Overall commodity finance volumes grew marginally in 2024. But the most significant findings were product innovations, with digitalisation through collaboration,...
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...
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...
ChemOne is approaching financial close for its flagship Malaysia petrochemicals facility after enduring years of pandemic-related strictures. Its journey has taken in a...
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long...
How do you have a thriving offshore wind export business when you don’t, technically, have an offshore wind industry? Norway’s exporters are finding the answer, and of...
The wait for the winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Commodity Finance Deals of the Year is over. Here are the landmark deals of 2023.
Michal Ron, Chief International Business Officer at SACE, discusses Italy’s record export finance volumes as it moves into ‘fifth gear’ on its ambitious ‘push strategy’....
The future-proofed Hanseatic Energy Hub is a strategically important energy security project for Germany. So where are the German project banks?
Automotive Cells Company's ECA-backed financing for three European gigafactories demonstrates growing international lender comfort for such big-ticket deals with the...
H2GS was founded by Vargas in 2020 and launched in 2021. Three years later it has finalised funding for the world’s first green steel mega project. How? By being open to...
TXF returned to the Hotel President Wilson for its annual Geneva event. Dealmakers in the commodity trade finance community gathered for a day of networking and industry...
Niamh Dennehy-Maher of Allen & Overy and Robert Lang-Anderson of Bank of America examine each market, explain how carbon trading schemes are set up and what the...
Financing the $170 billion African infrastructure gap using domestic capital pools isn’t quite a pie in the sky – there are several financing tools that are already...
TXF speaks to Ntshengedzeni Gilbert Maphula, acting CEO of Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (ECIC), about South Africa’s export credit agency’s...
Export finance activity looks healthy as the industry seeks to build on the successes of H1 2023. The project pipeline reflects new mandates for ECAs in the mining space...
The roughly $3-5 billion financing backing TotalEnergies’ large-scale LNG project in Papua New Guinea is progressing, with lenders expected to show interest in the scheme...
TXF spoke with Philip Lewis, global head of export finance at HSBC to discuss how broadening the remit of ECAs allows for a larger impact in terms of energy transition...
The ECA-backed debt market has witnessed depressed volumes since the turn of the decade amid the economic bulldozer of the pandemic and ominous energy security clouds...
Copper isn’t just a critical metal, it is the critical metal for the global green economy. Complete underinvestment in mining points to a drastic shortage of the metal in...
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 the three cases vary, market conditions are posing problems for lenders of all sizes. How can the community reflect on these events, and what options are borrowers left with?
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 – across financing, business lines and investments.
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 the three cases vary, market conditions are posing problems for lenders of all sizes. How can the community reflect on these events, and what options are borrowers left with?
TXF spoke with Marie-Laure Gastellu, global head of trade finance services at Societe Generale, to outline the latest measures the bank has in place to handle geopolitical risks affecting trade and how new digital platforms are being integrated into trade finance services.
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