Exiled: Ayodeji Olaifa, KfW IPEX Bank
Today’s Exile is Ayodeji (DJ) Olaifa, Vice President, Senior Business Development Officer at KfW IPEX Bank. A seasoned financier, storyteller, and self-professed...
Today’s Exile is Ayodeji (DJ) Olaifa, Vice President, Senior Business Development Officer at KfW IPEX Bank. A seasoned financier, storyteller, and self-professed...
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...
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 –...
Welcome to Exiled: The Real Assets People, a podcast where we ‘strand’ a guest on a desert island and ask them who from their professional past, present, and future...
In this trade & export finance webinar, Mark Norris, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, look at best practice for effectively structuring ECA and DFI guarantees and...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
The wait for the winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Commodity Finance Deals of the Year is over. Read on to find the landmark deals of 2024.
The solid performance of the export finance market in 2024 was mostly driven by the stronger focus on new technologies and the broadening ECA mandate. The news bodes well...
The public-private funding vehicle for US Exim loans - PEFCO - has completed a debut issue in Euros. And it is also - in the name of improved resilience - looking to add...
Overall commodity finance volumes grew marginally in 2024. But the most significant findings were product innovations, with digitalisation through collaboration,...
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...
In October 2024 Trafigura closed a $2.8 billion borrowing base – the first in the syndicated market to use electronic bills of lading as collateral. How did the trader...
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...
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...
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...
TXF spoke with Dr. Rebecca Harding, an independent trade economist and founder of strategic advisory business, Rebeccanomics to discuss how Trump’s renewed trade wars,...
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 – across financing, business lines and investments.