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08 August 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

20 Minutes With: Preslav Raykov, Eleen Marine

TXF spoke with Preslav Raykov, global head of trading at Eleen Marine about the importance of risk controls in the present geopolitical environment as well as strategies...

01 August 2025

Corporate perspectives: Jebsen & Jessen’s Schwartzhaupt on navigating shy investors through export finance

Ralf Schwarzhaupt, CEO, managing partner at Jebsen & Jessen Industrial Solutions, cautions that global uncertainty is making investors shy away from long term decisions....

16 July 2025
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Power, Renewables

EGL2: Subsea connections take time

The Eastern Green Link 2 project will help to upgrade the UK’s electricity highway and provides a viable ECA-backed template to spur more green loans in the space. But...

26 June 2025

10 minutes with Abdulrahman Al Sowaidi, CEO, QDB

TXF talks to Abdulrahman Al Sowaidi, CEO of Qatar Development Bank (QDB), at the Exile Global 2025 event, discussing topics such as QDB's multifaceted product offering...

17 June 2025

Resilience meets internationalisation in Croatia with HBOR’s Cuvalo

Hrvoje Čuvalo, President of the Management Board of the Croatian Bank of Reconstruction and Development, HBOR, and host of the Berne Union’s Spring Meeting in Dubrovnik,...

06 June 2025
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Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications

JBIC: The in/outward face of Japan Inc

TXF spoke with Hiroke Sekine, managing executive officer, global head of infrastructure and environment finance group at JBIC to discuss how the Japanese ECA is...

02 June 2025

Exiled: Silvia Gavornikova, OECD

Today’s guest is Silvia Gavornikova, Head of Export Credits and Competition Division at the OECD. With over 20 years of experience in export finance - as well as some...

30 May 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Olam evolves as challenges mount for agri-traders

Olam Group ended 2024 as the most active borrower of commodity trade finance in the market. It is also undergoing a significant reorganisation with fresh investment from...

27 May 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities

The new opera of trade finance: TXF Amsterdam 2025

The curtain has fallen on TXF Amsterdam 2025, but is there time for one last encore? Check out TXF's opening video from the event as well as a few thoughts on the latest...

22 May 2025

TXF Amsterdam 2025: Session and sentiment analysis

TXF has generated an article using Exile’s AI tool based on the transcripts from the recorded sessions at TXF Amsterdam 2025: Global Natural Resources & Commodities...

09 May 2025

Facing the reality of Trump 2.0

The greatest impact of the second Trump administration is likely to be through its application of tariffs on global trade flows. But its impacts on project pipelines and...

02 May 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Power, Renewables

Corporate perspectives: Export finance in an ‘It is what is’ world, with Wartsila’s Back

Andreas Back, senior manager, financial services, at Finnish energy and marine technology company, Wärtsilä, reflects on ECA-backed projects in the new global macro and...

14 April 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Atishoo: Non-bank trade finance trio catch a cold

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...

04 April 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Traders take on assets as commodity volatility fades

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 –...

21 March 2025
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Metals and Mining

Corporate perspectives: ‘Mine baby, mine’ (responsibly) with NioCorp’s CEO

Mark A Smith, executive chairman and CEO at NioCorp Developments, will use US (and UK and German) export credit agency support to dig for critical minerals in Nebraska....

28 February 2025
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Power

Uzbek CCGTs: Efficiently gassed

As Uzbekistan looks to meet growing gas demand while phasing out inefficient Soviet-era power facilities, a DFI/ECA-backed financing for the 1.6GW Surkhandarya CCGT...

14 February 2025
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Infrastructure

Expert opinion: E/S due diligence in ECA deals – A call for pragmatism

The litany of lengthy environmental and social (E/S) due diligence processes in ECA deals pose significant problems for projects in Africa. Ram Shalita, CEO & Partner at...

11 February 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

The TXF Commodity Trade Finance Industry Report 2024: A sneak peek

The TXF Global Commodity Trade Finance Industry Report 2024 has arrived with qualitative and quantitative insights into industry sentiment. Read on to a find a full...

23 January 2025

Strategic insight: ING’s Rauhala on balancing sweet and sour in structured export finance

In her first interview since taking over as global head of structured export finance at ING, Anna Rauhala discusses finding the right balance between sweet and sour in...

20 December 2024

2024: Export finance trends

TXF have wrapped up the major trends in the export finance market in 2024. There's a few to keep an eye on next year too..