Mustafa Kilic, CFO at Groupe SEB, Turkey sat down with TXF’s Katharine Morton in Istanbul and talked about how a strategy of maximising local inputs can help manage currency risk through natural hedges, and even help guard against the burgeoning trade wars.

TXF caught up with Fatick Hussain, finance director at Salalah Methanol, to discuss the Omani government’s push for infra projects, how the sultanate’s oil and gas sector is set for significant growth, and why ECAs need to take a more collaborative approach to large-scale project financings.

For many borrowers ECAs and DFIs can both be ill-fitting pegs in a very deep infrastructure hole, particularly on multi-sourced financings. According to Arun Kumar Sharma, CIO of Global Financial Markets at the IFC, the way forward is better ECA and DFI collaboration – but how?

TXF's head of trade, treasury and risk Katharine Morton mulls the implications of the accelerating trade wars on the fundamentals of relationships between global powers.

With a number of green energy proposals in the pipeline, TXF caught up with Kutoane Kutoane, CEO at ECIC, to discuss the South African ECA’s plan to catch the renewables train and how ECA-DFI cooperation is laying a seedbed for commercial banks, and key to getting complex, multi-billion deals across the line on the continent.