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China Railways – structured trade

26 March 2010

BBVA electrifies China connection

This was an inspiringly novel financing that saw BBVA as sole mandated lead arranger provide a mixed long-term structured trade finance arrangement to support a buyer credit, a bridge loan and a development loan. BBVA engaged in an extremely imaginative use of different financing instruments to offer an unbeatable package to its Chinese client. BBVA arranged a a75.5 million buyer credit to the Chinese Ministry of Railways to finance a contract with Balfour Beatty Rail Ibérica – Cobra to electrify the railway alongthe Xinxiang-Heze-Yanzhou-Rizhao routing in China....


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