Shopping lines credits are emerging as a key evolution in export finance. The tailored and flexible product is bound by procurement commitments unlike rigid buyer credits...

Europe drove overall export finance growth in 2025. But ECAs look set to up support to emerging markets.

Afreximbank has signed on fresh financing for Nigeria’s oil & gas industry at a moment of crisis for the global energy business. The conflict in the Gulf has further...

Untied export finance volumes dropped significantly in 2025 compared to recent years despite a vintage year for ECA business. Is the fall in activity anomalous, cyclical,...

Laura Galvin, JP Morgan’s new head of export and agency finance, talks to TXF about her priorities in a changing market, particularly amid the bank’s own $1.5 trillion...

Todd Winterhalt, senior vice-president of international markets at Export Development Canada (EDC), discusses EDC’s role in Canada’s market diversification at Berne...

At ITFA's annual trade finance event, this year in Singapore, TXF's Katharine Morton hears whether trade finance is likely be one of the things that gain from disorder.

TXF's commodities data suggests that 2025 is expected to see modest growth with bigger deals going to top borrowers, ongoing regional shifts, and continued trader...

A new agreement between Trafigura and Korea’s public gas company will deliver a decade of LNG imports to Korean companies. It is another sign of Korea’s efforts to...

West African cocoa production has been in decline amid poor yields and falling demand. But the Africa Cocoa Exchange aims to return cocoa pricing power to Africa, improve...

TXF spoke with Preslav Raykov, global head of trading at Eleen Marine about the importance of risk controls in the present geopolitical environment as well as strategies...

Ralf Schwarzhaupt, CEO, managing partner at Jebsen & Jessen Industrial Solutions, cautions that global uncertainty is making investors shy away from long term decisions....

Hrvoje Čuvalo, President of the Management Board of the Croatian Bank of Reconstruction and Development, HBOR, and host of the Berne Union’s Spring Meeting in Dubrovnik,...

Equinor and Polenergia have closed a landmark project financing for Baltyk 2&3 amid a flurry of activity in the offshore wind sector. Poland has big ambitions to...

In this three part series, Exile Group CEO Dan Sheriff speaks to Gabriel Buck, Founder & Managing Director, GKB Ventures and Chris Leeds, Senior Consultant at UKEF, on...

TXF spoke with Hiroke Sekine, managing executive officer, global head of infrastructure and environment finance group at JBIC to discuss how the Japanese ECA is...

The walled city of Dubrovnik is a fitting setting to a resilience-themed Berne Union Spring meeting hosted by HBOR, Croatia’s export credit agency. TXF spoke to Yuichiro...

The greatest impact of the second Trump administration is likely to be through its application of tariffs on global trade flows. But its impacts on project pipelines and...

Andreas Back, senior manager, financial services, at Finnish energy and marine technology company, Wärtsilä, reflects on ECA-backed projects in the new global macro and...

Commodity traders reaped substantial profits off the back of market volatility in 2022 and 2023. With their war chests armed, they pursued a policy of diversification –...