In a tale of closely held cards, sensitivities and ripple effects, TXF takes a look behind a complicated CPRI market. What’s really happening in the private insurance...

ECA-backed non-cruise deals accounted for a total deal volume of $5 billion in the shipping sector in 2021. But that figure is expected to rise as the war in Ukraine...

What will be the key words for financing trade this year? If last year was all about resilience and pivoting will this year be picking yourself up, dusting yourself off,...

The prolonged Covid pandemic is encouraging significant changes in global trade patterns, and according to a recent HSBC survey, Asian corporates are expanding their...

On 17 July, TXF gathered a diverse group of trade finance professionals to celebrate our female and minority leaders. TXF’s Eavie Burnett highlights a few of the...

It was unseasonably warm for Stockholm in February at EKN’s annual seminar. TXF was in Sweden to hear about the opportunities to finance the transition to carbon zero....

It’s not often nowadays that trade financiers get a positive survey to chew upon. Stuart Nivison digests HSBC’s latest Navigator Survey with TXF. Is the remarkable degree...

Shailesh Kumar, head of country, credit, and economic research at The Hartford, examines the categorisation of emerging and developed markets and whether it is, or should...

A new report on competition within export, ECA-backed and development financing and how some of these practices are distorting the multilateral finance system has just...

There are many approaches to trade digitisation, but DBS Bank is taking a different path to many of its peers. It’s early days, but Abdul Raof Latiff thinks that the road...

Great strides are now being made in enhancing commodity logistics through the use of blockchain in commodity shipments. Jonathan Bell explores some of the recent...

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...

For many borrowers ECAs and DFIs can both be ill-fitting pegs in a very deep infrastructure hole, particularly on multi-sourced financings. According to Arun Kumar...

India and Nepal look to fortify trade ties that have come under strain in recent years, as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attempts to implement his 'Neighbourhood...

At a BNY Mellon-hosted roundtable in Abu Dhabi, TXF sat down with a number of UAE banks to discuss the region’s economic developments, the evolving trade arena, and how...

Oman-based drilling rig operator Dalma Energy International has secured a $77.5 million financing arranged by Bank Sohar and Qatar National Bank (QNB).

Following a range of criticism directed at the State Bank of India (SBI), the bank has defended its position on the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with...

Today, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released its Trade Register Report 2014. The empirical evidence from the report points to the fact that trade and...

TXF talks with several Asia-Pacific heads of export finance about trends and prospects for the business line in the region.

Export credit agencies (ECAs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) have very different purposes, mandates and in the case of multilateral institutions, ownership...