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12 September 2024

EDC’s Lavery on creating a legacy of no wrong doors to export finance support

Mairead Lavery at EDC is coming to the end of her term as CEO. She discusses changes in her philosophy, the need for reform of Common Approaches, and creating a robust...

23 August 2024
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Oil & gas

Cedar LNG: Canada's FLNG benchmark

The Cedar LNG project forms part of a burgeoning pipeline of Canadian LNG projects looking to take advantage of strong demand for LNG imports from several Asian markets....

27 June 2024

Catch up on all 2024 event content and online ECA training

Having exclusive access to our extensive library of 2024 content is a game-changer. Catch up on sessions from Global 2024 and more, plus make use of TXF’s online ECA...

22 April 2024
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Other, Renewables, Transport

Keynote: Eksfin’s CEO on the answers blowing in the wind

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...

27 June 2023
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Renewables

ECAs poised to rescue world's largest biomass plant

ECA-backed lenders to the world’s largest biomass power station in Teeside, England, are poised to inject £80 million of rescue financing into the project.

15 June 2023
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Oil & gas, Renewables

A greener direction for UKEF?

UKEF is ready for a reset with a new CEO in office and a new set of priorities, including a focus on opportunities for green exports. But how can ECAs ensure that their...

03 March 2023
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Commodity finance 2022: Consolidation and diversification in the spotlight

2022 was almost instantly off to a detrimentally rocky start as Russia invaded Ukraine in February, sending global commodities supply chains into meltdown with its...

03 February 2023

DRC mining gets a boost with ECA and agency involvement

Recent copper and cobalt mine development financings in the DRC by EKN and SEK from Sweden and African development bank TDB are likely to act as encouragement to other...

17 January 2023

Trade Finance TV: Asia’s journey to net zero

As Asia transitions away from fossil fuels and ramps up clean energy infrastructure, what does this mean for trade and project finance? Where are we seeing innovation in...

11 January 2023

Janus: Forecasting a bumpy, but manageable, ride

Exporters, banks and insurers are going to be impacted by future uncertainties and driven by past problems. What does 2023 trade and export finance look like from the...

30 August 2022
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals

Project ONE: Raising the European petchem project debt benchmark

ECAs and banks are yet to be mandated for Europe’s largest petrochemicals investment in the past 20 years – Ineos’ ethylene plant in Belgium. But despite ongoing...

16 August 2022
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Renewables

Renewables costs: The only way is up - or is it?

Renewables supply chain costs are going up. The cost of project debt is going up. The cost of hedging is going up. But costings for many projects were agreed long before...

02 August 2022
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Metals and Mining, Power

TXF Global: A closer look at the ECA data

As part of TXF Global Export, Agency, and Project Finance 2022, TXF’s head of product, Alfonso Olivas was joined by founder and managing director of GKB Ventures, Gabriel...

29 June 2022

In the leafy month of June: A blockchain yikes for bank financing of SME trade?

Blockchain was heralded and hyped as a great hope for SMEs accessing trade finance. Now, with a couple of failures of prominent solutions, questions are being asked....

13 June 2022
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Metals and Mining

Ground net zero?

Growth of metals and rare earths mining is crucial to building out the renewables infrastructure required to meet the Paris climate goals. But short-termism and liquidity...

20 April 2022
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Metals and Mining, Renewables

The convergence of export & project finance: All roads lead to Lisbon

The who’s who of the export & project finance community have already booked their places to TXF Global/Proximo Europe 2022 in Lisbon from 7-9 June. Have you got your all...

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...

10 November 2021
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Power, Renewables

COP-ious pledges to transform climate finance?

COP26 has marked a tectonic shift in the architecture of the global financial system to deliver net zero. But the next NDCs should be sooner than every five years to set...

26 October 2021
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Infrastructure, Other, Power, Renewables, Waste and water

Montezano on BNDES: A different force for change

Gustavo Montezano, head of BNDES since 2019, was appointed to rejig the bank’s lending policies and development role. He has done so. Now he has plans for more change...

08 September 2021

Producers that tap project debt

From Vitol’s $7.9 billion Offshore Cape Three Points oil and gas project in Ghana five years ago to Geopacific Resources’ Woodlark gold project in Papua New Guinea this...