Despite a sluggish 2016 in which Asian transaction activity was down on 2015, Paul Richards, global head of export finance at ANZ, is optimistic. The bank has already...

Developers under Egypt’s FiT Round 2 programme are racing to secure international debt for solar power tenders by the end of the April. With revisions to key issues that...

Export finance volumes recovered in 2016. The Middle East accounted for a third of the total ECA market, power was the most popular industry for ECA-backed deals, and...

Under recent amendments to the OECD Arrangement on Export Credits, Minimum Premium Rates for cover on transactions involving high income countries were redefined. The...

Around 15% of the global population are disabled. Of those, approximately 80% live in developing countries and 150 million are children. TXF caught up with Jane Anthony,...

Turkey and Mexico have each seen their share of world trade soar in the past two decades. The challenge now is to continue that dynamic growth in the years ahead - growth...

The $2.1 billion 554MW shale oil-fired Attarat Power project in Jordan reached financial close last week backed by Chinese banks and Sinosure cover. Is this the beginning...

Russian borrowers are pushing for margin tightening on a number of current pre-export refinancings. With bank appetite for Russian investment grade credits on the up, and...

Société Générale has arranged a $227 million partially K-sure-backed facility with the state-owned Oman Shipping Company. The underwritten deal is indicative of strong...

Credit Agricole has closed a $3 billion synthetic securitisation to free up cash for green project loans. And unlike vanilla green bonds, this deal could indirectly...

JBIC and commercial banks, with NEXI cover, are co-financing $3.35 billion of debt to fund a 2GW expansion of the 2.64GW Tanjung Jati B coal-fired power plant in...

The trade and commodity finance community has its say on the biggest issues in the market in our annual audience survey at TXF's Trade, Treasury and Commodity conference...

With US wind tax credits (PTC) being cut 20% year-on-year until 2019, the turbine loan market was expected to make a comeback. A trio of wind turbine loans under full PTC...

Jonathan Bell talks with Anthony Palmer about his 41 years in the credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) market, the key events that have shaped its development, and...

Last month energy company Woodside tapped a favourably priced $100 million EKN loan, guaranteed by GIEK and DNB, for the supply of subsea equipment to the offshore...

Two years of tight regional bank liquidity and even tighter government budgets forced many Middle East state-owned borrowers into the ECA-backed and pre-export loan...

TXF is returning to Amsterdam for a fourth show - and it's going to be better than ever! Book now for the marquee conference will incorporate two great...

Symptomatic of a political and trade credit insurance market with too many players chasing too little business, insurance underwriter Hiscox is pulling its trade finance...

Last month Acwa Power and Taekwang Power mandated banks for the $4 billion 1.2GW Nam Dinh 1 coal-fired power project in Vietnam, with the deal expected to close in two...

Acwa Power is weeks away from financial close on a bilaterally negotiated 18-year DFI-backed financing for the 61.3MW solar scheme at Risha in Jordan.