The bank that liked to say yes too often, BNDES is under new management and has a new mission: to do more to promote effective infrastructure investment with less money....

A serial user of ECA and DFI debt, Carbon Holdings CEO Basil El-Baz expects to reach financial close on the $10.8 billion Tahrir Petrochemicals project by the end of the...

Could a 20-digit LEI number help banks cut their KYC and compliance costs while narrowing the SME trade finance gap? Yes – but not until regulators get behind it.

Blended finance techniques have been around for some time. But it is only recently that DFIs and the private sector have begun to give more urgency to the product in a...

The TXF-ICC Global Export Finance Survey 2018 incorporates the pricing and liquidity views of 65 senior export finance practitioners at leading banks, ECAs, exporters and...

Winning TXF’s Energy Finance Deal of the Year, Neptune's $2 billion transaction represented the largest reserve-based lending facility raised for an acquisition in the...

In a unique deal that fused acquisition financing, commodity finance and commodity price hedging, Liberty House closed a $350 million facility in 2018 to back the...

Despite finalising a lengthy debt restructuring in 2017, Metinvest returned to the debt markets in 2018 to close a $2.36 billion PXF/bond facility, the largest...

As a growing number of blockchain initiatives start live testing, albeit in controlled environments, trade tech is moving to an even more confusing level – a plethora of...

Despite a challenging aluminium price environment in 2018, China’s Hangzhou Zhengcai Holding Group tapped the international debt market for the first time with an...

Winning TXF’s Best Commodity Trader Finance Deal of the Year, Trafigura sealed a complex $250 million two-step pre-payment loan in 2018 to finance the procurement of...

Sponsors of the $3.9 billion 700MW CSP solar project in Dubai – Acwa Power and Shanghai Electric – are near to signing the project debt backing the world’s largest...

The DFI-backed debt for the 7MW PRICO rooftop solar project – only the second power project financing to close in Palestine – is still going to be disbursed despite fresh...

Sponsors of the Nam Theun 1 hydro project in Laos closed a tightly priced ECA-backed facility last month. The deal, which took three years from start to finish, has...

Size matters - but innovation, strong marketing and a willingness to take on risk are the key traits that this year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Deals of the Year all...

As Argentina prepares to award the first roads concessions in its ambitious $25 billion-plus PPP programme, bankers are already working with sponsors on plans to raise...

The five-year development finance institution (DFI) funding package for a new oil-fired plant in Guinea might go some way to alleviating the country’s chronic power...

Since the CDP-SACE-SIMEST restructuring in 2012, SACE has transformed from tired state relic into one of the world’s leading providers of export credit cover. It has the...

The regulatory changes prompted by PSD2 represent an opportunity for corporate treasury to change the way they interact with their supply chain and customers, as well as...

The Ripple versus SWIFT PR campaign appears to have backfired. But whatever the outcome of this rather artificial headline generator, one thing looks certain –...