Spendmatters.com looks at Payment Services Directive - a new EU directive that enables a bank's customers, both consumers and businesses, to use third-party providers...

German development bank KfW has agreed a $3.4 million long-term subordinated debt facility with FINCA Malawi, the microfinance operations of FINCA Impact Finance in...

Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) is likely to engage with international banks to raise finance for the $500 million independent wind power project in the country, said a...

Oil trader Trafigura will regain its position as the largest buyer of seaborne crude from Russia's Rosneft, expanding its partnership as Rosneft reduces its dealings...

Guatemala’s Agencia Nacional de Alianzas para el Desarrollo de la Infraestructura Economica (ANADIE) has extended the deadline for bids for the 41km...

Moscow-headquartered Nordgold has signed a $300 million, five-year unsecured debt facility with a group of international banks. Mandated lead arrangers were ING,...

Early-bird registration discounts have been extended to Friday, March 23 for this year’s US EXIM Annual Conference on April 19-20 in Washington DC. The...

General syndication of Energean’s $1.275 billion construction financing has launched. The deal will fund the borrower’s $1.6 billion Karish and Tanin...

Signed last week, the long term acquisition facility backing Entek Elektrik’s TRY1.28 billion ($320 million) successful bid in the privatisation of...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is financing a $380 million project to upgrade three Olkaria geothermal power plants in Naivasha, Kenya, with new...

Hong Kong-headquartered Noble Group is racing against time to garner enough votes for a debt restructuring plan after its decision not to pay a $379 million bond due on...

American Express has filed a patent related to faster payments and blockchain technology. The filing describes a blockchain solution to receive requests for payment,...

More details have emerged on the recent pre-export (PXF) refinancing by Russian Copper Company for its Kazakhstan operations. The $250 million five-year (inclusive...

Mahindra Renewables has achieved financial close for its 250MW solar power project located at the Rewa solar park in Madhya Pradesh. Yes Bank provided Rs750 crore of the...

Redondo Peninsular Energy has terminated a $940 million EPC contract for the Subic Redondo coal-fired power station that had been awarded to South Korea's Doosan...

The Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) has invited the prequalified teams - Tata Realty-Siemens, ILFS and IRB - to submit their final offers for the...

Canadian Solar subsidiary Recurrent Energy has finalised the sale of its interests in three solar projects totaling 235MW of capacity to the Korea Electric Power...

Moody's Investors Service has released a report on Argentina's new PPP programme and come out with a positive opinion on the country's attempts to address its...

Bank Leumi (UK), the multi-specialist London-based subsidiary of Israel's largest international bank, has hired Anne-Marie Woolley as its new Trade Finance...

Investment bank Greenhill & Co has appointed Ali Akbar to the New York office as a Managing Director focused on the Midstream Energy Sector. He moves from the M&A...