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On 8 March, men and women across the world celebrated International Women’s Day. This week, TXF’s Eavie Burnett takes a closer look at the vital role women and other...
On 8 March, men and women across the world celebrated International Women’s Day. This week, TXF’s Eavie Burnett takes a closer look at the vital role women and other...
Dr Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies, looks at the UK’s trade negotiation stance after Brexit amid the Coronavirus outbreak. The interconnected nature of...
Nornickel has sealed a $4.15 billion refinancing at time when Russian corporate borrowers and international lenders have found their cost of debt aspirations harmonising,...
James Burgess, head of commercial for London and UK South East region at Atradius takes a look at the latest developments in the tit-for-tat US-China trade war, and asks...
In the latest edition of Sullivan's trade finance breakfast briefing, partners Geoffrey Wynne outlines the issues in documenting trade finance transactions amid a growing...
Overall volumes of global export finance fell by almost 30% last year compared to 2018 according to the full-year TXF 2019 Export Finance Report. Max Thompson reviews the...
The 589MW CFXD offshore wind project in Taiwan has marked the highest local content percentage for any such project in Asia Pacific. But signing up two Taiwanese...
EKN had a banner year in 2019. EKN’s director general, Anna-Karin Jatko tells TXF about the rise of supplier credits for larger contracts, and how as part of ‘Team...
The aspirations of the EU Green Deal and the bloc's adoption of CRD IV are contradictions that leave lenders and borrowers confused - and more significantly a potential...
The new coronavirus, Covid-19, is shining a light on just how connected global trade is to the world’s second largest economy. TXF takes a look at how China will...
Finnvera’s CEO Pauli Heikkila talks to TXF about how the Finnish ECA’s increased exposure to the cruise ship sector drove much of its stellar growth in 2019. Should...
Sam Fowler-Holmes, senior associate at Sullivan presents the challenges across the trade and commodity finance space, with potential headwinds in 2020 including...
The Taiwanese offshore wind market is on course to emulate another bumper year of ECA-backed project finance prowess in 2020. But not all is as it seems on this nascent...
The commodity trade finance funding mix is evolving. Growing regulation, the rise of alternative funds and all things ESG have contributed to the decline in deal volume...
It may have been a so-so year for many ECAs, but not Euler Hermes. CEO Edna Schoene was in a buoyant mood when she spoke to TXF. Financing ships has boosted business,...
The Polish offshore wind market is gathering pace. Although questions around local content requirements, local liquidity and local currency-denominated PPAs need to be...
It was unseasonably warm for Stockholm in February at EKN’s annual seminar. TXF was in Sweden to hear about the opportunities to finance the transition to carbon zero....
TXF spoke to Gautier Mangenot, VP of business development at Entrepose Group, a subsidiary of Vinci, about the challenges mid-sized EPCs face facilitating infrastructure...
Louis Taylor, CEO of UK Export Finance (UKEF), tells TXF he is all geared up for a busy life after Brexit. How is he facing media concerns about the UK’s export credit...
The heavily ECA-backed financing for Gazprom's Amur gas processing project has set new tenor and volume benchmarks for both the sponsor and Russian oil and gas – even...
The Delphic Oracle has spoken at TXF Global Export Finance Athens 2024 and the auguries are generally good for the export finance industry. We dig through some of the trends revealed at our flagship event and look to the future based on an energetic two-day event full of mythological references.