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02 November 2023

How do carbon markets work? Part 2

As with any type of valuable asset, owners of emission allowances and voluntary carbon credits may wish to use them to obtain finance. This asset class is increasingly...

18 October 2023
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Agri/Soft Commodities

How does mandatory and voluntary carbon trading work?

Niamh Dennehy-Maher of Allen & Overy and Robert Lang-Anderson of Bank of America examine each market, explain how carbon trading schemes are set up and what the...

04 May 2020

Sweden Africa Chamber: ECAs to step up in Africa amid pandemic

Angelica Adamski, director at the Sweden Africa Chamber and a member of the board at Svenska Aerogel, says collaboration amongst Swedish exporters is key to promoting...

23 March 2020
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Power

Cote d’Ivoire CCGTs: Still a tale of pure DFI debt – for now

The purely DFI-backed 462MW Azito gas-fired power plant expansion in Cote d’Ivoire and its successor – the 390MW Atinkou CCGT plant - proves DFI financing firepower is...

05 March 2020

Sullivan: Learning from documentation in trade

In the latest edition of Sullivan's trade finance breakfast briefing, partners Geoffrey Wynne outlines the issues in documenting trade finance transactions amid a growing...

03 March 2020
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Renewables

CFXD: A lesson in going local

The 589MW CFXD offshore wind project in Taiwan has marked the highest local content percentage for any such project in Asia Pacific. But signing up two Taiwanese...

21 February 2020

Sullivan trade finance seminar - challenges to trade and commodity finance 2020

Sam Fowler-Holmes, senior associate at Sullivan presents the challenges across the trade and commodity finance space, with potential headwinds in 2020 including...

14 February 2020

Is Poland’s offshore wind market project finance-friendly?

The Polish offshore wind market is gathering pace. Although questions around local content requirements, local liquidity and local currency-denominated PPAs need to be...

07 February 2020
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Oil & gas

Amur GPP: Better than the black stuff

The heavily ECA-backed financing for Gazprom's Amur gas processing project has set new tenor and volume benchmarks for both the sponsor and Russian oil and gas – even...

29 January 2020

Irish wind: A fledgling project finance sector set for take-off?

With the global cost of offshore wind dropping and new projects developing seemingly every day, the windy coast of Ireland is left with only one offshore wind farm. 10...

02 January 2020

Shoptalk: Marsh on mergers, markets and 2020

TXF spoke with Marcus Miller, leader of Marsh's global lenders solution group to discuss the broker's recent merger with JLT, as well as the health of the credit and...

12 December 2019

Shop Talk: US Exim on the road to full reauthorisation

At TXF's PRI conference in London last week, TXF spoke to Stephen Renna, chief banking officer of US Exim to find out if christmas is coming early for the US ECA, as...

25 November 2019

Credendo steps up carbon footprint reduction

Credendo is upping its carbon reduction efforts - both in its ECA offerings and its everyday operations. The ambition is zero carbon according to Credendo CEO Dirk...

05 November 2019
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Renewables

Saint Nazaire: A first financing for French offshore wind

France’s first offshore wind farm project financing – the 480MW Saint Nazaire scheme – had an extended deal gestation of over seven years after facing several legal and...

23 October 2019
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Power, Renewables

Floating solar: Testing Vietnam’s water for bankability

The DFI-backed Da Mi floating solar power project loan has proved the economic viability of such schemes in Vietnam. But the government has its part to play if a hefty...

17 October 2019

FEX meets Euler Hermes legal

Last month in the third event in the series of 'FEX meets', the German chapter of the Future of Export Finance (FEX) sat down with Euler Hermes' legal and compliance team...

02 October 2019
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Renewables

West Bakr: Borrowed template with better pricing

Lekela Power’s DFI-backed financing for its 250MW West Bakr wind project borrows heavily from the Gulf of Suez wind template in 2017. While there have been improvements...

23 September 2019
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Renewables

Soma 4: Turkey debuts gender-tied project loan

Polat Energy has signed a gender-linked facility to finance the 48MW Soma 4 wind farm in Turkey. The project, an extension to the existing 240MW Soma wind farm, marks the...