The 2025 edition of TXF’s annual Commodity Finance Research Report is now available. It reflects the views of a market that has been bruised by disruptions to trade:...

Todd Winterhalt, senior vice-president of international markets at Export Development Canada (EDC), discusses EDC’s role in Canada’s market diversification at Berne...

Åke Nordlander, director general at EKN discusses strategy in his new role, the increased prominence of defence, which now forms the largest part of the Swedish ECA’s...

Sweeping EU restrictions on Russian gas are set to upend contract structures and supply routes by 2028. As Brussels phases out Russian energy, commodity finance players...

The outlook for the green hydrogen market has been challenged in recent years despite positive rhetoric from industry stakeholders. A consistent financing pipeline is yet...

Uzbekistan’s growing energy market provides plenty of opportunities for infrastructure development, and ECAs are showing enthusiasm. Gas remains essential to its...

At ITFA's annual trade finance event, this year in Singapore, TXF's Katharine Morton hears whether trade finance is likely be one of the things that gain from disorder.

Changing business models and technologies have made it harder for ECAs and commercial banks to support satellite launches. But the demand for satellite connectivity is...

A new agreement between Trafigura and Korea’s public gas company will deliver a decade of LNG imports to Korean companies. It is another sign of Korea’s efforts to...

Ahead of Exile's Asia 2025 event in Singapore, Euler Hermes, KUKE and SFIL share their insights with TXF on the biggest opportunities and challenges in the region over...

West African cocoa production has been in decline amid poor yields and falling demand. But the Africa Cocoa Exchange aims to return cocoa pricing power to Africa, improve...

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

Critical mineral supply chains sit at the centre of present geopolitical tensions, from China’s processing monopoly to Ukraine’s untapped deposits. ECAs have been armed...

Hrvoje Čuvalo, President of the Management Board of the Croatian Bank of Reconstruction and Development, HBOR, and host of the Berne Union’s Spring Meeting in Dubrovnik,...

The transformation of the export, project and development finance spaces are underway. But can the converging sectors write their next act amid the heightening...

The walled city of Dubrovnik is a fitting setting to a resilience-themed Berne Union Spring meeting hosted by HBOR, Croatia’s export credit agency. TXF spoke to Yuichiro...

The mood music at the 11th edition of the TXF Amsterdam Global Commodity Finance event was downbeat. Spawned by amplifying tariff concerns, limited debt appetite from...

The greatest impact of the second Trump administration is likely to be through its application of tariffs on global trade flows. But its impacts on project pipelines and...

Daniel Bembennek, head of finance and guarantees, in the decarbonisation technologies sector at thyssenkrupp, argues that long term trends towards decarbonisation are...

The trade finance industry has suffered a trio of ailments since the end of 2024 with the shuttering of three different non-bank lenders. While the circumstances across...