Midstream and downstream oil & gas company Puma Energy has appointed Emma Fitzgerald as its new CEO. She will succeed Pierre Eladari, who has held the position since February 2004, on 2 January 2019

Lenders have emerged for the refinancing of about €198 million of debt for Croatia’s Zagreb Airport

Mayer Brown has appointed Ashley McDermott as partner in the firm's banking and finance practice in London

French developer Suez has mandated Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (Apicorp) to lead the financing of its $60 million formaldehyde and derivatives project in Damietta, Egypt

Mexican public utility CFE has closed a $100 million loan to finance power development in the country

MUFG Bank has hired Genoveva Ramon-Borja as its head of corporate banking for Iberia after 23 years at BNP Paribas

Troubled commodities trader Noble Group has warned of another quarterly loss ahead of its planned $3.4 billion restructuring

Tradewind has signed export factoring facilities totalling roughly €3.2 million ($3.6 million) for two Icelandic seafood companies

TrainOSE – a Greek subsidiary of Italy’s state rail company Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane – today (29 October 2018) signed the sale and purchase agreement (SPA) for the acquisition of Greek rolling stock company EESSTY

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved of a $15 million grant from the African Development Fund (ADF) for water supply and sanitation project in Malawi

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will fund the construction of a high-voltage (230kv) transmission line in Bolivia, linking San Ignacio de Velasco in the department of Santa Cruz, to the grid

Sponsor ACWA Power has lined a debt package for the 1,500MW and 50 million gallons per day Al Dur 2 IWPP in Bahrain, ahead of reaching commercial close next month (November 2018)

China Development Bank and Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on funding infrastructure outside the two countries

China-based Risen Energy has been awarded two separate EPC contracts in Vietnam

Major turbine manufacturers GE and Siemens have both signed memorandums of understanding over the last week (October 2018) with the government of Iraq for new power generation projects in the country

Suppliers can now register their interest in working with innogy on the 1.2GW Sofia offshore wind farm in the North East of England

The Myanmar Ministry of Electricity has set an 8 November deadline on bids for transmission line accessories

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has more than doubled its lending to the Cote d’Ivoire government’s Abidjan urban transport master plan by approving €329.7 million ($376 million) in additional funding

The African Development Bank has signed a $500 million credit insurance deal covering a portion of the bank’s portfolio of non-sovereign operations in Africa