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20 May 2024

Keynote: UKEF’s CEO Reid looks through new lenses for exporters

In advance of his appearance at TXF Global in Athens, Tim Reid, CEO of UK Export Finance, discusses the lenses through which the ECA will define the success of its new...

17 May 2024
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Oil & gas

Mozambique LNG: When will funds be disbursed?

The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest...

13 May 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Ten years of TXF Amsterdam

This year TXF is celebrating a decade of change at the tenth edition of the Amsterdam Global Commodity Finance event. Read on to find our thoughts on a few of the trends...

07 May 2024

FEX 2024: Meeting the exporters

The Future of Export Finance initiative recently held its annual exporter meeting in Heidenheim. This year, the technology company Voith played host to FEX's German...

22 April 2024
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Other, Renewables, Transport

Keynote: Eksfin’s CEO on the answers blowing in the wind

How do you have a thriving offshore wind export business when you don’t, technically, have an offshore wind industry? Norway’s exporters are finding the answer, and of...

19 April 2024

Is ECA debt now part of the trader funding furniture?

Since the first announcement of a partnership between Euler Hermes and Trafigura in 2022, European ECAs have built steady relationships with commodity traders. Today, as...

15 April 2024

TXF Perfect 10 Commodity Finance

The wait for the winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Commodity Finance Deals of the Year is over. Here are the landmark deals of 2023.

28 March 2024
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Power

The gap becomes a chasm as ECAs chase developed markets

ECA volumes into developing markets continue to lag far behind developed markets despite a record-breaking year for export finance. Reforms to the OECD Arrangement could...

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...

01 March 2024

ECA league tables 2023: Pushing the envelope

With the recent release of TXF Intelligence’s export finance lender league tables, get the breakdown on the most active ECAs in the market. Read on to find out the...

12 February 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment

Northvolt: A test case in Euro gigafactory bankability

Northvolt’s latest big-ticket ECA-backed financing has set a benchmark for European gigafactory deals. But can Europe’s green industrial policy keep up with the pace of...

02 February 2024

How do you fix overpriced macro risk premiums?

DFI support mechanisms have tended to focus on the project-specific micro premium in cost of capital. But a report for the Climate Policy Initiative by Avinash Persaud...

26 January 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Power, Renewables

2024: A leap too far for another ECA debt record?

After a record-breaking year, ECAs must face the challenge of ensuring that activity remains strong in 2024. Demand for low-cost financing is high in the current interest...

19 January 2024
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Power, Renewables

Is Mexico about to turn the private sector project pipeline on again?

With President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) set to depart office in June, private sector appetite for Mexican projects is already beginning to make a comeback.

12 January 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Rising challenges demand vigilance as commodity finance enters 2024

As the commodity finance industry enters 2024, TXF takes a look at the results of its industry research report to assess the biggest challenges and trends facing traders...

10 January 2024
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Renewables

High hopes for hydrogen: Climbing the ladder to bankability

Dr Sebastian Hofert von Weiss and Patrick Gonzalez Tilemann (University of Surrey) share their latest research on the challenges facing hydrogen production. Financial and...

08 January 2024
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Other

All quiet on the financing front: Korea seeks support for defence deals

A major set of defence contracts between Korea and Poland is set to be renewed after successful collaboration in 2022. However, Kexim’s lending limits pose an obstacle...

05 January 2024
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Metals and Mining

Argentinian lithium mine progresses financing

The ECA-covered loan backing Lake Resources’ Kachi lithium project in Argentina is due to close in Q1 2025 and will mark UKEF’s first project in the South American...

15 December 2023

OECD officially extends 95% export finance coverage

The news the OECD has officially extended a Common Line agreement allowing ECAs to offer 95% coverage on export contracts is a boon for the export finance community — but...

08 December 2023
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Renewables

US offshore wind: There's trouble at mill

Hiccups or long-term project stasis – can the US offshore wind market overcome the cost increases dogging its troubled birth?