Ollie Gordon talks to Sanjeev Gupta, the founder and executive chairman of Liberty House Group, about the commodity firm’s much-publicised takeover bid for Tata’s UK...

Australia's Hornsdale Wind Farm secured financing with a club loan of A$173.5 million from KfW IPEX-Bank and Société Générale for the project’s second stage of...

Africa’s second largest and most sophisticated economy risks a heavy blow to its ability to attract financing if, as experts widely predict, its credit rating is...

Following the UK’s surprise vote to leave the EU, EXX Africa's Robert Besseling assesses the probable impact such a departure would have on African trade, investment, and...

As millions of UK citizens queued up at polling stations the length and breadth of the country, Ollie Gordon talked to trade economists, business associations, and...

All the British EU referendum seems to have been good for so far is trading insults - as emotions run high in the last few days before the historic 23 June vote, and...

As presented at TXF Rome last week, here are the 10 trends we are seeing in export finance in 2016. These were derived from three separate, bespoke research initiatives...

Mercuria Energy Trading has closed its $2.2 billion multi-currency revolving credit facilities. In a sign of the times of banks’ appetite for strong commodity trading...

The industry had its say about the best institutions and players in commodity and export & agency finance for our annual Best in Class awards. The winners in each...

During TXF’s Export, Agency and Project Finance conference in Rome last week, Max Thompson caught up with senior vice president of Reliance Industries Vineyesh Sawhney to...

After four years of delay, the $4 billion Batang power project has been given the green light from Japanese financiers. But the environmental and social cost of...

Egypt has partnered with GDF Suez, Toyota and Orascom to build a 250 MW wind farm, the project is part of a government push to hit 4.3 giga watt (GW) of wind and solar...

Facing a liquidity drought, the state-owned lenders to Korea’s embattled shipyards are in need of recapitalisation if they are to support restructuring in the industry....

Italian ECA SACE reopened its support of transactions with Argentina after the Italian undersecretary for development Ivan Scalfarotto last week announced guarantees for...

Mining company First Quantum Minerals has completed a new $1.8 billion term loan and revolving credit facility with its core relationship banks that gives it revised...

The $314 million deal is part of a strategy to get a slice of Eurasian trade along the new Silk Road as the country tries to wean itself off a dependence on shrinking oil...

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...

In the week following the roaring success of TXF’s Commodity Finance Conference in Amsterdam, we look at the results of our delegate survey.

The Japanese ECA is expanding its cover in the UK with the Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, its latest partnership with private sector insurers in Europe.

Petroleum Development Oman, who traditionally rely on state funding, has turned to commercial banks for finance in the wake of lower oil prices, as the oil company seeks...