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20 July 2020

Shop talk: EIB ups impact finance ingenuity

Guido Clary, head of Slovenia and Western Balkans unit at EIB, outlines the DFI’s response to the Covid-19 crisis and explains how its new impact financing initiative, a...

13 July 2020
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Renewables

Seagreen: A taste of offshore wind to come

The recent debt raising for the 60% merchant Seagreen offshore wind project gives a taste of what debt and equity recipe fully merchant offshore wind financing will...

08 July 2020
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Power, Renewables

Mexican renewables: Can DFIs remedy investors’ woes?

A stack of Mexican government policies in the energy space - supposedly implemented in response to the Covid-19 pandemic by Lopez Obrador's government - has forced...

01 July 2020

Stages for Change: Diversifying management in trade & export finance

From entry-level hiring and management promotion to ECA and DFI mandates, TXF’s Stages for Change series examines the role the trade and export finance industries must...

22 June 2020
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Metals and Mining

Russian corporates stay cool, calm and collected amid crisis

While some European commodity-linked corporates are tapping into expensive, short-term debt to boost their liquidity amid the Covid-19 pandemic, many Russian traders and...

19 June 2020

Impact assessment: Covid-19 and cities

In the fifth of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Felix de Grey, a writer and urbanism specialist, to...

18 June 2020
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Oil & gas

Ichthys LNG: More of a reprice than refi

One of the world’s largest LNG projects - Ichthys LNG - has just refinanced the original 2012 ECA-backed project debt stapled to the scheme. But for a repricing exercise...

17 June 2020

Commodity traders feel pricing pinch

Trading houses fundraising activities in the Covid-19 epoch have been few and far between, as record-low oil prices and an increase in the cost of trade debt impact the...

11 June 2020

TXF Global 2020 Export Finance: Virtual event report

As the dust settles after last week’s TXF Global 2020 Export Finance: Virtual event, the findings from the bespoke survey put to e-delegates will continue to surprise and...

08 June 2020
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Infrastructure, Other, Power, Renewables, Transport, Waste and water

Keynote: EKF winds up support

TXF spoke to Kirstine Damkjær, CEO of EKF, to find out how the Danish ECA has ramped up its product offering in response to the Covid-19 crisis.

04 June 2020

Public capital panacea for exporters in Covid-19 recovery phase

In a new white paper, GE EFS has put forward the idea that public capital can become a primary funding solution for vital projects globally and has tapped into its vast...

04 June 2020

Impact assessment: Covid-19 and the world of sport

In the fourth of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Gordon D’Arcy, a retired Irish rugby player, to...

03 June 2020

Perfect 10 winners 2019: Export finance

This year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders...

02 June 2020

The ECA/DFI response manual to Covid-19

CC Solution's has compiled a list of all the new tools and product offerings being rolled out by ECAs and DFIs in their bid to keep the world of trade spinning amid the...

02 June 2020

TXF's top global export finance trends 2020

To inaugurate TXF Global Virtual 2020, the team at TXF put together the top export finance trends which are expected to evolve globally over the course of the year.

29 May 2020

Shop talk: Bpifrance ups ECA cover and offering

Arnaud Floris, head of West, Central and North Africa at Bpifrance has been busy since he started his new role two months ago at the French ECA in the midst of a global...

28 May 2020

Perfect Deals of the Year 2019: Commodity finance

It’s time to celebrate commodity finance excellence, as last year’s most outstanding, unique and influential deals, which cover a range of sectors and regions, have been...

26 May 2020

Keynote: Caterpillar on spreading the ECA umbrella

TXF spoke with Tim Gaul, global export finance director, export and agency finance at Caterpillar to outline what the reauthorisation of US Exim means for the US...

22 May 2020
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Transport

Working capital: The current challenge faced by the shipping industry - what, why, and what's next?

The coronavirus pandemic has reminded the trade community how paramount the maritime industry is to keeping global supply chains flowing. But will digitisation help lower...

21 May 2020

Impact assessment: Covid-19 and the natural world

In the third of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Huw Cordey, acclaimed natural history film producer,...