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14 March 2025

Striking a balance: BU and ICC convene workshop to boost sustainability in export finance

In February the Berne Union and the ICC convened a meeting of export finance practitioners to discuss the future of sustainability in the industry. The key message? A...

10 March 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

TXF's Perfect Ten Commodity Finance Deals of the Year

The wait for the winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Commodity Finance Deals of the Year is over. Read on to find the landmark deals of 2024.

04 March 2025

Drilling into the data: Export finance report 2024

The solid performance of the export finance market in 2024 was mostly driven by the stronger focus on new technologies and the broadening ECA mandate. The news bodes well...

04 March 2025

PEFCO looks for ways to broaden funding - and asset - mix

The public-private funding vehicle for US Exim loans - PEFCO - has completed a debut issue in Euros. And it is also - in the name of improved resilience - looking to add...

03 March 2025

Commodity finance report 2024: A year of innovation

Overall commodity finance volumes grew marginally in 2024. But the most significant findings were product innovations, with digitalisation through collaboration,...

28 February 2025
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Power

Uzbek CCGTs: Efficiently gassed

As Uzbekistan looks to meet growing gas demand while phasing out inefficient Soviet-era power facilities, a DFI/ECA-backed financing for the 1.6GW Surkhandarya CCGT...

21 February 2025
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Metals and Mining

A complete unknown? Trafigura leads the market with innovative eBL financing

In October 2024 Trafigura closed a $2.8 billion borrowing base – the first in the syndicated market to use electronic bills of lading as collateral. How did the trader...

14 February 2025
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Infrastructure

Expert opinion: E/S due diligence in ECA deals – A call for pragmatism

The litany of lengthy environmental and social (E/S) due diligence processes in ECA deals pose significant problems for projects in Africa. Ram Shalita, CEO & Partner at...

11 February 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

The TXF Commodity Trade Finance Industry Report 2024: A sneak peek

The TXF Global Commodity Trade Finance Industry Report 2024 has arrived with qualitative and quantitative insights into industry sentiment. Read on to a find a full...

10 February 2025

OECD courts controversy with end to 95% financing

The OECD has ended a Common Line that increased the maximum available cover on export finance deals to 95%. Critics say that ECAs are abandoning developing market...

07 February 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Podcast: Harding on Trump, tariffs and trade wars

TXF spoke with Dr. Rebecca Harding, an independent trade economist and founder of strategic advisory business, Rebeccanomics to discuss how Trump’s renewed trade wars,...

05 February 2025

Sullivan: Ideas on documenting trade finance transactions

In this trade and export finance webinar, Geoffrey Wynne, Partner in Sullivan's London office, looks at current and potential developments in laws around trade finance...

31 January 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Other, Transport

Corporate perspectives: Embraer’s Piorino on flying higher with its ECA finance footprint

What excites Matheus Piorino, head of customer finance North America, director, at Embraer in 2025? Expanding the footprint of agencies the Brazil-domiciled company is...

23 January 2025

Strategic insight: ING’s Rauhala on balancing sweet and sour in structured export finance

In her first interview since taking over as global head of structured export finance at ING, Anna Rauhala discusses finding the right balance between sweet and sour in...

17 January 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Transport

EV gigafactory risk: Who's on the hook?

Between 2020 and Q1 2024, 12 EV gigafactory project financings signed globally, according to Exile Intelligence. But amid ongoing financial woes, how much exposure do...

10 January 2025
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Oil & gas

Non-banks or none at all? Alternative financing steps up

The commodity finance industry's well-documented flight to size has left trading houses stranded. Alternative financiers have struggled to fill the gap, but could a new...

03 January 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Commodity finance in 2024: A retrospective

TXF presents its top trends in commodity finance from 2024 – as well as a few ones to watch out for in 2025.

02 January 2025

Sullivan law: Looking back to look forward in trade finance

In this trade & export finance webinar, Geoffrey Wynne, Marian Boyle and Mark Norris, Partners in Sullivan's London office, look at what has happened in trade finance in...

20 December 2024

2024: Export finance trends

TXF have wrapped up the major trends in the export finance market in 2024. There's a few to keep an eye on next year too..

13 December 2024

Keynote: Sparking a new chemical reaction at the BU with President Akita

Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne Union and general manager, international and strategic policy, at Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), explains his...