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02 September 2024

Too high a price

Africa pays a premium for its debt that in many instances it should not. Why the onerous debt costs? And what can be done about it without major systemic change?

02 September 2024

TXF export finance H1 data pt 2: New tech drives European deal flow

New asset classes are emerging as ECAs get smarter in how they extend to support, from EV gigafactories to mining deals. And developing markets are slowly becoming higher...

30 August 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Commodity finance H1 2024: Are smaller tickets a cause for optimism?

TXF’s H1 2024 Commodity Finance Data Report brings some positive news for the industry. While headline volumes have fallen, the total number of deals is up – are lenders...

23 August 2024
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Oil & gas

Cedar LNG: Canada's FLNG benchmark

The Cedar LNG project forms part of a burgeoning pipeline of Canadian LNG projects looking to take advantage of strong demand for LNG imports from several Asian markets....

15 August 2024

Export finance H1 data report pt 1: Deal volumes drop by half

The export finance market failed to match the highs of the first half of 2023 in H1 this year. Both volumes and average deal size are down. Though based on the pattern of...

08 August 2024
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power

Ukraine in 2024: ECA support falls behind the curve

Ukraine’s infrastructure funding gap now sits at around $486 billion, according to figures from the World Bank. With no signs of a cessation in hostilities, what...

07 August 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Africa agri trade: Are lenders’ risk perceptions misplaced?

Trade financiers are taking a more conservative approach to lending to the increasingly volatile agri sector in Africa. But is the heightened African risk perception...

05 August 2024

Strategic insight: SocGen’s Camilli on navigating the overlap of export, project and development finance for sustainability

In the first of a new series, TXF looks at the way different financial institutions are approaching the crossovers between export, project and development finance in...

02 August 2024
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Renewables

Finding the financing formula: The ECA project pipeline in 2024

Export finance activity looks strong as the industry enters the second half of the year, but there is room to improve if ECAs want to match record volumes in 2023. The...

26 July 2024
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications

The new entrants fuelling a growing export finance market

The record surge in export finance volumes in 2023 was not just driven by existing banks writing larger tickets. TXF looks at the new lenders in export finance, and the...

26 July 2024
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Telecoms and Communications

Sonatel’s securitisation: Connecting local investors and telecoms

The importance of digital infrastructure cannot be underestimated: a community connected to the internet generates jobs, security, and economic growth. Telecoms providers...

24 July 2024

Sullivan law: Plugging the trade finance gap

In this trade & export finance webinar, Sam Fowler-Holmes, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, consider some of the drivers behind the ever-growing trade finance gap...

19 July 2024

Navigating the market: Insights from the 2023 US Exim Competitiveness Report

US Exim has released its annual competitiveness report, and the story is familiar. While progress has been made in dealmaking since its 2019 reauthorisation, Exim remains...

16 July 2024

Keynote: Euler Hermes’ Schoene, on delivering the transformation message

Edna Schoene, CEO of Euler Hermes, naturally chose the eponymous messenger Hermes as her legendary figure of choice when TXF spoke to her at Global 2024: Export, Project...

12 July 2024
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Oil & gas, Renewables

Looking for the alternatives: EET Fuels on its plans for decarbonisation

EET Fuels is leading the development of a major UK hydrogen cluster around its Stanlow refinery operations. The company has put its decarbonisation plans firmly behind...

09 July 2024
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Renewables

TXF Athens: DEG's DeWit on upping DFI support

TXF spoke with Natalie DeWit, DEG Invest's head of strategy to outline how the German DFI is backing small-scale projects and gender-based SME lending to its first green...

08 July 2024

TXF Athens: ADB’s verdant green horizons

Bart Raemaekers, head of guarantees and syndications at ADB, outlines how the bank’s $13 billion pipeline is leveraging de-risking elements to meet a strong commercial...

05 July 2024

Data dive: SACE surfs the wave, and makes its own ones

SACE has recorded huge increases in activity in recent years, primarily in support of domestic priorities. But is it pushing hard enough into the sectors and geographies...

02 July 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Power, Telecoms and Communications

TXF Athens: Power International Holding, a growing business incubator

TXF spoke to Eyad Abdulrahim, Group CFO of Power International Holding (PIH) to outline the company’s market penetration strategy across global real estate, hospitality,...

28 June 2024
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Infrastructure, Renewables

TXF Athens: ILX Fund's broader church of investors

TXF spoke with Guillaume Le Bris, head of infrastructure and energy at ILX Fund to discuss how the Amsterdam-based fund is working with DFIs and governments to attract...