Our annual Deals of the Year Awards were certainly an interesting event. While the beginning of the year opened in gloom and crisis, the end of the year was marked by considerably more activity than a year earlier.
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The Rusal debt restructuring was one of the biggest the world has ever seen. But thanks to the professional approach by international lenders – and the client – the outcome was positive for everyone involved.
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In the book, How to Get Rich, self-made publishing millionaire Felix Dennis warns against factoring – you’re only taking money from the future and from there onwards, it’s a downward death-spiral, he says.
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A Deal of the Year Award does not necessarily have to be the biggest or most exotic. Sometimes, simply pulling together multiple participants, overcoming market hysteria and seeing the ‘long game’ is what really raises eyebrows and the interest of our judges.
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Simple, but effective; closing oversubscribed; and, with an innovative security structure. They are just some of the reasons our judges gave for voting this Barclays Capital syndicated standby letter of credit (LC) deal with Gazprom Marketing & Trading (M&T) a TFR Deal of the Year.
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Last year was an unusual year for TFR’s Deals of the Year Awards – the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) wasn’t in it.
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In March 2009, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) disbursed about $200m to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a bid to protect the country from the worst effects of the global economic crisis.
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To start the year, we have seen minor price reductions in the lower pricing thresholds for Nigeria, Brazil, China and South Korea, and a minor increase for Sri Lanka. As before, many underwriters remain cautious about insuring trade assets in Sudan, Venezuela, Ecuador, Pakistan and Ukraine.
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Uniform Rules for Forfaiting have moved a step closer following the third meeting of the Drafting Group in late January. By Richard Willsher.
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While the major developed economies have emerged slowly from recession, with trade still depressed, the major economies of Asia are forging ahead, according to Tan Kah Chye at Standard Chartered.
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EBRD has made a €150m sovereign loan to Serbia’s Srbijagas, the state-owned gas transmission, storage and distribution company, to enable it to upgrade the country’s gas transmission network.
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Insurance giant Zurich has named Daniel Riordan, Head of Zurich’s Surety, Credit and Political Risk group, as President of its North America Commercial Specialties unit.
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General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and James Owens, CEO of Caterpillar, will deliver the opening speeches at the Export-Import Bank of the United States 2010 annual conference in Washington, DC on 11 March 2010.
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"Must have been like herding cats through a catnip farm. My verdict? Extreme structured trade finance: should get its own programme on the Discovery Channel."
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This was another early deal win for Citi, with both of our round-one judges giving it a resounding thumbs up.
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Deals involving Russian metals giants were not exactly the most popular prospects in 2009, given the ongoing restructuring negotiations between 70+ banks and aluminium maker Rusal.
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Given the protracted restructuring at aluminium giant Rusal in Russia, the seemingly endless political uncertainty in Ukraine, the global financial crisis and the volatile pricing of metals, it may be surprising that anyone wanted to be involved in a metals pre-export finance (PXF) in Eastern Europe in 2009.
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EGPC, the national oil company of Egypt, certainly stepped out into the pre-export finance (PXF) market in 2009 with this $900m facility with BTMU and Morgan Stanley the outright leads.
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China is more commonly associated with coal-fired electric power with, it is said, the ribbon cut on a new power plant every week, just to keep up with demand – rather than wind power, despite the number of wind turbines manufactured in the fast-growing country.
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The latest emerging market debt pricing figures from specialists Omni Bridgeway.
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Forfaiter Sal Chiappinelli talks to TFR about the Kazakhstan banking workout, the prospects for forfaiters in an uncertain economic climate and the latest in Swiss Forfaiting’s long-running saga with Portuguese bank BPN.
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Kees Hoving has moved from Royal Bank of Scotland to become Managing Director, Regional Head of Trade Finance and Cash Management Corporates Business for Germany, at Deutsche Bank.
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UK exports fell by £1.4bn ($2.1bn) – 6.9% – to £19.5bn ($29.15bn) in a surprise month-on-month fall from December 2009.
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TNK-BP stands to lose control of the Kovytka gas field following a recommendation from the Russia’s environmental protection agency, RosPrirodNadzor.
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Companies that purchased international air cargo or air freight services in Europe, between 2000 and 2006 inclusive may be able to claim for refunds for the amount overcharged due to alleged price-fixing by airline companies.
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Russian oil producers Bashneft, Gazprom Neft and Tatneft are all expected to tap international markets during the year as liquidity improves.
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