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Trade Finance – May 2010
20 May 2010
Highlights from the May 2010 print edition of Trade Finance magazine.
COVER STORY
THE STATE OF THE COMMODITY FINANCE MARKET
As demand picks up in certain sectors, and prices of many commodities increase – and become less volatile, what lessons have the commodity banks learned and how are they viewing the markets. Jonathan Bell asks several key bankers for their views.
FEATURES
Commodity finance – softs: Green shoots take root
Appetite for soft commodity financing is returning. Dickon Harris examines developments across the emerging markets.
Commodity finance – energy: All dressed up
Michele Martensen assesses how banks in the oil and gas sector are responding to calls for looser structures and longer tenors.
Commodity finance – metals: By the boot straps
Metals financiers are clawing back, but it is a slow road. Jonathan Bell, speaks to some of the players.
Deal analysis – EuroChem: Debut ECA deal
Dickon Harris analyses Russian fertiliser EuroChem’s debut ECA-backed financing.
Agencies – EBRD: TFP crisis response
By Rudolf Putz, head, Trade Facilitation Programme, EBRD
Agencies – EBRD awards: TFP issuing banks
The most active TFP issuing banks in 2009.
Agencies – EBRD awards: TFP confirming banks
As the EBRD celebrates 10 years of the TFP, Dickon Harris speaks with some of this year’s main players.
IADB – update: The A and the B
Oliver O’Connell speaks with Jozef Henriquez, head of syndications.
ADB – update: Building blocks
A report on the latest actions of the Asian Development Bank following the annual meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Turkey– market spotlight: Reaching out
Sam McManus speaks to the people on the ground about the changing face of Turkish trade finance.
China– the RMB: The how and the why
Oliver O’Connell examines the potential for renminbi trade settlement.
Bank interview – BES: A milestone in STF
Jonathan Bell meets the key personnel at the London offices of BES.