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Trade Finance magazine - June 2009

18 June 2009

Highlights from the June 2009 print edition of Trade Finance magazine.

Recognising achievers in troubled times
Jonathan Bell, managing editor of Trade Finance magazine, reviews the Awards for Excellence results 2009.

Trade Finance Asia Awards for Excellence - Full table of results

Trade Finance Awards for...


Poll

Gazpromneft stunned the market this week when it was revealed pricing for their five-year $1 billion pre-export financing was rumoured to be just above 300 basis points over Libor. Is the deal likely to be a syndication success?

Yes - this seems like a sensible pricing benchmark, why not?
9%
No - are you crazy? These prices are ridiculous. What were these banks thinking?
27%
Yes - but for all the wrong reasons. A lack of other deals in the market, and the promise of future business with Gazpromneft will make it hard to ignore but don’t expect many to take up big tickets with this deal. There are much better deals out there.
64%

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Until credit sanctioners can escape from their investment grade comfort zone, they’ll never enable the full potential of an STCF approach to be felt.

Aidan Applegarth, independent banking consultant - Commodity banks bounce back, December 2009