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16 March 2021

TCFD: Too complex for delivery in export finance?

The Global Export Finance Industry Report 2021 found that export finance banks (59%), ECAs (59%), and buyers (54%) were most likely to have some knowledge of Task Force...

11 March 2021

Greensill: SCF and insurance industry fallout

How can - or should - the SCF industry distance itself from the fast evolving situation at Greensill Capital? Is more transparency needed? For sure. How should the credit...

10 March 2021

Guest opinion: Supply chain finance – reputation in tatters? Deserved or just deflection?

Supply chain finance and particularly payables finance is back in the spotlight after the news flow on Greensill. Is this the death knell for the product or is it a case...

10 March 2021

Expert briefing: Closing the infra investment gap

The Global Infrastructure Hub estimates that the world will face a $15 trillion gap in meeting the world’s infrastructure requirements by 2040. The entire investment...

09 March 2021
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Transport

Greensill: What we know - and what we don’t

TXF takes a first look at the great imponderables that have been raised by the fomenting Greensill Capital saga. What do and don’t we know, what are we only able to...

09 March 2021

Launching TXF Membership: Join our live demo

Built by TXF with you and the export finance industry in mind, our brand new state-of-the-art portal will bring you all the export finance knowledge, content and...

09 March 2021

Women in commodities: A work in progress

In honour of International Women’s Day on Monday, TXF takes a look at how gender imbalance within the commodity finance industry is being challenged, from bank diversity...

09 March 2021

The fall of Greensill Capital: Lessons learned from a credit insurance perspective

Robert Deeley, managing director at PolFin, a specialist credit and political risk insurance broker, takes a closer look at the lessons industry practitioners can learn...

08 March 2021
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Oil & gas

Assiut expansion: Egypt’s bank-to-bank benchmark

Egypt’s $2.8 billion Assiut oil refinery expansion project is due to close an ECA-backed loan this year after pandemic-related delays to the deal. The project sponsor...

03 March 2021

Africa: ECAs support headline acts on project finance stage

ECAs upped their support for big-ticket project financings in Africa last year. And there is room for significant export finance growth with a pipeline of projects set to...

26 February 2021
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Oil & gas

Trafigura ups funding mix with first Schuldschein loan

Trafigura's latest bout of fundraising marked its debut in the Schuldschein loan market. And while introducing an attractive debt instrument to the trader’s financial...

25 February 2021

ECAs and the once elusive SME: Hunting the Snark?

What has Covid meant for ECAs and their ability to attract smaller companies? How are ECAs responding to the needs of these new clients and how are they broadening their...

23 February 2021

The complexities of CIRR revealed

TXF Research’s Global Export Finance Industry Report 2021 shows that 42% of the ECAs surveyed have unlimited access to CIRR and that 30% plan to increase their direct...

22 February 2021
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Telecoms and Communications

Smile Telecoms: Debt restructuring in the balance

Smile Telecoms is awaiting one lender’s vote in support of its ECA debt restructuring plan, alongside creditors approval for $51 million of new money from shareholders....

19 February 2021

Danske Commodities: Green is the new grey

TXF spoke with Tor Mosegaard, head of European power trading at Danske Commodities, to discuss the Danish energy trading house’s role in accelerating the energy...

17 February 2021
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Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Transport

The energy transition: It’s not easy being green

Increasing pressure is being put on lenders to drop hydrocarbon projects, but this is much easier said than done and a proper transition period allows for all parties to...

10 February 2021

UK-EU TCA: The Brexit divorce papers continued

The signing of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) marks the first major deal for the UK with a regional trade bloc since its withdrawal from the European...

08 February 2021
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables

Commodities supercycle or surge?

Commodity prices reaching bullish levels as the world prepares to move out of the Covid crisis and into a green industrial revolution has sparked some excitement around...

04 February 2021
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Power, Renewables

Hydrogen: A matter of scale

Green hydrogen projects are on the increase – but they are also in the earliest stages of development and consequently banks are still treating the sector with caution....

03 February 2021

Consensus still standing - Or is new thinking needed on export finance regulation?

The OECD Consensus has a long history but it’s still the only game in town. With the International Working Group now in stasis, is that a problem, or is it going to focus...