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29 August 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Mexico and US strike new trade pact to replace NAFTA

What does the new trade deal, agreed in principle between the US and Mexico, spell out in the finer detail, and what implications could it have for other trade spats and...

03 August 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Super-Sinosure: Pushing the cover boundaries

Sinosure wants to up its short and long-term export credit insurance exposures to over $450 billion by 2020 and is targeting international lenders for far more business....

20 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Trade moves: TXF Data Country Risk Review Q2 2018

As North American risks continue to rise as President Donald Trump undermines NAFTA members with tariffs on iron and steel, the EU remains divided over the issue of...

19 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

US-China get electric on the auto front

Jonathan Bell, Editor-in-Chief at TXF gives us his take on news that Tesla is to build an EV Gigafactory in Shanghai, as well as a review of TXF's market coverage from...

19 June 2018
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Transport

LAX People Mover: Bringing private investment into US airports

The private activity bond for a new light rail facility at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) finds a role for a bond insurer, and a role for PPP in developing...

11 June 2018

TXF Global: 15 trends in export finance

Now the dust has settled after the roaring success of TXF Global in Prague last week, the world’s leading export and agency finance conference, we highlight 15 of the...

04 June 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

US Ex-Im: Rethinking an agency

The US Ex-Im political quagmire continues. So Michael Whalen, managing director at Berkeley Group and former vice president of structured finance at US Ex-Im, asks what a...

30 May 2018
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Oil & gas

Perfect 10: PetroPeru’s ECA flagday

Taking home TXF’s Best Americas ECA deal of the year, PetroPeru's $1.3 billion CESCE-backed facility had to navigate four changes of government in two countries to...

30 May 2018
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Oil & gas

Perfect 10: A sovereign solution

Winning TXF’s Best Middle Eastern ECA deal of the year, the MIDOR expansion financing came in with solid ECA-backed pricing despite a list of hurdles in its two-year...

30 May 2018
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Oil & gas

Perfect 10: Duqm, a slick blended financing

Taking home TXF’s Best Overall ECA deal of the year, government-backed sponsors of the Duqm oil refinery in Oman sealed a multi-billion dollar, multi-sourced...

26 April 2018

Revealed: TXF Data Country Risk Review Q1 2018

With President Trump’s protectionist push straining US trade relationships between Canada, Mexico, and China, Russia’s support of the Syrian regime threatening a broader...

28 March 2018
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Renewables

Mexican renewables: Flagged for funding

Five years on from the Mexico's landmark energy sector reforms, a spate of recent financings – one without DFI backing – support market expectation that the pace of...

12 March 2018
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Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Transport

The pits – but not for much longer

Lending demand from South Africa’s mining sector has been sluggish at best – a symptom of poor economic governance, a new mining charter verging on the absurd and the...

09 March 2018

PSD2: Step one in the wider API-fication of banking services?

With the January 13 deadline for compliance with PSD2 now in the rear-view mirror, you could be forgiven for thinking that the payment regulation is no longer on the...

20 February 2018
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Metals and Mining, Power

Dragged over the coals

Despite the endless stream of PR statements about banks exiting coal-related lending, none can actually track where the proceeds of loans to commodity traders go. When...

07 February 2018

Talking trade tech

TXF catches up with Kitt Carswell, vice president, senior offering manager, trade and supply chain, at CGI, a global information technology consulting company, to reflect...

01 February 2018

UKEF's new box of tricks

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has ramped up its risk appetite with a spate of new product suites, initiatives, and strategies aimed at increasing support for SMEs. TXF spoke...

09 January 2018

Trade risk triggers

An executive summary of TXF's key global country risk ratings for January 2018.

14 December 2017
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Infrastructure, Transport

Brightline: Take your seats

With few exceptions, US travellers have little love for inter-city rail travel. Having pulled off a $600 million non-investment grade PAB issue for its Brightline private...

28 November 2017

TFF 2.0: What do the banks make of it?

In June, the EIB launched its upgraded Trade Finance Facility 2.0 – to enable Greek banks to ramp up support for SMEs and Midcaps. TXF caught up with international and...