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15 October 2019

ICC: Working together in trade to tackle compliance

Olivier Paul, director of finance for development at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) explains the need to comply with mounting regulation and compliance...

14 October 2019

Corporate perspectives: Roche on the satisfactions of early gpi adoption

Martin Schlageter, head of treasury operations at Roche, the pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland, gives TXF his candid take on SWIFT gpi developments and the...

14 October 2019
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Power

After GNA 1: Will banks turn up the Brazilian LNG-to-power funding tap?

Following the recent financial close on GNA 1, and the Sergipe project the previous year, is the Brazilian LNG-to-power sector ready for commercially banked deals with...

09 October 2019

US Exim: Politics vs profit

US Exim’s full reauthorisation was expected at the end of last month as glimmers of bipartisan support returned to the US ECA. But now big ticket business is under threat...

08 October 2019
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Power, Renewables, Transport

Green and lean: TXF’s Sustainable Deals H1 2019 report

TXF’s debut Sustainable Deals H1 2019 report partnered with Acre Impact Capital to help provide a comprehensive methodology and classify sustainable deals in the ECA...

07 October 2019
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Kernel: Proving bank appetite for Ukrainian corporate debt

Kernel signed a tightly priced $390 million PXF last month – a rare example of a Ukrainian corporate taking the structured trade finance route in 2019. And despite the...

04 October 2019

TXF Sibos smooth-down with CGI

TXF's head of trade, treasury and risk, Katharine Morton, spoke with CGI's product manager for trade and supply chain solutions Patrick DeVilbiss about the key trends he...

02 October 2019

Questions on trade at the centre of the Sibos universe

Katharine Morton looks into the sky at Sibos with a guided tour of hyper connectivity, trust, cosmology, trade and eating fairy cakes at the centre of the universe

02 October 2019
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Renewables

West Bakr: Borrowed template with better pricing

Lekela Power’s DFI-backed financing for its 250MW West Bakr wind project borrows heavily from the Gulf of Suez wind template in 2017. While there have been improvements...

01 October 2019

End of an era: MacNamara’s final say

Before his retirement at the end of last month, after nearly 40 years in the commodity finance sector, TXF spoke with Deutsche Bank’s global head of structured commodity...

25 September 2019

TXF Welcomes Sibos to our Manor!

Introducing TXF’s vital guide to Sibos, the issues raised for the future of financing international trade for banks and corporates alike as SWIFT’s leviathan event comes...

24 September 2019

Heureka: A digitised solution for small-ticket ECA finance

Ahead of TXF Germany this week, Sabine Vigneron, vice president of platform business and product development at AKA, outlines the digital transformation taking place for...

23 September 2019
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Renewables

Soma 4: Turkey debuts gender-tied project loan

Polat Energy has signed a gender-linked facility to finance the 48MW Soma 4 wind farm in Turkey. The project, an extension to the existing 240MW Soma wind farm, marks the...

20 September 2019

SACE SIMEST: ECA excellence despite domestic uncertainty

Ahead of TXF Italy next month, TXF talks to Alessandro Terzulli, chief economist of SACE, about the uncertainties of the economic scenario in which SACE SIMEST currently...

18 September 2019

Looking behind the mask on trade finance at ITFA

Katharine Morton ponders the opacities of financing trade, and what lies beneath, revealed at ITFA’s celebration of a mysterious dance of hide and seek

18 September 2019
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Power, Transport

TXF Export Finance Industry Survey 2019

TXF’s Export Finance Industry Report 2019 is here. The survey, which comprises the views of 259 individual senior export finance practitioners at banks, ECAs, importers,...

16 September 2019

Expert briefing: Writing a new chapter in digital trade

For thousands of years, goods and services have been exchanged between different trading partners. But as supply chains have scaled, the $23 trillion world of global...

16 September 2019

Caribbean Export: Pouring promotion into trade

TXF spoke with Anthony Bradshaw, CEO at Caribbean Export Development Agency, to find out more about promoting the region’s exports to the EU – and beyond. But, the agency...

11 September 2019
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Louis Dreyfus: Laying a seedbed for sustainability-tied debt

ESG-tied debt benefits go beyond a simple PR play for Louis Dreyfus Company, it's now a tightly priced option for the trader, as its latest Asian revolver mimics its...

09 September 2019

A new trade takes shape

Ahead of Sibos 2019 in London this September, CGI’s Rory Kaplan, Senior Offering Manager for Trade and Supply Chain Solutions, and Patrick DeVilbiss, Product Manager for...