Last week, MSC Cruises signed a letter of intent with STX France for the construction of four LNG-powered ships with France's ECA, Coface, backing the $4.5 billion...

European multi-utility Engie announced a swathe of power generation sales on 25 February. The sales cover 13,000 Megawatt (MW) of capacity, as part of what Engie calls...

Fred Hochberg is now officially the longest serving chairman in the history of US Exim Bank. 2016 was his seventh and final annual conference in the role, and TXF caught...

TXF was on hand at the signing of a new cofinancing agreement last week, between US Ex-Im Bank and Turk Eximbank, aimed at making exporters more competitive, particularly...

Diamonds may be forever, but they are as vulnerable as the next commodity to a global downturn. Diamond miners had a rough year in 2015, although they still outperformed...

At the end of last month, JBIC signed a $63.75 million loan agreement with JSAT as part of $255 million facility with three Japanese banks for the financing of the...

President and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) Fred Hochberg was visibly moved as he addressed US exporters today in the opening speech of the Annual...

At the end of last month, MIGA announced its backing of €698.9 million in loans from two international banks to develop Eskom's power transmission infrastructure in South...

Sierra Rutile is in talks with banks for its first pre-export financing as it plans to restructure its existing debt. However, many banks continue to be wary of lending...

EXIAR, Russia’s ECA, has backed a $130m loan to Atomstroyexport to build a nuclear power plant in India. TXF takes a closer look at the state-support behind the...

Earlier this month, Bangladesh sealed a $2 billion credit line from the Export-Import Bank of India for power development in a deal indicative of an exciting new trend...

SUEK has secured a $1 billion pre-export finance facility showing Russian commodity producers buoyed by a cheap ruble can still access international financing despite...

The ailing Japanese steel sector — the second largest in the world — has received $405 million in financing, in favour of two overseas subsidiaries, from the Japan Bank...

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...