Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, is the word on everybody’s lips in financial circles. TXF’s Helen Reid looks in depth at the technology’s applications to...

TXF looks at Export Development Canada's unique and controversial 'pull strategy,' of untied financing to foreign companies like BMW.

In an industry braced for change, JBIC continues a move into offshore wind with a joint €443 million refinancing on Holland's Luchterduinen wind farm.

The state of trade, commodity and export finance in Brazil: special correspondent Luis Waldmann looks at the avenues that Brazilian exporters have for export, commodity...

Canada's export credit agency, Export Development Canada (EDC), recently announced it will provide its global mentoring services to the 50 winners of Deloitte Canada's...

UK Export Finance’s chief executive, Louis Taylor, tells TXF how the export credit agency is broadening its product suite to offer more support to UK exporters.

In a move which demonstrates the tightening of Russian ties with Chinese financing, Gazprom accessed its biggest ever loan from a private Chinese lender, signing 2...

Brazil’s largest paper producer, Klabin, received the first tranche of a $300 million A/B structured loan last week via the Inter-American Development Bank to fund a...

Kazakhstan’s state-owned KazMunaiGas is closing a $3 billion prepayment deal with commodities trader Vitol for crude shipments, in an effort to increase liquidity in...

With the long-awaited BRICS Bank due to begin lending next month, TXF looks at how the institution is breaking away from the western model of development finance to meet...

The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim) last month signed a $150 million line of credit with Iran's Bank of Industry and Mine to finance rail upgrades in Iran. The...

In a sign that Russia’s Metalloinvest is finally feeling the chill of the current frosty steel market, the iron ore and metals company last week signed a new $400 million...

Aeris Holdings, the operator of Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaria International Airport, completes a $127 million refinancing of a loan that will double the airport’s...

Hong Kong-based commodities trader Noble Group is in talks to refinance a $1 billion revolving credit facility. If pricing on the new loan does triple, as reports...

Ghana has approved its new Export-Import Bank after months of political wrangling. But will export financiers be prepared to engage with Africa’s latest export credit...

ADB has earmarked $10 billion for Indonesia over the next five years in a bid to support the government's development priorities. TXF speaks with ADB's Steven Tabor to...

US Exim could be one step closer to being able to fully supporting US exporters following Senator Shelby’s recent victory at the Alabama Primary.

International banks are showing renewed interest in investments in Nigeria’s oil sector, as the new management of state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...

Glencore plans to ramp up debt reduction, cutting net debt to $17 billion-$18 billion by the end of this year, as it announced big losses in its annual results. The news...

Export, commodity and project finance lenders face an increased risk of non-repayment as more emerging market countries turn to capital controls to protect their...