Commodity trader Trafigura has taken big steps into the Indian market with their downstream acquisition of Essar Oil alongside sanctioned oil producer Rosneft. The...
The size of the target – 15, 35 or 43 gigawatts (GW) – is open to dispute, but there is less argument about whether the Indonesian government is serious about its plans...
GT Law’s Gilles Thieffrey provides an update on the impact of Basel III on commodity trade finance and asserts that it will reshape the way commodity trade is being...
GTLaw recently won a major arbitration victory for an international oil-trading house over the alleged breach of an oil supply and processing contract. The damages...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $20 million loan, to partly finance the working capital of Medsofts, a family-owned company...
Serbian and Slovenian fruit producers are set to benefit with new funding from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed a $25 million loan for the Trans-Oil Group of companies (Trans-Oil Group), a leading agricultural...
The number of Agricultural Investment Funds (AIFs) has increased significantly over the past decade, alongside an increase in the world’s population and food demand....
Turkey’s agricultural sector has received a boost with a €25 million ($34.7 million) loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The funds will...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a new debt facility to Ukrainian agribusiness producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP Group).
Structured commodity financier Gilles Sayer has joined Essar as managing director of Peak Trading Overseas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Essar Global Fund. In this...
The 20-year debt facilities for the largest non-recourse offshore wind financing in Asia may not have been possible without the support of seven ECAs.
The global backdrop to wind has been looking shaky of late. Project financing backing the Baltic Power project has just signed – but the rest of the first wave of Poland’s embryonic offshore wind sector is facing delays. The country originally promised as much as 28GW by 2050 but the chances of success now look mixed due to inflation and critical cost increases.
In an interview with Laurent Christophe, group treasurer at Trafigura, discussion focused on Ukraine, sustainability, and tapping into new sources of capital diversification. Some highlights from the interview and conference follow.
The 20-year debt facilities for the largest non-recourse offshore wind financing in Asia may not have been possible without the support of seven ECAs.
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