TXF spoke with Dominique Meesen, Berne Union’s medium/long-term (MLT) committee chair, head of reinsurance at Credendo, and vice-chair Andrew Underwood, also chief underwriting officer at AXA XL to discuss the resilience of the MLT private insurance market, the importance of collaboration between ECAs and private insurers, as well as fostering more visible data exchanges between BU members.

TXF caught up with the Berne Union’s new ECA committee chair Isabel Galdiz (US Exim), vice-chair Yuichiro Akita (NEXI), and Berne Union ECA committee manager Didem Bayseferogullari, to discuss evolution of the role of the Berne Union and what the future holds for the ECA sector in a post-pandemic world.

The approximately NT$75 billion ($2.67 billion) non-recourse multi-tranche holdco financing backing the acquisition of CDPQ and Cathay Private Equity’s 50% interest in Orsted’s Changhua 1 offshore wind project marks the first use of Orsted's farm-down strategy in Asia Pacific.

TXF’s top takeaways from the biggest gathering of the export and project finance community in the world, TXF Global 2021, are here.

TXF spoke with Massimo Falcioni, CEO at Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), to discuss Expo 2020 in Dubai, cooperation agreements, the export finance market in the Middle East, the transition to net zero, and the evolving product suite offered by the UAE’s burgeoning ECA.