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...

Oil trader Addax Energy closed a rare IFC-backed borrowing base in Mauritania in 2018, to take home TXF's African Commodities Finance Deal of the Year Award. And the...

China’s Shandong Qingyuan closed three offshore pre-delivery finance facilities against future crude oil deliveries, totalling nearly $1 billion, to take home TXF’s Best...

Taking home TXF’s Sustainable Commodity Finance Deal of the Year Award, Gunvor sealed a $770 million sustainability-linked borrowing base facility in 2018 – the first for...

With President Trump’s protectionist push straining US trade relationships between Canada, Mexico, and China, Russia’s support of the Syrian regime threatening a broader...

With a new report from the World Bank concluding that the participation rate of institutional investors in infrastructure projects remains low, TXF looks at some of the...

Since the CDP-SACE-SIMEST restructuring in 2012, SACE has transformed from tired state relic into one of the world’s leading providers of export credit cover. It has the...

With the January 13 deadline for compliance with PSD2 now in the rear-view mirror, you could be forgiven for thinking that the payment regulation is no longer on the...

A record amount of renewables corporate PPAs signed in 2017 and the trend looks set to continue. With US PPA structures working their way into Europe, and the rise of...

Coronal Energy’s hedge on a 30MW PV portfolio was not a textbook use of kWh Analytics’ new solar revenue put. But it might be having the desired effect on banks’ term...

The December 2017 finalisation of the Basel III framework offers some good risk weighting news for smaller multilaterals. Could this help channel more funding to emerging...

An executive summary of TXF's key global country risk ratings for January 2018.

An executive summary of TXF's key global country risk ratings for December.

In June, the EIB launched its upgraded Trade Finance Facility 2.0 – to enable Greek banks to ramp up support for SMEs and Midcaps. TXF caught up with international and...

ECAs are stepping up their SME support initiatives. Application processes and ease of access to export cover is improving. But as commercial banks retreat from the SME...

The World Bank and the Islamic Development Bank have issued a report highlighting the potential for Islamic finance in PPP. And untapped pools of capital could boost...

TXF spoke to Mark Hansen CEO of commodity trader Concord Resources about the current market, the company’s ambitions and the changes to China’s metals supply and demand...

In anticipation of new renewable energy auctions for large-scale projects in December or January 2018, El Salvador has continued to progress in the project space despite...

The development of large-scale renewables projects in sub-Saharan Africa has been slowed by a relative dearth of commercially bankable projects. However, as renewables...

Colombia’s $70 billion infrastructure programme has hit a few bankability hurdles in the past year. But the government has reacted proactively and is generating...