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26 October 2018
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Transport

Shop talk: ING Capital looking through new ECA windows

Following a tightly priced UKEF-backed deal in the aviation sector this month, TXF spoke with Gemma Bae, head of structured export finance at ING Capital, to discuss the...

24 October 2018

FEX: The London chapter

Future of Export Finance (FEX), a new platform aimed at transferring knowledge and talent to the younger generation of the export finance industry, has opened its second...

16 October 2018
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Renewables

European offshore wind: Solving the zero-subsidy wind conundrum

Two recent European offshore wind financings – Borssele III and IV and Hornsea 1 – demonstrated growing bank and institutional investor appetite for two different sets of...

10 October 2018

RBS chief executive McEwan calls for SME lending regulation

Ross McEwan, the chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), has called for small business lending to be regulated in the UK, despite avoiding disciplinary...

26 September 2018

UPDATE: Fonzi's weekly facts, figures and forecasts

TXF Data's top lending opportunities, latest Category A projects under consideration by ECAs, and provisional CIRR trends are here for this week.

07 September 2018

Hartford names head of credit and political risk

Jared Kotler has been named as head of credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) at the Hartford. The move marks the US-based investment and insurance...

31 August 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

DFI-ECA cooperation: The key to bridging Africa’s infra gap

ECAs and DFIs are showing an increased risk appetite for African exposures, especially on large-scale project financings. However, these policy-driven financial...

22 August 2018
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Renewables

Argentina catches second ECA wind deal

Following the closure of the first two ECA-backed onshore wind facilities in Argentina this year, and a spate of multilateral and ECA deals expected to close over the...

17 August 2018

Cat A projects under consideration by ECAs this week

For those taking environmental change to heart, TXF Data has been tracking Category A projects under consideration by ECAs every week. Click here to see this week's...

16 August 2018

TXF Global: Lending patterns in a liquid market

In a climate of surplus liquidity, TXF Global questions how long debt pricing compression will last and examines the lending patterns of ECAs, banks and institutional...

08 August 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

China-US trade punches

Last week's announcement that China plans to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion worth of US goods points to a heating up of the trade war between the two countries....

31 July 2018

S&W Breakfast: Drafting documentation to diminish risk

Sullivan & Worcester's partner Geoffrey Wynne and trainee Ali Siddiqui explore the ways lenders can mitigate risk through the careful drafting of loan documentation. The...

26 July 2018

Shop talk: Russian innovation in the fight for new lending business

Margin and fee compression in the Russian corporate, project and export finance markets is forcing Russian banks to innovate, refocus and fight hard for new business....

05 July 2018
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Renewables

Cerro Grande wind financed

Ladaner, sponsored by EAB New Energy and Enercon, has reached financial close on a $69.5 million loan from Banco Santander and CaixaBank to finance the 51.7MW Cerro...

01 July 2018

S&W Breakfast briefing: The importance of SPVs in trade finance

In the latest edition of law firm Sullivan & Worcester’s Trade Finance Breakfast Seminar, partner Geoffrey Wynne and senior associate Sam Fowler-Holmes discuss SPVs and...

30 May 2018
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Oil & gas

Perfect 10: TAP pips pipeline politics

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) project is a deserved winner of TXF’s Best ECA-Backed oil and gas award after project sponsors sealed a heavily ECA/DFI-backed €3.76...

30 May 2018
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Oil & gas

Perfect 10: PetroPeru’s ECA flagday

Taking home TXF’s Best Americas ECA deal of the year, PetroPeru's $1.3 billion CESCE-backed facility had to navigate four changes of government in two countries to...

30 May 2018
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Oil & gas

Perfect 10: A sovereign solution

Winning TXF’s Best Middle Eastern ECA deal of the year, the MIDOR expansion financing came in with solid ECA-backed pricing despite a list of hurdles in its two-year...

30 May 2018
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Oil & gas

Perfect 10: Duqm, a slick blended financing

Taking home TXF’s Best Overall ECA deal of the year, government-backed sponsors of the Duqm oil refinery in Oman sealed a multi-billion dollar, multi-sourced...

26 March 2018
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Infrastructure, Transport

Trump’s toll road bonanza

In an otherwise modest series of proposals for US infrastructure are some measures that might increase the number of brownfield assets coming to market. But states –...