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Update: Tatneft set to mandate banks for PXF

02 March 2010

Russian oil producer Tatneft is set to mandate banks this week for a jumbo pre-export financing revolver.

Read more: [Tatneft mandates pre-export financing] [Russian oil prodcuers] [Bashneft]

Russian oil producer Tatneft is set to mandate banks later this week for a $2 billion pre-export financing revolver.

The deal is split between a three-year, a five-year, and a seven-year tranche. At least 12 banks are expected to form the senior club with minimum tickets set at $150 million.

Banks are waiting to discover who will be mandated to for the first two tranches. Sberbank’s name...


Poll

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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Steven Pout, Agriservice - Brazil: Agri-sector bounces back - Trade Finance, July/August 2010