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04 December 2017

Call for more attention on insurance as Palmer & Harvey goes into administration

Trade credit insurance has been thrust into the spotlight after another high-profile firm collapsed. Palmer & Harvey, the food and tobacco wholesaler and the largest...

04 December 2017

Another global insurer predicts slowdown, higher trade finance costs

What are the world's trade finance insurance companies seeing that are perhaps not on the radar of some economists and market strategists? After Amsterdam-based...

04 December 2017

Texel Finance celebrates 20 years of growth

London-headquartered insurance broker Texel Finance is about to celebrate 20 years in the business as of 1 December. TXF editor-in-chief Jonathan Bell, caught up with...

04 December 2017

Central African Republic is Afreximbank’s latest participating state

The number of African countries represented on the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) as participating states and/or shareholders has risen to 49 with the...

04 December 2017
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Infrastructure, Transport

Victoria approves $5.5bn West Gate tunnel for Melbourne

The Planning Minister has announced the environmental approval for the $5.5 billion West Gate Tunnel project underneath Yarraville in the West Melbourne, Australia,...

04 December 2017
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Renewables

EPS agrees loan for Kostolac wind farm in Serbia

Serbian state-owned utility ElektroprivredaSrbije (EPS) has signed a €80 million loan agreement with the German development bank KfW to construct a 66MW wind farm at...

04 December 2017
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Renewables

KOEN signs up for 600MW offshore wind project

Korea South-East Power (KOEN) has signed a memorandum of understanding to build a 600MW wind farm as part of the Wando Island 5GW Wind Power Generation project in the...

04 December 2017
in
Renewables

PFC raises $400m through maiden green bonds issue

State-run Power Finance Corp (PFC), tasked with providing assistance to power projects across India, has raised $400 million through a maiden green bonds issue that will...

04 December 2017

Korea hikes bilateral concessional loans to Sri Lanka to $500m

South Korea has increased bilateral concessional loans for Sri Lanka, from $300 million to $500 million through the Export-Import Bank of Korea. Priority will be...

04 December 2017

New CEO announced for African potash junior Danakali

CEO of potash junior Danakali, Paul Donaldson, will transition from his role as CEO and MD to non-executive director, before the end of 2017. Danny Goeman, a highly...

04 December 2017

EIB grants loan to Raiffeisenverband Salzburg

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is granting Raiffeisenverband Salzburg (RVS) a loan of €38 million. This transaction will provide RVS with long-term funding...

04 December 2017

NIB lends for municipal investments in Tartu, Estonia

Nordic Investment Bank and the City of Tartu in Estonia have signed a €20 million loan agreement with a tenor of up to 20 years to finance municipal investments in...

04 December 2017

Olam sells Californian edible nuts farmland assets for $110m

Singapore-headquartered Olam International has received $110 million from the sale of 5,100 acres of edible nuts farmland assets in California to Farmland Partners. Olam...

04 December 2017

AfDB loans €150m for development of 420-MW Nachtigal hydro in Cameroon

The African Development Bank has approved a $178.3 million loan to help finance development of the 420MW Nachtigal hydro power project in Cameroon. Nachtigal will be a...

04 December 2017
in
Renewables

CIP partners on Star of the South wind project

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) on behalf of the Copenhagen Infrastructure III K/S fund has entered into an agreement with Offshore Energy Pty to partner on...

04 December 2017
in
Infrastructure, Power, Waste and water

Fujairah 1 IWPP bond closed at 4.45%

The $400 million Fujairah 1 IWPP bond refinancing closed last week at the lower end of revised pricing following around $2.3 billion of orders. Globally coordinated by...

01 December 2017

Opportunity of the day: Argentina renewable energy tender sees 66 projects awarded totaling 1.41GW

Genneia SA, Parque Arauco SAPEM, Central Puerto SA, YPF SA, Envision Energy Limited, 360Energy, and Monteverdi and Gray Group Limited were awarded contracts to build...

01 December 2017
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Infrastructure, Transport

Nacala Logistic Corridor: a private-private partnership

The largest infrastructure project financing in Africa to date, the complex dual-jurisdiction set of agreements for the $2.7 billion Nacala rail financing has lessons for...

01 December 2017
in
Infrastructure, Transport

Lamu-Isiolo road PPP concession awarded

Kenya National Highways Authority (KNHA) and the Lamu Road Consortium (comprising Group Five Proprietary Ltd, a South African group of investors and Development Bank of...

01 December 2017

UKEF to launch new supply chain product

New minister for trade and export promotion, Baroness Rona Fairhead, today announced that UKEF are to launch a new product to support UK exporters and their supply...