China’s president, Xi Jinping, pledged $60 billion in 2018 for African development over the next three years. But will the Covid-19 pandemic and global economic downturn...
Supply chain finance can be a great tool for keeping funding flowing to all parts of the supply chain, but is there an existential strain on programmes from the...
Steven Beck, head of trade and supply chain finance at ADB talks to TXF from lockdown Manila about how ADB is supercharging its existing trade finance programs to keep...
TXF spoke with Kai Preugschat, Asia Pacific director at Recovery Advisers, based in Singapore, to outline his role at the international dispute resolution law firm that...
Winning TXF’s Most Innovative Commodities Finance Deal of the Year Award, Trailstone’s €150 million 2019 borrowing base marked a flurry of firsts for the commodity trade...
Overall volumes of global commodity finance fell by 16% in 2019 compared to 2018, according to the full-year TXF 2019 Commodity Finance Report, while structured commodity...
Linde’s head of export and project finance, Gernot Bruch says international banks are no longer seeing his transactions as a ‘necessary evil’. There are other necessary...
In the first edition of TXF’s new Deal in Spotlight feature, we caught up with LBBW, the sole lender on the 33MW Huong Linh 1 onshore wind farm in Vietnam, to find out...
Overall volumes of global export finance fell by almost 30% last year compared to 2018 according to the full-year TXF 2019 Export Finance Report. Max Thompson reviews the...
The Taiwanese offshore wind market is on course to emulate another bumper year of ECA-backed project finance prowess in 2020. But not all is as it seems on this nascent...
TXF spoke to Gautier Mangenot, VP of business development at Entrepose Group, a subsidiary of Vinci, about the challenges mid-sized EPCs face facilitating infrastructure...
BNDES’ heavy involvement in the GNA II liquefied natural gas (LNG)-to-power project funding mix contrasts its bid to leave more room for private investors in large-scale...
Indonesia’s state-owned power utility PLN has yet to close a single power project financing in 2019 amid a year of economic slowdown and elections. However, Teguh...
The renaissance in North Sea oil field M&As is being driven by new flows of capital and RBL lenders backing mid-cap oil companies acquiring assets from majors’ divesting...
TXF has opened voting for its Perfect 10 Deal of the Year Awards 2019. Please cast your vote on tagmydeals.com to have your say on this year’s most landmark export and...
On the sidelines of VTB’s RUSSIA CALLING! event in Moscow last month, Igor Ostreyko, managing director of trade and export finance at VTB and Anna Ponomareva, head of ECA...
Commodity traders have always been customers to portfolio players in the LNG space. However, as traders up the signing of long-term offtake contracts, portfolio players...
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) pulled in record low tariff offers this month for its latest 900MW solar PV scheme – DEWA V. But there was no promise from...
US Exim’s full reauthorisation was expected at the end of last month as glimmers of bipartisan support returned to the US ECA. But now big ticket business is under threat...
TXF’s debut Sustainable Deals H1 2019 report partnered with Acre Impact Capital to help provide a comprehensive methodology and classify sustainable deals in the ECA...
The record surge in export finance volumes in 2023 was not just driven by existing banks writing larger tickets. TXF looks at the new lenders in export finance, and the regions, assets, and ECAs that drew them in, as well as what opportunities and dynamics this might create in the market.
EET Fuels is leading the development of a major UK hydrogen cluster around its Stanlow refinery operations. The company has put its decarbonisation plans firmly behind alternative fuels as it looks to diversify its operations from traditional oil & gas assets.
Edna Schoene, CEO of Euler Hermes, naturally chose the eponymous messenger Hermes as her legendary figure of choice when TXF spoke to her at Global 2024: Export, Project & Development Finance in Athens. But the discussion of the German ECA’s new transformational strategy was anything but mythological – faster, yes, but also leaner, greener, and better, will be the new watchwords. How will it be delivered?
US Exim has released its annual competitiveness report, and the story is familiar. While progress has been made in dealmaking since its 2019 reauthorisation, Exim remains a conservative ECA in comparison with the most active players in the market.
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