ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) – a funding vehicle to ‘phase out’ coal while scaling up renewables in southeast Asia – has lofty goals which pre-date COP26. But...

Seasonal price volatility is causing Chinese LNG buyers to seek out more long-term contracts for the greener fossil fuel gas, but high prices also mean growth will slow...

TXF’s series of local events around Europe at the end of last year prompted plenty of debate around ECA product and policy. The main takeaways from these hybrid sessions...

The export credit agency (ECA) offering has evolved and proved ever resilient in 2021, with yet another buoyant year for the market. But there are still several updates -...

As the end of 2021 nears, TXF takes a look at current trends and challenges in commodity trade finance and their implications for 2022.

As the energy crisis worsens, a multitude of issues surrounding ESG arise – will consumers be able to afford the price hike? And will the recent retreat of investments in...

The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) took centre stage at COP26. Although initiatives like GFANZ will unlock further capital for green infrastructure,...

With widespread disruptions in the trade supply chain and a growing trade finance gap, particularly impacting smaller businesses, a recently released report calls for...

In this fortnight’s Stages for Change instalment, TXF’s Aife Howse speaks to Allen and Overy’s Catherine Lang-Anderson, who heads up the firm’s trade and commodity...

The recent Cirata project financing set some new bankability benchmarks for floating solar in Asia. More substantial deal flow from Asia's island nations may follow, but...

Gustavo Montezano, head of BNDES since 2019, was appointed to rejig the bank’s lending policies and development role. He has done so. Now he has plans for more change...

ESG was at the forefront of the discussion at the TXF Global Commodities event in Geneva. But it wasn’t just climate change and carbon neutrality on people’s minds. The...

“At the moment, there's still a traditional bias related to a lot of jobs in the commodities industry, and we need to break this, in terms of gender as well as diversity...

The TXF Global Commodity Trade Finance Industry Report 2021, which offers an independent, comprehensive, and unique exploration of some of the key trends in the industry...

Is there a wave of zombie companies and insolvencies coming in time for Halloween, insolvency tsunamis approaching, reservoirs to overflow in trade credit insurance, or...

The solely DFI-backed non-recourse debt package funding development of the Meridiam-led 35MW Kinguele Aval hydropower plant in Gabon is set to serve as viable financing...

Private capital within trade finance activity comes from a diverse range of participants. Today, there is increasing involvement from private credit funds within trade...

There's just over three months to go until the first cessation of certain Libor rates. So why do corporate users of trade finance still have a long way to go in...

Following its reorganisation last year, Olam has secured a massive $5.2 billion across three separate facilities to set its new operating groups in motion. With agri...

It has been a long time and much has happened since we held our last physical global commodities event. But come 7-8 October we are back in Geneva and addressing the...