SME EPC contractors may lack the scale and track record of the industry’s traditional heavyweights, but in emerging market infrastructure they are becoming too important for ECAs and lenders to ignore.

Shopping line credits are emerging as a key evolution in export finance. The tailored and flexible product is bound by procurement commitments unlike rigid buyer credits - but supplier pricing sensitives and the promise to buy more from one country can be tricky.

On the sidelines of the lill Global Symposium in Oxford this month, TXF spoke with Chris Mitman, a partner at Acre Capital to find out how deployment is going for its Export Finance Fund 1, which threads impact dollars into export finance deals.