PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently launched a new advisory practice – the ECA Advisory Practice for Capital Projects – aimed at helping export credit agencies deal...

Five years on from the Mexico's landmark energy sector reforms, a spate of recent financings – one without DFI backing – support market expectation that the pace of...

Sanjeev Gupta is the man behind the ascent of Liberty House from commodity trading start-up into an international metals and industrials group. And in conversation with...

The Kosovo E Re coal-fired power project is a potential candidate for World Bank funding. If it goes ahead it may set the precedent for a more practical approach to...

The TXF commodity finance report has revealed a year-on-year rise in global volumes from 2016. With Middle Eastern traders turning up the heat, Russian producers looking...

Lending demand from South Africa’s mining sector has been sluggish at best – a symptom of poor economic governance, a new mining charter verging on the absurd and the...

The UK Guarantee Scheme was not designed for financing mining projects. But Sirius Minerals, which has already overcome significant hurdles to its North Yorkshire...

The DFI-backed Almaty ring road PPP is being promoted as the financing template that will kick-start the Kazakh PPP market. But it comes with a knot of heavy sovereign...

TXF has released its European export finance results for 2017 – and the figures throw up some surprises. Average deal volume size was double that of 2016, and despite...

A new debt restructuring proposal is unlikely to make firm commitments to Mozambique’s creditors, but as long as bond prices remain high, many creditors seem satisfied to...

Nigeria’s plan to finance 14 utility-scale solar IPP projects by the end of June 2018 is looking uncertain. Potential DFI appetite is waning as state-owned offtaker...

Despite the endless stream of PR statements about banks exiting coal-related lending, none can actually track where the proceeds of loans to commodity traders go. When...

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...

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has ramped up its risk appetite with a spate of new product suites, initiatives, and strategies aimed at increasing support for SMEs. TXF spoke...

Iran has yet to produce the project and trade flows bankers hoped for following signing of the JCPOA in 2016. The hurdles are largely born of the Trump administration –...

The PPP Canada fund is expected to be replaced by the C$35 billion Canadian Infrastructure Bank in 2018. While the new bank will have a wider mandate and larger budget,...

In conjunction with an uptick in industrial metals pricing, more mining companies are beginning to consider commodity trading for themselves.

The year 2018 is unlikely to herald the start of a new African debt crisis, but it will augur an end to the boon of high-yielding African debt, as governments continue to...

The hottest ticket in town, TXF Americas 2018, just got more exciting, welcoming an exclusive case study on the recent Verizon ECA-backed transactions, with in depth...

The JBIC/NEXI deal for Gulf of Suez Wind IPP (Ras Ghareb) – a rare ECA-backed deal in an Egyptian renewables market fuelled by DFI debt – is both reasonably priced and...