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13 December 2024

Keynote: Sparking a new chemical reaction at the BU with President Akita

Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne Union and general manager, international and strategic policy, at Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), explains his...

09 December 2024

Sullivan law: a DFI and ECA update from COP 29

To coincide with COP 29, in this trade & export finance webinar Mark Norris, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, of Sullivan's London office look at the current...

06 December 2024
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Infrastructure

Angola: The African ECA benchmark

The latest Angolan Ministry of Finance ECA-backed loan to sign to fund the construction of an airport marks the country's ninth such sovereign deal this year, with Angola...

02 December 2024

Celebrating Sean Keating: ‘A bashed out obit’ for TXF, Proximo and Uxolo

Every article should have a call to action in the 'standfirst'. It's particularly tough to do that on an obituary for a much loved friend and colleague. Thanks to all...

28 November 2024
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Infrastructure

Cameroon seals landmark road deal with Italian SMEs

Cameroon recently signed an ECA-backed loan for a strategic national road project. The deal has provided a financial blueprint for SME exporters to get involved in future...

22 November 2024

The changing face of export finance: TXF Dealmakers Assembly 2024

The TXF Dealmakers Assembly landed in Vienna for two days of networking constructive debate. Amid increased competition from non-OECD financiers, ECAs are being pushed to...

15 November 2024
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Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Renewables

UKEF navigates broadening mandates at home and abroad

A few short weeks after UKEF announced its involvement in a number of domestic supplier credit deals, the ECA published an independent report on OECD-level reform for...

14 November 2024

TXF Dealmakers of the Year 2024

TXF is pleased to announce the winners of its Dealmakers of the Year Awards for 2024, a celebration of the most decorated export finance practitioners from our Dealmakers...

05 November 2024

Sullivan law: Documenting transactions and what to do when they go wrong

In this trade & export finance webinar, Geoffrey Wynne, Partner, shares some thoughts on approaches to documentation, actions to take and solutions to consider where a...

04 November 2024

ECA, DFI and ODA – all under the one Kexim umbrella

It has been a year since Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) set up a development finance operation. Hwang Kiyeon, senior executive director and board member at Kexim,...

25 October 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Transport

Euro gigafactories: Parking debt

Europe’s gigafactory bubble is bursting with battery makers Northvolt and ACC halting schemes amid waning demand for EVs. With project sponsors reviewing business models...

21 October 2024

Strategic insight: Vantage Risk’s Granda on CPRI, MDBs, infra, tenor and lots of tech

Lila Granda talks strategy in her first interview since her appointment as head of political risk & credit, and Vantage Risk Companies’ admission to Berne Union as full...

21 October 2024
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Metals and Mining

Unearthing solutions for a green transition: ECAs join the Minerals Security Partnership

The Minerals Security Partnership Finance Network will attempt to boost ECA and DFI support for critical mineral projects around the world. At a time of uncertainty in...

16 October 2024

Sullivan & Worcester: Market update on legal issues relating to trade finance

In this trade & export finance webinar, Simon Cook, Partner, looks at issues around risk, structuring and security, including some recent bumps in the road, and discusses...

14 October 2024

Keynote: KfW IPEX-Bank CEO Rudack on how to create a sustainable growth mindset

TXF looks at the way different financial institutions are approaching the crossovers between export, project and development finance for sustainable economic development....

10 October 2024

Asia 2024: Marubeni on powering transition

TXF spoke with Pui Yin Tham, VP for business development at Marubeni to discuss the hurdles in the project and ECA finance spaces amid electricity market liberalisation....

07 October 2024

Asia 2024: Collaboration for energy transition

There was a clear mantra echoing through the conference plenary room at Exile Asia: Agency, Energy and Infrastructure Finance last week. Collaboration, collaboration,...

04 October 2024
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Renewables

STX Group upsizes and upends the sceptics

STX Group has closed a repeat of its pioneering 2023 environmental commodities borrowing base deal – and it is bigger, bolder and has more banks. How did the trader...

30 September 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Other, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport

Corporate perspectives: Behringer solders connections with Siemens FS

Tobias Behringer, head of finance advisory, Siemens Financial Services, discusses his role in the transformed Siemens organisation as part of the connective tissue for...

19 September 2024

The rise of untied ECA lending

Untied ECA lending has surpassed tied business volumes in three regions in the first half of this year. But what does this mean for exporters and banks?