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22 June 2018

TXF Commodities Amsterdam 2018: Deutsche says watch out for China's BRI

In:

Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Transport

Region:

Middle East & Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe

Frank Wu, regional head of structured commodity trade finance, Asia Pacific at Deutsche Bank, talks about China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI), synchronised global economic growth and what this means for the commodity finance market.

Asia export finance: More grey than green

Perspective

07 August 2026

Asia export finance: More grey than green

Asia’s export finance market is open and institutionally committed — but quieter on volume, stricter on content, and leaning on LNG and strategic supply chains rather than a...

Perspective

14 August 2026

ECA volumes cruise well in H1

With a total aggregated debt volume of $70.8 billion in the first half this year, ECA activity was solid but not necessarily in the sectors it needs to be to realise the race...

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Wartsila: ECAs need to up emerging market risk

22 July 2026

TXF spoke with Andreas Back, Product Security Development Manager at Wartsila to outline the major challenges and opportunities for major EPCs tapping ECA support, as well as the need for ECA to take on more risk in emerging markets.