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December
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November
Export credit agency involvement in large infrastructure projects is not just about backing exporters and protecting jobs in the home country. In the Middle East borrowers are turning to ECAs as key sources of finance in a region keen to diversify its funding base. Oliver O'Connell explores the reasons behind the increasing use of ECA and structured trade finance and how banks are competing to win deals.
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October
As international trade deals and risks grow bigger, bank demand for credit insurance products is also rising sharply. What do banks expect from insurers and brokers, and how do they view market developments? Michael Rowe investigates.
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Establishing an effective system to analyse and separate the major risk components in a specific market and transaction is not an easy task. Here, Federico Forni* reveals how this can be achieved and how successful management can lead to locating cheaper finance and a smoother transaction flow.
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August
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Having struggled with a gloomy domestic export market for two years, South African banks are looking at the wider region to expand their structured trade and commodity finance business. Oliver O'Connell examines the territory.
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July
Supporting a manufacturing base can take many forms. The Nordic export credit agencies recognize the importance of providing strong backing to equipment exporters, and this is paying good dividends. Jonathan Bell examines the scene.
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While most associate Nordic manufacturing with telecoms, other centres of manufacturing excellence – such as transportation and power generation, should not be underestimated. Oliver O'Connell assesses the level of support from ECAs in the region.
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Most large cities have problems with mass transit. In Latin America decades of neglect and underinvestment is being tackled by a raft of new programmes of investment and regulation. HSBC is looking to enhance its role in the region on the back of the successful EKN-backed deal to supply Volvo buses to Santiago, Chile. Oliver O'Connell examines the transaction.
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At a time when margins are being squeezed across the emerging markets, trade finance lending in Asia continues to offer attractive returns. But the region is not without its risks, and the choice of mitigants is often bewildering. Steve Garton looks at a sample of the products available to the lending community and asks whether pricing reflects their performance.
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April
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March
In this particular deal, Deutsche Bank has arranged ECA-backed financing for the Reliance Industries group – in a deal which is the company's first ECA-covered financing for 22 years.
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Through 2004 competition for financing mandates for Brazilian corporates reached new heights. With this deal, closed in December by ABN Amro (ABN), it was the first time that a European bank acted as sole lead arranger on a Nexi untied loan for a Brazilian borrower.
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Progressing trade deals with Iraq was never going to be easy, and the continuing insurgency activity makes this much more difficult still. Nevertheless, trade needs to go on and the financing of essential equipment – in this case insect abatement machines to the Iraqi ministry of health – is of paramount importance.
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In the testing business environments of the emerging markets it is imperative for corporates to do their own due diligence and risk evaluation. Federico Forni explains how his company goes about ensuring that all risk equations are fully calculated.
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February
Michael Rowe reports on the discussions taking place at this year's annual Coface risk conference held in Paris.
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January
For those financiers willing and able to look beyond the more familiar corporate names, the Russian corporate sector of productive entities has a particularly rich vein of potential prospects. Banks are casting away the notion of the 'second-tier', and looking to a new breed of borrowers.