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In the leafy month of June: A blockchain yikes for bank financing of SME trade?Blockchain was heralded and hyped as a great hope for SMEs accessing trade finance. Now, with a couple of failures of prominent solutions, questions are being asked. Wagons have circled, but will there be wider implications of the We.trade and Serai wind-ups on bank and non-bank finance for trade, and are there bigger long-term problems for financing trade?READ MORE
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On the road to lift off with Pakistan’s new EXIM BankIt’s an interesting time to be setting up a new export-oriented development financial institution, but Irfan Bukhari, President, and CEO of EXIM Bank of Pakistan is brim full of enthusiasm about the opportunity and his journeyREAD MORE
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Africa: A ballooning ECA debt spaceECA support is integral to getting several large-scale carbon-intensive projects across the financial line in sub-Saharan Africa this year, with social infra schemes also high on the financing agenda of agencies active on the continent.READ MORE
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Aviation volumes take off as ECAs up offeringsEvolution of support - including payment holidays, waivers and concessions - provided by ECAs has been key to the recovery, and return to growth, of the aviation sector in 2021, with deal volumes the highest they have been over the past four years.READ MORE
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IfTI: Germany on pushing green tech exportsTXF spoke with Franziscka Brantner, parliamentary state secretary in the federal ministry for economic affairs and climate action of the Green Party in Germany, to find out what new incentives and initiatives her party are rolling out for exporters to push green tech overseas.READ MORE
IfTI: Jansen on reforming OECD Consensus
TXF caught up with Marion Jansen, director of the trade and agriculture directorate at the OECD to discuss where the Consensus on export credit can be further reformed, with a particular need for longer tenors, greater flexibility and updated sector agreements.