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14 April 2025

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...

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...

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 –...

31 March 2025

Exiled: Catherine Lang Anderson, A&O

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...

31 March 2025

Sullivan law: Using DFI and ECA guarantees as credit risk mitigants

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...

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...

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
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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...

10 March 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

TXF's Perfect Ten Commodity Finance Deals of the Year

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.

04 March 2025

Drilling into the data: Export finance report 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...

04 March 2025

PEFCO looks for ways to broaden funding - and asset - mix

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...

03 March 2025

Commodity finance report 2024: A year of innovation

Overall commodity finance volumes grew marginally in 2024. But the most significant findings were product innovations, with digitalisation through collaboration,...

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...

21 February 2025
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Metals and Mining

A complete unknown? Trafigura leads the market with innovative eBL financing

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...

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...

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...

07 February 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Podcast: Harding on Trump, tariffs and trade wars

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,...