Against the backdrop of increasing risk awareness and an evolving regulatory landscape – Basel IV and PRA changes – Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle, head of supply chain and trade finance at AIG, talks to TXF about the growing cost benefits to lenders of using private insurance and product standardisation.

Two recent European offshore wind financings – Borssele III and IV and Hornsea 1 – demonstrated growing bank and institutional investor appetite for two different sets of offshore wind risk. Although very different deals, do they both hint at the shape of future European offshore wind funding in a zero-subsidy market?

According to 167 capital equipment exporters surveyed by TXF and Clevis Research, EDC was top performing ECA In 2017. But much of the competition was poor, with many ECAs failing to live up to their performances of the previous two years.

Ramon Tolk, senior director, treasury at specialty packaging company Avery Dennison’s European Treasury Centre in the Netherlands, talks to TXF about cross border pooling structures and intercompany lending. How can treasury respond to the potentially beneficial changes in US tax regulation and create US/EMEA cross border pooling?

Potential changes to PRA regulations, IFRS accounting standards and sovereign risk exposures, mean the trade credit insurance landscape will have to evolve. Gary Lowe, head of the credit insurance desk at Standard Chartered, gives his take on these regulatory constraints and what trade credit insurance in a post-Brexit world will look like.