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25 March 2025

Perfect 10: Export Finance Deals of the Year

This year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 weren't only about size, although there were benchmark deals in terms of volume and sectors. They were more symptomatic of the...

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

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...

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...

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...

10 February 2025

OECD courts controversy with end to 95% financing

The OECD has ended a Common Line that increased the maximum available cover on export finance deals to 95%. Critics say that ECAs are abandoning developing market...

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...

17 January 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Transport

EV gigafactory risk: Who's on the hook?

Between 2020 and Q1 2024, 12 EV gigafactory project financings signed globally, according to Exile Intelligence. But amid ongoing financial woes, how much exposure do...

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.

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..

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...

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...

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
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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...

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...