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07 April 2025

Exiled: Marlon Smith, JLC Infrastructure

Today’s Exile is Marlon Smith, Managing Partner at JLC Infrastructure. As well as heading up Magic Johnson’s infrastructure fund, Marlon is a keen musician and propounder...

28 March 2025
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Other, Renewables, Transport

Never write off Türkiye

Türkiye is the rising star of the export finance community as a source of demand and as a home for internationally renowned EPC contractors. A surge in activity has...

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....

14 March 2025
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Renewables

20 mins with: Orsted meets EIFO

TXF spoke with Orsted's Peter Highmore, senior vice president, head of partnerships and M&A and EIFO's Kurt Martin Larsen, managing director for transactions and global...

14 March 2025

Striking a balance: BU and ICC convene workshop to boost sustainability in export finance

In February the Berne Union and the ICC convened a meeting of export finance practitioners to discuss the future of sustainability in the industry. The key message? A...

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...

31 January 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Other, Transport

Corporate perspectives: Embraer’s Piorino on flying higher with its ECA finance footprint

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...

10 January 2025
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Oil & gas

Non-banks or none at all? Alternative financing steps up

The commodity finance industry's well-documented flight to size has left trading houses stranded. Alternative financiers have struggled to fill the gap, but could a new...

03 January 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Commodity finance in 2024: A retrospective

TXF presents its top trends in commodity finance from 2024 – as well as a few ones to watch out for in 2025.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

17 September 2024

TXF Asia 2024 attendees: Credit where it's due

The list of companies attending TXF Asia 2024 comprises a diverse pool of practitioners from across the export, development and project finance space. There is no gulf in...

06 September 2024
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Metals and Mining

If I had a nickel

ECAs, DFIs and banks to Madagascar’s Ambatovy nickel mine project financing are facing a wipe out of $1.66 billion loans under a new shareholder restructuring proposal....

30 August 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Commodity finance H1 2024: Are smaller tickets a cause for optimism?

TXF’s H1 2024 Commodity Finance Data Report brings some positive news for the industry. While headline volumes have fallen, the total number of deals is up – are lenders...

08 August 2024
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power

Ukraine in 2024: ECA support falls behind the curve

Ukraine’s infrastructure funding gap now sits at around $486 billion, according to figures from the World Bank. With no signs of a cessation in hostilities, what...

05 August 2024

Strategic insight: SocGen’s Camilli on navigating the overlap of export, project and development finance for sustainability

In the first of a new series, TXF looks at the way different financial institutions are approaching the crossovers between export, project and development finance in...