Given the vast Covid-19 relief packages they are putting together, are DFIs really in a position to play a bigger role than usual in planned infrastructure stimulus packages that are being proposed by governments to get the global economy back on track?

Massive potential lies ahead for many African and Asian countries. Find out more by joining the TXF Export Finance Virtual Global Fair and embracing the best networking tools around through TXF’s very own new platform.

The Huemul renewable financing in Chile - the second phase of Mainstream's Andes Renovables portfolio of wind and solar projects - has significant DFI backing despite its earlier sister deal being purely commercially banked. But was that backing a necessity in the Covid-19 economic climate or simply a key support?

TXF talks to CGI’s Rory Kaplan, senior offering manager for trade and supply chain solutions, Patrick DeVilbiss, director of consulting, trade and supply chain solutions and Colin Zeglen, product manager for trade and supply chain solutions for a reality check on digitisation in challenging times.

The younger generation of the export finance community are yet to hold the keys to the ECA manor. And with much of the knowledge and talent in the industry (and deal origination) coming from practitioners with over 30 years’ experience, TXF’s Future of Export Finance (FEX) initiative is more paramount than ever in shifting the industry’s clout from the aging demographic to the next generation.