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SabaFon – Islamic ECA financing

23 March 2009

A new model for MENA export credit

Read more: [Yemen] [telecoms] [Islamic] [ECA] [Sabafon] [Euler Hermes] [Norton Rose] [Siemens]

HSBC has been working closely with SabaFon since 2003 by structuring and arranging the financing of its various capital expenditure programmes. HSBC has used the support of Euler Hermes, the German export credit agency, for most of the facilities on account of the scarce appetite in the commercial banking market for Yemeni transactions. In...


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Will Russia’s recent ban on grain exports result in a significant rise in private risk insurance claims from grain traders unable to fulfil their contracts?

Yes – there will be more claims. The government’s actions allow traders, with PRI cover, to make claims through contract frustration.
8%
No - the majority of Russia’s wheat production, some 70%-80%, is used for domestic consumption so the contracts represent only a small portion of the total wheat market, limiting the amount of potential claims.
23%
No - traders had a week’s notice before the ban allowing them to secure alternative supplies to fulfil contracts stated as optional origin.
23%
Maybe - but claims are likely to be limited to traders dealing in soft wheat whose contracts demand they source wheat only from Russia.
46%

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From a Brazilian perspective a lot of work still needs to be done in getting foreign lenders more comfortable to finance the second-tier players again.

Ian Henderson, Texel Capital - Brazil: Agri-sector bounces back - Trade Finance July/August 2010