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26 June 2024

Global 2024 Export, Project & Development Finance, Athens: The Oracle speaks

The Delphic Oracle has spoken at TXF Global Export Finance Athens 2024 and the auguries are generally good for the export finance industry. We dig through some of the...

08 November 2023

Keynote: EKN’s Jatko on the wisdom of cooperation

As EKN passes its 90th anniversary milestone, celebrating its ‘wise old lady’ status, CEO Anna-Karin Jatko reflects on risks and the need for more cooperation in an...

18 October 2023

EKN: Nimble at ninety

There has been much to celebrate in what has been another record year for EKN at its 90th birthday in a venue that provided plenty of metaphors for the themes of...

09 August 2023
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Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Power

WEXIF: Women in export and infrastructure finance buzz with energy

On the sidelines of TXF Global in Lisbon, the inaugural women in export and infrastructure finance (WEXIF) session was abuzz with energy. Here are a few of the main...

16 February 2022
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Power, Renewables, Transport

Frank talking for ECAs on ESG: On comparing apples and pears

Export credit agencies are still finding their way on how to deliver sustainable export finance in a measurable, consistent and transparent way. Collaboration is...

02 February 2022
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Power, Renewables

Sustainability in export finance – the push for change

The volume of sustainable deals within the export finance sector is growing. But to take this forward positively across all industrial sectors a sensible debate with a...

02 November 2021
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Power, Transport

COP-out or green finance progress?

The plethora of pledges emerging apace from COP26 are expected to spur a spate of emerging market corporate issuance in the capital markets. But with green finance taking...

11 March 2020

Women investing in women: A diverse ecosystem for trade

On 8 March, men and women across the world celebrated International Women’s Day. This week, TXF’s Eavie Burnett takes a closer look at the vital role women and other...

02 March 2020
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Infrastructure, Telecoms and Communications, Transport

Keynote: Opening up EKN's one-stop guarantees shop

EKN had a banner year in 2019. EKN’s director general, Anna-Karin Jatko tells TXF about the rise of supplier credits for larger contracts, and how as part of ‘Team...

12 February 2020

EKN: On exporting Sweden’s fossil free energy future

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....

26 July 2018

Back of the net: The stated goals of export finance

TXF's third export finance podcast of 2018 discusses the industry goals of five export finance practitioners over the coming years.

01 June 2018

Can export finance be a ‘force for good’? New TXF podcast released

TXF's second export finance podcast of 2018 asks whether the industry is, or can be, a force for good? This is the final discussion before our 2018 live show at TXF...

24 February 2017

TXF Venice preliminary agenda confirmed

TXF Events has unveiled the preliminary agenda for its annual flagship global conference covering project, infrastructure, export & agency finance. TXF Venice 2017: The...

07 June 2016

SMEs help EKN double number of guarantees in Q1

Increased demand from SMEs has Swedish ECA EKN double its number of guarantees in Q1 of 2016 compared to the first quarter of 2015.

02 July 2015

MIGA recruits Karin Finkelston as COO

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has recruited and appointed Karin Finkelston as vice president and chief operating officer (COO). In her new role,...

24 October 2014

Berne Union and Prague Club come together for landmark meeting in London

Members of the Berne Union – International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers – came together in London this week for their annual general meeting (AGM). At the same...

24 October 2014

Michal Ron elected as new vice president of Berne Union

This week the Berne Union – the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers – came together in London for their annual general meeting (AGM), which is also the...

18 September 2014

IFC provides loan and advisory support for Myanmar bank

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is to support the Myanmar commercial bank, Yoma Bank, with a $5 million convertible loan and advisory services.

05 September 2014

StanChart appoints Karin Flinspach head of cash products

UK-headquartered Standard Chartered bank (StanChart) has appointed former Citi employee Karin Flinspach as its new head of cash products for transaction banking.

22 July 2014

Fewer accounts, greater benefits

The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) can ease the transaction processes of increasingly global trade flows, but to realise its full potential further innovation is...