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15 November 2024
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Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Renewables

UKEF navigates broadening mandates at home and abroad

A few short weeks after UKEF announced its involvement in a number of domestic supplier credit deals, the ECA published an independent report on OECD-level reform for...

14 November 2024

TXF Dealmakers of the Year 2024

TXF is pleased to announce the winners of its Dealmakers of the Year Awards for 2024, a celebration of the most decorated export finance practitioners from our Dealmakers...

04 November 2024

TXF, Proximo and Uxolo mourn the loss of Sean Keating

Exile Group is devastated to announce the death of our editor, Sean Keating.

04 November 2024

ECA, DFI and ODA – all under the one Kexim umbrella

It has been a year since Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) set up a development finance operation. Hwang Kiyeon, senior executive director and board member at Kexim,...

25 October 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Transport

Euro gigafactories: Parking debt

Europe’s gigafactory bubble is bursting with battery makers Northvolt and ACC halting schemes amid waning demand for EVs. With project sponsors reviewing business models,...

21 October 2024
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Metals and Mining

Unearthing solutions for a green transition: ECAs join the Minerals Security Partnership

The Minerals Security Partnership Finance Network will attempt to boost ECA and DFI support for critical mineral projects around the world. At a time of uncertainty in...

04 October 2024
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Renewables

STX Group upsizes and upends the sceptics

STX Group has closed a repeat of its pioneering 2023 environmental commodities borrowing base deal – and it is bigger, bolder and has more banks. How did the trader...

19 September 2024

The rise of untied ECA lending

Untied ECA lending has surpassed tied business volumes in three regions in the first half of this year. But what does this mean for exporters and banks?

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

28 June 2024
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals

ChemOne: Navigating a difficult path to financial close

ChemOne is approaching financial close for its flagship Malaysia petrochemicals facility after enduring years of pandemic-related strictures. Its journey has taken in a...

04 June 2024

The TXF Export Finance Survey pt 1: Not feeling it quite yet

The macro environment is still a little unsettled. So the industry is not completely willing to accept the good news on transaction volumes.

31 May 2024

Keynote: US Ex-Im Chair Lewis, don’t wait for business to come to you

In advance of her appearance at TXF Global in Athens, Reta Jo Lewis, President and Chair of Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) spoke to TXF about the...

28 May 2024

ITFA 50th Annual trade finance conference in Limassol: The stuff of legends

ITFA celebrates its 50th anniversary on the island birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite on 4-6 September. TXF is thrilled to be Conference Community Partner for what...

20 May 2024

Keynote: UKEF’s CEO Reid looks through new lenses for exporters

Tim Reid, CEO of UK Export Finance, discusses the lenses through which the ECA will define the success of its new business plan, which builds on its record as the fourth...