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10 March 2021

Guest opinion: Supply chain finance – reputation in tatters? Deserved or just deflection?

Supply chain finance and particularly payables finance is back in the spotlight after the news flow on Greensill. Is this the death knell for the product or is it a case...

09 March 2021
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Transport

Greensill: What we know - and what we don’t

TXF takes a first look at the great imponderables that have been raised by the fomenting Greensill Capital saga. What do and don’t we know, what are we only able to...

09 March 2021
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Renewables

Equinor and Polenergia submit bids in Polish CfD auction

Equinor and Polenergia have filed bids with the Polish Energy Regulatory Office for their Baltyk 2 and 3 offshore wind projects. Poland's first Contracts...

09 March 2021
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Metals and Mining

Strandline finalises electricity supply agreement for Coburn project

Strandline Resources has executed a 15-year Electricity Supply Agreement with Contract Power Australia for its Coburn mineral sands project, in Western Australia.Under...

09 March 2021

The fall of Greensill Capital: Lessons learned from a credit insurance perspective

Robert Deeley, managing director at PolFin, a specialist credit and political risk insurance broker, takes a closer look at the lessons industry practitioners can learn...

08 March 2021
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Infrastructure, Transport

37 EOIs submitted for Calcasieu River Bridge P3

The Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development (DOTD) has received 37 expressions of interest for its I-10 Calcasieu River Bridge public-private partnership...

05 March 2021
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Transport

Safran signs €500m innovative research loan with EIB

The European Investment Bank has given French aerospace group Safran a €500 million credit line to finance its research into innovative propulsion systems for the...

03 March 2021

Africa: ECAs support headline acts on project finance stage

ECAs upped their support for big-ticket project financings in Africa last year. And there is room for significant export finance growth with a pipeline of projects set to...

03 March 2021
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Metals and Mining

Rio Tinto chairman to quit over caves blast

Rio Tinto chairman Simon Thompson is to step down next year to take responsibility for the destruction of ancient rock shelters, the latest in a string of high-profile...

25 February 2021

ECAs and the once elusive SME: Hunting the Snark?

What has Covid meant for ECAs and their ability to attract smaller companies? How are ECAs responding to the needs of these new clients and how are they broadening their...

24 February 2021
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Power, Renewables

NSW launches Renewable Energy Sector Board

The New South Wales Government has launched its Renewable Energy Sector Board to provide guidance on maximising the economic benefit to the state from its ambitious...

23 February 2021

The complexities of CIRR revealed

TXF Research’s Global Export Finance Industry Report 2021 shows that 42% of the ECAs surveyed have unlimited access to CIRR and that 30% plan to increase their direct...

22 February 2021
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Telecoms and Communications

Smile Telecoms: Debt restructuring in the balance

Smile Telecoms is awaiting one lender’s vote in support of its ECA debt restructuring plan, alongside creditors approval for $51 million of new money from shareholders....

22 February 2021
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Ontario improves commodity loan guarantee programme

The government of Ontario is improving the Commodity Loan Guarantee Program by extending repayment deadlines, increasing lending capacity and providing farmers with...

18 February 2021
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Metals and Mining

Infinity Lithium raises A$15m in placement for San José project

Infinity Lithium Corporation has raised A$15 million (about $11.7 million) through a placement and will issue more than 79.47 million shares at A$0.19 per share to...

11 February 2021
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Telecoms and Communications

Smile Telecoms: Lenders grimace as debt restructuring begins

Smile Telecoms is looking to restructure its DFI/ECA-backed debt package from 2015. But the pan-Afircan telecoms group, which is no stranger to ECA debt, was struggling...

10 February 2021

UK-EU TCA: The Brexit divorce papers continued

The signing of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) marks the first major deal for the UK with a regional trade bloc since its withdrawal from the European...

10 February 2021
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Oil & gas

Tullow Oil offloads West African assets to Panoro

Tullow Oil has signed two separate sale and purchase agreements with Panoro Energy for all of its oil-producing assets in Equatorial Guinea and the Dussafu asset in...

29 January 2021

David Maule retires from Miller Insurance

David Maule, a well-known and highly respected credit and political risk insurance broker with specialist insurance and reinsurance firm Miller Insurance in London is...

29 January 2021

The growing role of EXIM Hungary

TXF spoke to Gergely Jakli, CEO and chairman of the board of directors at EXIM Hungary, to outline the increasing range of ECA activities in the Covid era, like the...