Commodity finance: How can the ‘S’ in ESG be measured?
There’s been a lot of doubt around whether the ‘S’ in ‘ESG’ can be tangibly, efficiently, and inexpensively measured. But with ES³G’s social scoring app piloting in the...
There’s been a lot of doubt around whether the ‘S’ in ‘ESG’ can be tangibly, efficiently, and inexpensively measured. But with ES³G’s social scoring app piloting in the...
TXF spoke with Peder Lundquist, CEO at EKF to outline how Denmark's ECA plans to further bake ESG credentials into its portfolio as it ups support for the green...
Blockchain was heralded and hyped as a great hope for SMEs accessing trade finance. Now, with a couple of failures of prominent solutions, questions are being asked....
It’s an interesting time to be setting up a new export-oriented development financial institution, but Irfan Bukhari, President, and CEO of EXIM Bank of Pakistan is brim...
ECA support is integral to getting several large-scale carbon-intensive projects across the financial line in sub-Saharan Africa this year, with social infra schemes also...
Evolution of support - including payment holidays, waivers and concessions - provided by ECAs has been key to the recovery, and return to growth, of the aviation sector...
TXF spoke with Franziscka Brantner, parliamentary state secretary in the federal ministry for economic affairs and climate action of the Green Party in Germany, to find...
Last month over 60 delegates at TXF’s Global Commodity Finance event in Amsterdam were quizzed on the major trends impacting the market. Here’s what they said.
TXF caught up with Marion Jansen, director of the trade and agriculture directorate at the OECD to discuss where the Consensus on export credit can be further reformed,...
We take a quick look at some of the top takeaways from the biggest gathering of the export and project finance community in the world, TXF Global Export, Agency and...
There is a raft of different metrics to measure sustainability and the SDGs - LMA green loans, equator principles, ICMA bond principles and EU taxonomy, to name a few....
The global project finance market looks set to replace one forward-looking dollar benchmark interest rate with another. Is Term SOFR effectively USD Libor with a new lick...
Deals of the Year – the TXF Perfect 10 – are a time for celebration! Here, we reveal the winners of the Export Finance Deals of the Year, for transactions signed in 2021....
On the sidelines of the IfTI Trade Symposium at Offenburg University last month, TXF spoke with Astrid Bronswijk, head of export finance and investment guarantees at the...
Growth of metals and rare earths mining is crucial to building out the renewables infrastructure required to meet the Paris climate goals. But short-termism and liquidity...
In a tale of closely held cards, sensitivities and ripple effects, TXF takes a look behind a complicated CPRI market. What’s really happening in the private insurance...
In the push to decarbonisation and achieving greater sustainability, the metals and mining sector is very much in the spotlight. Many of the challenges are uphill and...
ECA-backed non-cruise deals accounted for a total deal volume of $5 billion in the shipping sector in 2021. But that figure is expected to rise as the war in Ukraine...
Ben Heaney, CEO of credit insurance e-trading platform Dialogue, shines the spotlight on the progress of digitally transforming the insurance side of the credit insurance...
Although there is no widely accepted definition of just transition, the agenda is gaining popularity among DFIs, MDBs and impact investors, particularly in the emerging...
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.