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05 September 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport

Sharp rise in marine fuel will impact global trade

The global shipping industry is preparing for a sharp rise in the cost of marine fuel come 2020. Jonathan Bell explores the implications of this – for the crude oil...

29 August 2018
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Mexico and US strike new trade pact to replace NAFTA

What does the new trade deal, agreed in principle between the US and Mexico, spell out in the finer detail, and what implications could it have for other trade spats and...

22 August 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Turkey turmoil raises difficult questions

The Turkish economy has been overheating. Mounting external debt and the mismanagement of the economy has caused the Turkish Lira to plummet against the US dollar and...

15 August 2018

US wages economic war against Iran

With the United States' first wave of economic sanctions on Iran already having a heavy impact on the Iranian economy, Jonathan Bell looks at how this will also affect...

08 August 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

China-US trade punches

Last week's announcement that China plans to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion worth of US goods points to a heating up of the trade war between the two countries....

07 August 2018
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Oil & gas

Oil trading: The wrong kind of slick investment?

Rising oil prices dampened trader’s profits last year as the market moved from contango to backwardation, and many of the larger houses are already starting to diversify...

01 August 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power

Miners dig in to resolve African resource nationalism challenges

This week's edition of The Week That Was focuses on recent problems being caused by resource nationalism in Africa's mining sector

27 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Manufacturing & equipment, Oil & gas, Power

Soy it goes!

It would be good to escape from major economic trade factors that are influencing our lives – if only for a while, and for some in the Northern Hemisphere that obviously...

19 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

US-China get electric on the auto front

Jonathan Bell, Editor-in-Chief at TXF gives us his take on news that Tesla is to build an EV Gigafactory in Shanghai, as well as a review of TXF's market coverage from...

31 May 2018

Vesteri to be presented with TXF Industry Fellowship Award

Topi Vesteri, Deputy CEO, Group CCO at Finnvera and President at the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers (Berne Union) is to be honoured with the TXF...

22 May 2018

Top takeaways from TXF Natural Resources & Commodity Finance 2018

From patterns in consolidation, competition and coal to local liquidity, legal issues and leveraging the power of sustainability, there were a number of content takeaways...

07 May 2018

Perfect 10: Yibal extends borrowing options in the Middle East

In an amend-and-extend of a previous PXF for crude oil exports, the government of Oman was able to secure the same cost of funding despite a dramatic deterioration of its...

04 December 2017

CJ Hall leaves US Ex-Im: a vital US agency hamstrung by politics

Charles Hall, the acting chairman of US Ex-Im has retired from the bank. What does this mean for the agency which is still without a board quorum and unable to approve...

04 December 2017

Texel Finance celebrates 20 years of growth

London-headquartered insurance broker Texel Finance is about to celebrate 20 years in the business as of 1 December. TXF editor-in-chief Jonathan Bell, caught up with...

08 November 2017

ECIC and South African exporters revitalise the export effort

At the TXF Cape Town conference in October, Kutoane Kutoane, CEO, Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (ECIC) took time out to talk with TXF...

19 October 2017

BBVA: A bigger slice of ECA-backed pie

Following a sweeping reorganisation in 2015, BBVA is looking at double-digit growth for its 2017 global trade business – and gearing for a much bigger share of the global...

02 October 2017

Digitisation of receivables: In the spotlight at ITFA Edinburgh meeting

One of the many hot topics under the spotlight at the ITFA annual conference, this year held in Edinburgh, was the subject of digitisation and standardisation of...

13 September 2017

Full digital disruption needs culture change from banks

The partnership between banks and digital providers is growing, but does it guarantee digital growth and inventory savings for trade finance, or is it all for show?

29 August 2017
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Oil & gas

Nigerian oil corruption probe gets serious in US

A multi-jurisdictional corruption probe into oil sector deals under the previous Nigerian administration is gaining pace and implicates both multinational commodity...

15 August 2017
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

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