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14 April 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Atishoo: Non-bank trade finance trio catch a cold

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...

07 April 2025

Exiled: Marlon Smith, JLC Infrastructure

Today’s Exile is Marlon Smith, Managing Partner at JLC Infrastructure. As well as heading up Magic Johnson’s infrastructure fund, Marlon is a keen musician and propounder...

04 April 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Traders take on assets as commodity volatility fades

Commodity traders reaped substantial profits off the back of market volatility in 2022 and 2023. With their war chests armed, they pursued a policy of diversification –...

31 March 2025

Exiled: Catherine Lang Anderson, A&O

Welcome to Exiled: The Real Assets People, a podcast where we ‘strand’ a guest on a desert island and ask them who from their professional past, present, and future...

28 March 2025
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Other, Renewables, Transport

Never write off Türkiye

Türkiye is the rising star of the export finance community as a source of demand and as a home for internationally renowned EPC contractors. A surge in activity has...

25 March 2025

Perfect 10: Export Finance Deals of the Year

This year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 weren't only about size, although there were benchmark deals in terms of volume and sectors. They were more symptomatic of the...

21 March 2025
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Metals and Mining

Corporate perspectives: ‘Mine baby, mine’ (responsibly) with NioCorp’s CEO

Mark A Smith, executive chairman and CEO at NioCorp Developments, will use US (and UK and German) export credit agency support to dig for critical minerals in Nebraska....

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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..