TXF finds Mairead Lavery full of vigour and enthusiasm about her first year as president and CEO of EDC in advance of her first performance review with the chair of the board. Her energies are devoted to promoting Canadian exporting companies on a path to sustainability, inclusion and diversity. Is she concerned about EDC’s perception as being more a bank than a traditional ECA? Not a bit of it. What about local content requirements? Competition with other ECAs? It’s a question of philosophy.

Anglo American agreed a £405 million ($527 million) rescue deal with Sirius Minerals this week. The takeover is a lifeline for the fertiliser producer which risked collapse amid pressure to find alternative funding for its struggling Woodsmith polyhalite mining project in the UK. But for Anglo, analysts are left wondering ‘why?’

At long last US Exim has got the mandate that US exporters have been crying out for. But, asks Jonathan Bell, will the recent events in Iraq and the troubles with Iran spill over and impact US export activity in Middle East markets?

At TXF's PRI conference last month, Pierre Vergnes, head of institutional financing at Fonroche Lighting, explains why the off-grid solar manufacturer taps ECA support over the private market when looking for insurance in challenging high-risk countries.

In the latest episode of TXF’s export finance podcast series, Dominik Kloiber, co-founder at TXF spoke to three senior export finance practitioners to discuss the seminal but growing trend of sustainability in ECA finance.