Daniel Schmand, Deutsche Bank’s EMEA head of trade finance & cash management corporates, was elected the new chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC)...
Inaugurating its recent financing agreement with US multinational industrial conglomerate General Electric (GE), Britain's export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF)...
A lot can happen in 12 months. But don’t take our word for it, just ask those in the export finance industry who have set themselves – or been set – on new career paths...
Global energy and commodities group Mercuria Energy has signed its Asian revolving credit facility (RCF) for a total amount of $1.1 billion. General syndication saw a...
At the Berne Union - the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers - and Prague Club annual general meeting this week in Shanghai - hosted by China’s official...
The export finance community in Asia was, as ever, bullish on growth forecasts for the year ahead. A poll of delegates taken at the TXF Asia Export and Agency Finance...
Helen Castell at TXF talks to Bob Kowit, a member of the trade finance team at Federated Investors, about the challenges involved in creating a pool of trade finance...
Daniel Riordan reviews the risks facing insurers in 2015 and highlights how the Berne Union is adapting to help its members
Berne Union: Totals
Berne Union: Short-Term Export Credit Insurance
Berne Union: Medium/Long-Term Export Credit Insurance and Lending
Berne Union: Investment Insurance
Volumes of export credit and investment insurance reported for 2014 by members of the Berne Union and Prague Club increased by 4% to reach a total amount of $2 trillion.
Michal Ron, managing director, head of international business, SACE, argues that knowledge-sharing and cooperation in the export finance industry is a quick-fire way of...
Ralph Lerch, chair of the European Banking Federation’s export credit working group, and global head of export finance at Commerzbank, discusses the shifting tectonics of...
As part of the 2015 Berne Union and Prague Club Spring Meeting held in Florence, Italy, and hosted by SACE, a CEO panel was held to discuss members’ various perspectives...
Last year, the Berne Union provided an update on how its members have worked with small and medium-sized exporters (SMEs) given their important roles in supporting...
Sinosure's chairman, Wang Yi, describes how the world’s largest ECA has changed both procedures and structure as it undergoes rapid growth.
If we think about academic research, we often think about theory development and testing with no or little concern for impact on the real world. We sometimes believe that...
In the years following the 2007-08 financial crisis, UK Export Finance (UKEF) watched the increased use of direct lending schemes by ECAs with interest.
The Future of Export Finance initiative recently held its annual exporter meeting in Heidenheim. This year, the technology company Voith played host to FEX's German chapter. As always, the event was aimed at fostering closer ties between export finance professionals and debating the latest industry trends.
How do you have a thriving offshore wind export business when you don’t, technically, have an offshore wind industry? Norway’s exporters are finding the answer, and of Norway’s green exports, offshore wind is by far the largest supported by Eksfin. Tone Lunde Bakker, CEO of Eksfin discusses how the restructured agency has been helping support the pivot away from fossil fuels, into wind, marine, onshore aquaculture, to name a few.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
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Join us on a mythical adventure through all things export, agency & project finance as TXF Global 2024 travels to the historic city of Athens for the first time!
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