DFI-ECA cooperation: The key to bridging Africa’s infra gap
ECAs and DFIs are showing an increased risk appetite for African exposures, especially on large-scale project financings. However, these policy-driven financial...
ECAs and DFIs are showing an increased risk appetite for African exposures, especially on large-scale project financings. However, these policy-driven financial...
Ahead of TXF New York 2018, Patricia Gomes, managing director and head of global trade and receivables finance for North America at HSBC, spoke with TXF about how a...
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...
Peru’s investment grade rating and favourable legal framework for foreign investment has helped build its investment promotion agency ProInversion's $11 billion PPP...
TXF Data's top lending opportunities, latest Category A projects under consideration by ECAs, and provisional CIRR trends are here for this week.
Despite Moody’s rating downgrade for the $41.5 billion Southern Gas Corridor in 2017 amid ongoing concerns over Azerbaijan’s creditworthiness and politics, the scheme has...
From new rules for sovereign risk exposures to leverage ratio requirements, Henri d’Ambrières, head of advisory services in trade, export and project finance at HDA...
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...
Following the closure of the first two ECA-backed onshore wind facilities in Argentina this year, and a spate of multilateral and ECA deals expected to close over the...
Improved metals pricing is incentivising miners in Latin America to take mothballed projects back into development. But environmental opposition, labour disputes and...
The four systemically important banks in Greece met with TXF at a roundtable hosted by BNY Mellon in Athens and discussed the future of Greek exports. How are the banks...
According to TXF Data's latest number crunching oil and gas commodity financing volumes increased by $9 billion in H1 2018 compared to the same period last year. And...
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...
TXF Data’s latest weekly tool tracks the yields of relevant sovereign bonds to forecast whether there will be a rise or fall in CIRR rates – the minimum interest rate an...
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....
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...
This week's edition of The Week That Was focuses on recent problems being caused by resource nationalism in Africa's mining sector
Reverse factoring has been implicated in the demise of two of Europe’s largest corporations – Abengoa and Carillion. Can the holes in reverse factoring accounting...
Ecuador’s rehabilitation in financing markets begins with a complex deal for Lundin Gold’s Fruta del Norte mine. The financing combines a stream, a prepay, commercial PRI...
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...
SACE has recorded huge increases in activity in recent years, primarily in support of domestic priorities. But is it pushing hard enough into the sectors and geographies that show the most promise?