Hydrogen: The fuel of the future (with heavy subsidy)
Hydrogen projects are ballooning given the stronger focus on energy transition from policymakers and energy majors in the wake of the pandemic. But where’s the level of...
Hydrogen projects are ballooning given the stronger focus on energy transition from policymakers and energy majors in the wake of the pandemic. But where’s the level of...
The ICC Global Export Finance Committee’s Sustainability Working Group (ICC-SWG) is making progress, with a white paper on how the industry aims to fulfil the UN’s...
Tomorrow marks the launch of the annual TXF Export Finance World Fair and the export finance community is all set to come together virtually from all corners of the globe...
Is financing ESG-linked projects and exports going to be limited by what exporters and project financiers cannot do rather than what they can? How can (or should)...
Amid the ongoing litigations and investigations related to Greensill Capital, including the eagerly awaited UK Serious Fraud Office investigation into Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG...
Britain’s departure from the EU after 47 years shocked the country and the world, but it is also unsurprising considering the steadily growing sense of “euroskepticism”...
Since the introduction of the OECD Consensus over forty years ago, the framework has acquired numerous updates - most recently an increase to the local content...
The 2020 edition of TXF Intelligence’s Sustainability in Export Finance report aims to classify and measure closed sustainable export finance deals from last year while...
TXF Research’s CPRI in trade finance report is both timely and extensive, taking a more forensic look at the health of the private insurance market during the pandemic,...
From speedy deal gestations to the calibre of an ECA's product offering, the Export Finance Industry Awards 2021 recognises industry excellence based on the banking and...
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the climate change agenda and 2021 could prove to be a line in the sand for the green economy. Orbian's CEO Tom Dunn and Climate &...
Overall volumes of global commodity trade financing fell by almost 50% according to the full-year 2020 TXF Commodity Finance report. Max Thompson reviews this significant...
South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation is threatening to derail Smile Telecoms restructuring plan, potentially pushing the ailing pan-African telecom company into...
The Global Export Finance Industry Report 2021 found that export finance banks (59%), ECAs (59%), and buyers (54%) were most likely to have some knowledge of Task Force...
Supply chain finance and particularly payables finance is back in the spotlight after the news flow on Greensill. Is this the death knell for the product or is it a case...
TXF takes a first look at the great imponderables that have been raised by the fomenting Greensill Capital saga. What do and don’t we know, what are we only able to...
Robert Deeley, managing director at PolFin, a specialist credit and political risk insurance broker, takes a closer look at the lessons industry practitioners can learn...
ECAs upped their support for big-ticket project financings in Africa last year. And there is room for significant export finance growth with a pipeline of projects set to...
What has Covid meant for ECAs and their ability to attract smaller companies? How are ECAs responding to the needs of these new clients and how are they broadening their...
TXF Research’s Global Export Finance Industry Report 2021 shows that 42% of the ECAs surveyed have unlimited access to CIRR and that 30% plan to increase their direct...
Stefan Reisacher, CEO of EPC contractor Linxon, discusses how to work with ECAs in challenging conditions. Contractors need to improve communications with sub-suppliers - from bidding to investment decisions and beyond.