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SSE Renewables and Equinor have closed financing for the final stage of their Dogger Bank wind farm project off the northeast coast of England, drawing in dozens of lenders and a trio of export credit agencies (ECAs). In a deal announced this week, the two energy companies have secured around £3bn for Dogger Bank C, ...
Greensill’s use of risk mitigants, including trade credit insurance and export credit agency guarantees, was extensive. However, since the company’s collapse, doubts have been raised over its dependence on such cover, and in some cases, whether policies or guarantees were valid in the first place. John Basquill examines the controversial claims at the heart of ...
This time last year, the trade credit and political risk insurance community was preparing for increases in Covid-related claims. The anticipated winding down of government-led assistance schemes was expected to place a strain on businesses that had been reliant on that support, leading to financial pressure and even company collapse. Instead, what happened was quite ...
The annual GTR+ Insurance publication gives us the opportunity to delve deeper into the world of trade credit and political risk insurance.
Blockchain platform MineHub has notched up the first live metals financing transaction using its trade finance application. Launched last month, MineHub Trade Finance connects borrowers to their financiers via a secure communication channel, giving them access to the real-time data set of each transaction. In this way, financiers get a direct line of sight to ...