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31 August 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Oil & gas, Power

The Commodity Finance Data Report H1 2022: The highlights

Here’s a sneak preview of TXF’s Commodity Finance Data Report for H1 2022, which will be released later this week. Comprising comprehensive data on commercial loans, the...

13 May 2022

Picking up speed! TXF Commodity Finance Deals of the Year

Deals of the Year – the TXF Perfect 10 – are a time for celebration! Here, we reveal the winners of the Commodity Finance Deals of the Year, for transactions signed in...

25 November 2021
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Renewables

Changhua 1: Taiwan's offshore wind mirrors European holdco finance

The approximately NT$75 billion ($2.67 billion) non-recourse multi-tranche holdco financing backing the acquisition of CDPQ and Cathay Private Equity’s 50% interest in...

27 October 2021

Giddiness and stoicism on world trade and ESG at ITFA

The masks came off as building resilience in world trade and ESG ran in tandem at ITFA’s in person annual event in Bristol.

07 September 2021
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Renewables

Sudair: Cashing in on Saudi solar

An ACWA Power-led team sealed a tightly priced debt package to fund the 1.5GW Sudair solar PV project in mid-June. However, while the scheme marked the second lowest...

25 May 2021
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Sucafina: The digital borrowing base benchmark

Sucafina has returned to the debt market for an ESG-tied borrowing base - sporting a debut digital tool courtesy of Komgo – as well as an upsized deal volume and extended...

21 April 2021

TXF ECA-backed Deals of the Year results

With numerous deals submitted for the TXF Export Finance ECA-backed Perfect 10 and heavy voting through Tagmydeals.com, the shortlist provided some excellent deals and...

23 March 2021
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Telecoms and Communications

Smile Telecoms: ECA-DFI lenders face wipeout as liquidation looms

South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation is threatening to derail Smile Telecoms restructuring plan, potentially pushing the ailing pan-African telecom company into...

11 February 2021
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Telecoms and Communications

Smile Telecoms: Lenders grimace as debt restructuring begins

Smile Telecoms is looking to restructure its DFI/ECA-backed debt package from 2015. But the pan-Afircan telecoms group, which is no stranger to ECA debt, was struggling...

04 December 2019

Drawing better straws? Pricing sustainability into supply chains

Correctly pricing sustainability into corporate supply chains shouldn’t just be a matter of ticking boxes (or drawing straws). Companies are going to have to use their...

13 June 2019

Perfect 10 winners 2018: Export finance

This year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders. Read on to find out why...

23 May 2019

Perfect 10 winners 2018: Commodity finance

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 Commodity Finance...

14 May 2019
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Power

Van Phong 1: A (super)-critical judgement on Japan

JBIC has claimed Sumitomo Corporation’s ECA-backed loan to finance the $2.8 billion Van Phong 1 coal-fired power project in Vietnam is its last loan for a ‘dirty’ power...

19 November 2018
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Renewables

Sakaka: Cash in sand

Saudi Arabia has reached financial close on its first solar utility-scale project – the 300MW Sakaka solar PV plant. The soft miniperm financing is being put forward as a...

19 June 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

No rules resource nationalism: A growing threat to EVs?

Resource nationalism is always present, but a recent increase in intensity fuelled by an uptick in commodity prices has got some in the growing electric vehicle (EV)...

30 May 2018
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Power

Perfect 10: Senelec’s ECA first

Winning TXF’s Best ECA-backed African deal of the year, Senegal’s state-owned power utility Senelec closed its first ECA-backed loan to finance an electricity system...

09 May 2018

Perfect 10: Addax Energy’s slick new borrowing base

Oil trader Addax Energy closed a rare IFC-backed borrowing base in Mauritania in 2018, to take home TXF's African Commodities Finance Deal of the Year Award. And the...

19 April 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Perfect 10 Winners 2017: The big, the bold and the brainy

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...

17 January 2018
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Metals and Mining

Mining for more margin

In conjunction with an uptick in industrial metals pricing, more mining companies are beginning to consider commodity trading for themselves.

12 September 2017
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Metals and Mining

Under the microscope: South African mining's crisis management

A summer of discontent, replete with a credit downgrade, an opposed mining charter, and ongoing political problems, has hit South African debt markets. Miners seemed to...