Stanford, USA-headquartered Finacity Corporation has launched a multi-jurisdiction trade receivables securitisation for ZIM Integrated Shipping Services (ZIM). The...

Paris-headquartered Cofarco has opened its first office abroad in Geneva, with a view to further strengthening its franchise with commodity trading companies and banks in...

The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), the industry body representing the country’s cocoa producers, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new medium-term trade...

International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Citi have signed a $1.2 billion risk-sharing facility to help stimulate the growth of trade in emerging markets and to support...

At the end of September, US multinational General Electric signed a cooperation agreement with Britain’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance. The MoU could oversee up...

Italy’s export credit agency, SACE, has signed two agreements with the United Arab Emirates for project development in the Emirates – and coupled with this is an umbrella...

TXF recently caught up with the five most prolific dealmakers on tagmydeals to find out a little bit about them, their favourite deals from the first half of 2015, and...

Daniel Riordan reviews the risks facing insurers in 2015 and highlights how the Berne Union is adapting to help its members

EKF, Denmark’s export credit agency, knows from experience with small and medium- sized enterprises that they are an increasingly important sector of the economy and that...

Annual business volumes of many insurers and banks are more often than not driven by project finance and large corporate loan transactions. However, when looking at the...

Finland’s Export Guarantee Act was amended in September 2014 to enable export credit agency (ECA) Finnvera to grant guarantees also to large companies in Finland for...

Sinosure's chairman, Wang Yi, describes how the world’s largest ECA has changed both procedures and structure as it undergoes rapid growth.

The UK government aims to help make London the leading centre for offshore renminbi (RMB) business outside China, not least because the currency has now overtaken the...

Although notable changes have been witnessed across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the past few decades, the region has undeniably transformed as of...

Following the international trend in the creation of export credit agencies (ECAs) after World War II, South Africa began to offer official support for export...

The North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) came into effect on 1 January 1994, and with it arrived a fundamental structural change. In fact, Mexico embraced an...

Local currency finance is often viewed as exotic and difficult to execute but, with care, offshore guarantors can enable financing better suited to local borrowers....

In the years following the 2007-08 financial crisis, UK Export Finance (UKEF) watched the increased use of direct lending schemes by ECAs with interest.

The valley on the shores of the saline Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is sometimes described as extraterrestrial. The area is a desert, dry and sparsely populated, mostly...

Exporters – large, medium, small or tiny – play a vital role in any economy. Creating a business-friendly environment for these companies to help increase exports is...