The pause on permitting for some US LNG projects is causing a political stink. But beyond the screams from the fossil fuel lobbyists, what immediate impact on the US LNG...

TXF Global Export Finance Lisbon gathered the higher echelons of the ECA community last week in a seminal event aimed at amplifying and improving the export finance...

TXF’s Perfect 10 Awards recognise the best and brightest in export and commodities finance worldwide, and submissions are now open. Submit your deals by 16 January, and...

The heady history of port helped marry tradition and innovation at ITFA’s in person annual trade finance event in Porto. TXF’s Katharine Morton kept her feet steady while...

Trade digitisation has taken a big step forward globally with the announcement that the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill is on its way to becoming law. What’s the...

The TXF Bespoke Bank Heatmap Research Reports - comprising both quantitative and qualitative data - delve into the strengths and weaknesses of the top 15 commodity trade...

Following its reorganisation last year, Olam has secured a massive $5.2 billion across three separate facilities to set its new operating groups in motion. With agri...

On 27 April the European Union (EU) ratified the Brexit trade agreement with the United Kingdom. Here, TXF speaks to Alan Farkas, partner at international law firm Dorsey...

The problems at the Oyu Tolgoi mining project in Mongolia mean the sponsors, Rio Tinto via its ownership of Turquoise Hill Resources, will have to raise $1 billion-plus...

First State Investments-owned Finerge’s recent Portuguese wind portfolio refinancing knocked around 100bp off the cost of debt and upped the tenor. But most significantly...

In advance of the ICC World Banking Commission annual meeting in Beijing, TXF gathered China financial experts and corporates to talk about financing China trade....

European solar is predicted to balloon again in the next two years. But with the move to merchant, a relatively seminal corporate PPA market, development of...

A dramatic fall in the proportion of Russia’s reserves held in dollars may seem counter-intuitive from an economic point of view when the greenback is so prominent in...

TXF spoke with Charles Xu, managing director of commercial finance & capital markets at GE China, to discuss the benefits of directly sourcing Chinese financings in a...

With a new report from the World Bank concluding that the participation rate of institutional investors in infrastructure projects remains low, TXF looks at some of the...

Sanjeev Gupta is the man behind the ascent of Liberty House from commodity trading start-up into an international metals and industrials group. And in conversation with...

With interest in our TXF Singapore event greater than ever, the delegate list reads like a who’s who of trade, treasury and commodity finance professionals in Asia. Will...

Charles Hall, the acting chairman of US Ex-Im has retired from the bank. What does this mean for the agency which is still without a board quorum and unable to approve...

The second restructuring of Glencore’s pre-pay deal with SHT, combined with more deal volume and the increasingly risky markets traders are financing, is flagging up the...

Unable to approve transactions of more than $10 million for over a year now, the two Trump nominees for the new US Ex-Im quorum have sent a mixed message to the...