by covered volume with 25 transactions totalling $9.68 billion in H1 of 2016, with the German ECA Euler Hermes in second place...

13 July 2016

Thomas Jacquet joins insurer Coface

Credit insurer Coface has appointed Thomas Jacquet as group investor relations & rating agencies director. He succeeds Nicolas Andriopoulos.

26 April 2016

Jim Thomas to lead new Everest insurance unit

Bermuda-based Everest Re Group is growing its insurance platform with the launch of a new credit and political risk business unit. Jim Thomas has been hired from...

22 April 2016

MOST INNOVATIVE ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR: Peru’s Lima Metro taps ECA and PPP model

In a pioneering $800 million deal to finance Peru’s Lima Metro, the borrowers successfully structured a joint ECA and Public Private Partnership, to be crowned as TXF’s...

20 April 2016

Former Berne Union president takes leading role at XL Catlin

Daniel Riordan has been appointed as president, XL Catlin Global Political Risk and Trade Credit. This represents a significant move from the private insurance...

14 April 2016

ECAs propel cruise-ship market boom

Last week, MSC Cruises signed a letter of intent with STX France for the construction of four LNG-powered ships with France's ECA, Coface, backing the $4.5 billion...

09 March 2016

Thomas Cook to help SMEs with cross-border trade deals

Thomas Cook (India) is working with Western Union Business Solutions and India's DCB Bank to help the country's small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with...

12 February 2016

Lundin signs Europe’s largest reserve-based loan

As oil prices reached 12-year lows with wide-ranging consequences for the petroleum industry, Lundin Petroleum (Lundin) sealed the largest-ever reserve-based lending deal...

12 February 2016

Bank-fintech alliances set to revolutionise B2B payments

In a new report just released, it asserts that banks and fintechs should collaborate rather than compete, as a strategy to overcome some of the challenges facing the...

02 February 2016

Receivables finance and the importance of contract due diligence

International law firm Thomas Cooper has examined receivables finance and looked at the importance of due diligence on the underlying sales or customer contracts.