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08 June 2022
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Closely held cards for CPRI

In a tale of closely held cards, sensitivities and ripple effects, TXF takes a look behind a complicated CPRI market. What’s really happening in the private insurance...

31 May 2022
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Oil & gas, Transport

LNG tankers: A ballooning ECA space?

ECA-backed non-cruise deals accounted for a total deal volume of $5 billion in the shipping sector in 2021. But that figure is expected to rise as the war in Ukraine...

19 January 2022

Getting on with it: Financing international trade in 2022

What will be the key words for financing trade this year? If last year was all about resilience and pivoting will this year be picking yourself up, dusting yourself off,...

06 November 2019

Get Happy? In protectionism there’s still opportunity, survey says

It’s not often nowadays that trade financiers get a positive survey to chew upon. Stuart Nivison digests HSBC’s latest Navigator Survey with TXF. Is the remarkable degree...

29 October 2019

Expert briefing: Blurring the lines between developed and emerging markets

Shailesh Kumar, head of country, credit, and economic research at The Hartford, examines the categorisation of emerging and developed markets and whether it is, or should...

19 July 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

US-China get electric on the auto front

Jonathan Bell, Editor-in-Chief at TXF gives us his take on news that Tesla is to build an EV Gigafactory in Shanghai, as well as a review of TXF's market coverage from...

12 July 2018

Shop talk: IFC wants more DFI-ECA collaboration

For many borrowers ECAs and DFIs can both be ill-fitting pegs in a very deep infrastructure hole, particularly on multi-sourced financings. According to Arun Kumar...

16 February 2016

A changing world: tapping in to trade opportunities

At a BNY Mellon-hosted roundtable in Abu Dhabi, TXF sat down with a number of UAE banks to discuss the region’s economic developments, the evolving trade arena, and how...

17 June 2015

Dalma Energy secures financing for oil rigs through Bank Sohar and QNB

Oman-based drilling rig operator Dalma Energy International has secured a $77.5 million financing arranged by Bank Sohar and Qatar National Bank (QNB).

19 June 2014

ICC Trade Register Report 2014 provides robust data to benefit global trade

Today, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released its Trade Register Report 2014. The empirical evidence from the report points to the fact that trade and...

01 May 2014

Collaboration between ECAs and development banks

Export credit agencies (ECAs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) have very different purposes, mandates and in the case of multilateral institutions, ownership...

18 February 2014

IFC arranges loan for Myanmar Oriental Bank under GTFP

The IFC is providing a $5 million trade finance facility to Myanmar Oriental Bank (MOB) that will allow the bank to help local companies increase their imports and...

17 January 2014

State Bank of India signs credit line with Kexim

The State Bank of India (SBI) has signed a $200 million loan agreement with the Export- Import Bank of Korea (Kexim).

29 October 2013

StanChart completes transaction under URBPO

Standard Chartered (StanChart) announced today that it has completed a trade finance transaction with the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) under the Uniform Rules for BPO...

11 September 2013

Global heads interview – Standard Chartered Bank

TXF talks to Standard Chartered Bank about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.