Mali’s debut independent power project financing, for a greenfield heavy fuel oil-fired power plant, features a blend of Islamic and DFI debt with tight pricing given the...

Anti US Ex-Im comments from the US is nothing new over the past couple of years, but the latest anti-blast coming from the Wall Street Journal is just plain wrong....

Indonesia’s economy is in rude health. Which means time for a refinancing for Paiton, the coal-fired power plant that always captures the zeitgeist in Indonesian power.

Some economic sanctions were lifted 18 months ago and Iran is open and keen for business. However, the commercial bank sector is far from tapping into the immense...

Cost-cutting measures at Angola’s state oil company have started to pay off and foreign oil companies are re-engaging with Sonangol at improved terms. But broader...

Efficient liquidity management is essential for trading companies with cross-border operations. But achieving this has just become a whole lot more difficult due to...

The borrowing prospects for junior miners are looking better than they have done for the past three years. But with international banks nursing Basel-battered balance...

In anticipation of changes to the EU’s sugar production quota in October, European sugar producers and refiners are gearing up for a more competitive market place....

The second restructuring of Glencore’s pre-pay deal with SHT, combined with more deal volume and the increasingly risky markets traders are financing, is flagging up the...

Open Fiber's fibre-optic broadband build-out could be one of Europe's largest infrastructure financings of 2017, if CEO Tommaso Pompei's stated timescale is not too...

Sponsors of the 216MW Northwind offshore wind farm in the Belgian North Sea closed a €525 million ($596 million) ECA-backed refinancing last month - more than halving the...

With Etisalat Nigeria ownership on the verge of being handed over to 13 banks, have African mobile and tower operators taken on more FX risk than they can handle?

Some banks are making great PR from their retreat from coal-related lending. But with new coal-fired power markets opening up, a blanket ban by individual banks on...

Sponsors of the 800MW third phase of the Dubai solar park closed a $700 million soft mini-perm earlier this month - the largest Middle East solar deal to date to go...

ECAs and DFIs have long worked together to compensate for poor liquidity in emerging markets - although given their different mandates and loan mechanisms, multi-sourced...

AML requirements are getting tighter and more costly for banks. But uptake of cost-cutting technology is slow – and for once it is regulators rather than banks that are...

Grupo R's La Muralla IV rig financing - which at time of close in 2012 won a swathe of export credit accolades - may be in trouble. Export credit agencies that backed the...

With many of the issues that dogged Egypt's solar FiT Round 1 fixed, DFIs that were forced to pull out of the first round are back as serious lending prospects for Round...

Japan has 600GW of theoretical offshore wind according to the Japan Wind Power Association. But with only a handful of nearshore projects under development, what is...

Changes that could be made to make ECA export finance more simple and accessible - as voiced by you the market