FintechWeek ‘16: London “undisputably the fintech capital of the world”
Over the coming days, FintechWeek teases out the new challenges facing the fintech industry as anxieties over London’s role as a financial centre take shape.
Over the coming days, FintechWeek teases out the new challenges facing the fintech industry as anxieties over London’s role as a financial centre take shape.
TXF has joined forces with YellowWood Adventures to afford TXF subscribers discounted rates for adventure travel tours through Ethiopia’s iconic mountain ranges.
Despite TXF's figures showing over half the amount of ECA-backed deals in Asia in H1 of 2016 compared to H1 2015, one Asian export finance specialist tells TXF how the...
As millions of UK citizens queued up at polling stations the length and breadth of the country, Ollie Gordon talked to trade economists, business associations, and...
China Eximbank is advancing a $500 million loan to Ethiopia towards the construction of an industrial park in Adama, in the latest rapprochement between the two...
GME, Central America's leading wind energy company, has tapped three international development agencies, FMO, Proparco, and OeEB for $149 million in long-term financing...
The total number of ECA deals taking place in the first quarter of 2016 has more than halved compared to Q1 of 2015, while deal volume is down 12%. TXF's Q1 data clearly...
Blockchain research banking consortium R3CEV is a focal point for the exploration of distributed ledger technology and its potential applications to trade finance. Its...
Trafigura showcased traders’ ability to gain in volatile markets, as it secured its flagship $2 billion refined metals borrowing base with 16 banks.
Global commodities trader Castleton Commodities International tapped 25 banks for a borrowing base and revolving credit facility totalling $3.75 billion, to finance its...
Seaborn Networks secured an innovative project financing to fund the establishment of high-speed telecommunications infrastructure between US and Brazil.
Leading fintech directors and analysts at a roundtable last week said the fintech space is a bubble and a shake-out is to be expected.
SUEK has secured a $1 billion pre-export finance facility showing Russian commodity producers buoyed by a cheap ruble can still access international financing despite...
In the last 18 months it has become increasingly common to note that the supply of infrastructure projects isn’t strong enough to keep pace with debt market liquidity....
Kazakhstan’s state-owned KazMunaiGas is closing a $3 billion prepayment deal with commodities trader Vitol for crude shipments, in an effort to increase liquidity in...
The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim) last month signed a $150 million line of credit with Iran's Bank of Industry and Mine to finance rail upgrades in Iran. The...
Hong Kong-based commodities trader Noble Group is in talks to refinance a $1 billion revolving credit facility. If pricing on the new loan does triple, as reports...
TXF‘s Judith Fagelson catches up with a couple of BAML’s short-term trade gurus to discuss how the industry has changed following the infamous events of 2008.
International banks are showing renewed interest in investments in Nigeria’s oil sector, as the new management of state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
Equant Analytics has calculated that global trade is $2.1 trillion higher than the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) official figures. TXF speaks with Equant's co-founders...
In this trade & export finance webinar, Mark Norris, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, examine the continued rise of social and governance issues looking at the impact of human rights in ESG financing, with a focus on the UN Standards of Conduct for Business Tackling Discrimination against LGBT+ people, “green grabbing” and the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure.