From JBIC ranking as the most active ECA in 2018 to another good year for ECA-backed shipping, TXF digests and analyses the most prevalent trends from our global export...

Hybrid renewable and battery storage system projects have been proven bankable following the first non-recourse deal in 2018, and the deal pipeline is expected to grow....

Commodity trade finance was conservatively tapped by traders and producers in the Americas last year. According to TXF Data, deal flow totalled $56.07 billion in 2018...

Export finance deal volume increased marginally across the Americas from 2018 to 2019. According to TXF Data, ECA deal volume totalled $18.6 billion in 2019, compared...

Liberty House’s recent Aluminium Dunkerque deal is both its first syndicated bank acquisition financing and a novel de-risked structure that includes a syndicated...

The Panama Canal is one of the wonders of the world. Jonathan Bell charts its course.

State-owned borrowers in cash-strapped GCC countries – Oman and Bahrain – have been using ECA-backed debt to push out tenors to around 16-17 years. But can the private...

OECD exporters and ECAs often cite the need to modernise the OECD Consensus on export credits. The International Working Group on Export Credits (IWG) is making progress...

With a new renewable energy support scheme in place and a stabilising regulatory environment, the Greek renewables sector has begun attracting international lender and...

Shinhan Capital’s recent redemptions and BAF Capital’s winding down of BLTFF have focused attention on inefficiencies in the trade finance fund market. The extent of the...

The IDFC — which could eventually incorporate US Exim — will see the US try to take on the Chinese development banks at their own game. TXF asks how that will play out...

TXF spoke with Charles Xu, managing director of commercial finance & capital markets at GE China, to discuss the benefits of directly sourcing Chinese financings in a...

A wave of new trade hires has provided Bank of America Merrill Lynch with an opportunity to focus on its strengths and leverage inherent advantages over competitors. TXF...

TXF spoke with Juliette Macresy, head of Greater China and South-East Asia for ESG research and ratings firm Vigeo Eiris, to discuss tracking green loan proceeds against...

Often priced at well below accepted market rates, Chinese official finance is a major hurdle to fair competition in the global export market. A growing number of...

In the latest edition of law firm Sullivan & Worcester’s Trade Finance Breakfast Seminar, partners Marian Boyle and Sam Fowler-Holmes highlight the importance of...

From Asia to the US, Kexim has a number of large-scale oil and gas projects in the pipeline. But after years of cancelled projects, as the liquid Korean ECA flexes its...

A new report on competition within export, ECA-backed and development financing and how some of these practices are distorting the multilateral finance system has just...

From China’s open-ended Belt Road Initiative (BRI) to Asia’s $1.7 trillion infrastructure need per year by 2023, commercial and local banks, ECA/DFIs and institutional...

Saudi Arabia has reached financial close on its first solar utility-scale project – the 300MW Sakaka solar PV plant. The soft miniperm financing is being put forward as a...