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March
The IFC and Peru LNG have helped Agricola Viñasol to obtain a GBF loan to diversify its portfolio of agricultural products in local and export markets.
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The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) has approved a $40 million capital investment in the Peruvian Infrastructure Fund.
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DLA Piper has signed a cooperation agreement with Brazil’s Campos Mello Advogados, promising “more to come” in Latin America.
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Results from the Audience Response System sponsored by BBVA at the 12th Annual Structured Trade & Export Finance in the Americas Conference.
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February
US Ex-Im and Banobras have signed a memorandum to support up to $1 billion in US exports to back Mexico’s infrastructure development programme.
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A Mexican national has been indicted and arrested in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud US Ex-Im.
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Citi and Deutsche Bank have signed a buyer credit for telecoms firm, Telefónica, backed by Swedish export credit agency EKN.
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Bolivia’s Banco Ganadero has joined the International Financial Corporation’s Global Trade Finance Programme to help expand trade financing for its clients.
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Ecopetrol’s senior management has set out the company’s intentions for 2010 with plans to raise $3.5 billion in financing.
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James Prusky and Robert Klein, principals at Crecera Finance Company, discuss the role of trade finance in unlocking growth in the Latin American SME market.
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Export Development Canada employees have raised funds for disaster relief in Haiti with EDC and the Canadian Government matching donations.
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Valentino Gallo, Managing Director and Americas Head, Citi, Export and Agency Finance, takes a look at the effects of last year’s dramatic shifts in the financial landscape and the way forward in 2010.
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Market comment: Antonio Alves, senior regional head of trade finance, Latin America and Caribbean region, IFC.
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Alexander R.Malaket explores the state of trade and trade finance in Mexico at a time when the country’s two Nafta partners are each dealing in their own way with the consequences of the crisis.
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Canadian export credit agency, EDC, has provided a loan to Chilean mining company Minera Los Pelambres.
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Under the government of Japan’s Trade Finance Initiative, JBIC has signed its first loan to CAF to directly support trade finance.
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January
Deutsche Bank and Société Générale have closed a buyer credit loan to the Dominican Republic to build three new hospitals in Santo Domingo.
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Colombian buyers and US exporters to benefit from $1 billion US Ex-Im preliminary commitment to Colombia’s Ecopetrol.
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Banco Espirito Santo (BES) and China Development Bank launch syndication of a major trade-related loan for Venezuelan oil producer PDVSA.
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Brazilian offshore operator Schahin has signed a debt restructuring for its Black Gold drilling vessels, to be chartered by Petrobras.
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Santander has a signed a long-term buyer credit deal to fund Mexico’s acquisition of military aircraft.
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Export-Import Bank of China is guaranteeing a trade loan for Chile’s Banco de Credito e Inversiones (BCI).
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German development bank, KfW, is refinancing the South American development bank, CAF.
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The Inter-American Development bank has arranged a loan to Chile’s Banco de Crédito e Inversiones for unbanked micro-entrepreneurs.
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The Andean Development Corporation has signed a loan agreement with Venezuela for the Termozulia III Thermoelectric Project.
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Inter-American Development Bank posts record year thanks to response to Latin American and Caribbean demand for financing in wake of global crisis.
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Change in status further opens up three new markets for US exporters.
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Bookrunner Standard Chartered has signed a pre-export financing for Brazilian soft commodity wholesaler Empresa Interagricola.