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24 May 2024

Hoping for clear skies for transition, innovation, cyber and geopolitics, at BU Oslo

At the Berne Union’s flagship spring meeting in Norway, enthusiasm over opportunities for ECAs on climate and energy transition, technology and innovation, were balanced...

15 March 2024

The right tool for the job: BU celebrates 90 years of supporting trade and investment

It may be younger than the Swiss Army knife, but the Berne Union’s stakeholder event reflects on how adept the nonagenarian organisation is at helping support financing...

31 July 2019

Pit bull or pit bear?

The problems at the Oyu Tolgoi mining project in Mongolia mean the sponsors, Rio Tinto via its ownership of Turquoise Hill Resources, will have to raise $1 billion-plus...

22 July 2019

TXF Global: Bpifrance on modernising export finance

At TXF Global last month, Maelia Dufour, head of international relations at Bpifrance Export Insurance, outlined the challenges of digitisation in export finance,...

08 August 2018
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China-US trade punches

Last week's announcement that China plans to impose tariffs on up to $60 billion worth of US goods points to a heating up of the trade war between the two countries....

03 August 2018

TXF Global: Bpifrance's one-stop-shop SME success

TXF spoke with Bpifrance's global head and head of export finance, Pedro Novo and Maelia Dufour, to find how successful the Coface-Bpifrance transfer has been and whether...

28 October 2017

52,000 entrepreneurs attend Bpifrance Inno Generation

Bpifrance tells TXF about the 5th edition of Bpifrance Inno Generation took place on 10 October, 2019 in Paris.

06 October 2016

The Bpifrance-Coface transfer explained

On 1 January 2017 the French export credit agency (ECA), Coface, will officially transfer all its activity to Bpifrance. Since 1946 Coface has handled state export credit...

09 July 2014

Syfaah system to be rolled out in LatAm and Africa

Haiti has found itself at the forefront of agricultural microfinance with an initiative that is shaking up misconceptions about the bankability of smallholder famers and...

10 June 2014

Paris exporters roundtable

After the success of the first roundtable last November in Paris, the day before ECA/DFI Finance in 2014, Henri D’Ambrieres and Maelia Dufour hosted a second roundtable...

18 February 2014

Bpifrance to launch financing mechanism to support SME exports

Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, has announced a new funding mechanism aimed primarily at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help French businesses...