Demand for trade finance exceeds supply by around $1.4 trillion, a new report by the World Trade Organisation warns. The knock-on effects of this gap on global trade and...

Banks are continuing to withdraw from many of their correspondent banking relationships - a process which threatens global trade, especially in poorer countries. TXF...

Digitalisation is essential for companies looking to enter global trade, a new report finds. Trade stands to make huge efficiency and cost gains from digitalisation, and...

Latin America is undergoing a rapid transition to renewable energy. According to tagmydeals, there was $831 million in ECA-backed renewable-energy deals last year as...

In the second TXF export finance podcast, our experts debate the new regulatory reality in export finance, what it means for the industry, and how the environment will...

In burgeoning market for renewable energy in Latin America, last year’s $306 million San Juan project promises to be Chile’s largest wind farm when complete.

Daniel Riordan has been appointed as president, XL Catlin Global Political Risk and Trade Credit. This represents a significant move from the private insurance...

Helen Castell asks brokers and insurers what’s next for the industry and whether developing unconventional new products is essential for insurers’ survival or a dangerous...

In the face of precarious politics and a troubled economy, Argentina's largest soy bean producer Vicentin closed a $135.3 million PXF in the country's largest...

Fred Hochberg is now officially the longest serving chairman in the history of US Exim Bank. 2016 was his seventh and final annual conference in the role, and TXF caught...

TXF was on hand at the signing of a new cofinancing agreement last week, between US Ex-Im Bank and Turk Eximbank, aimed at making exporters more competitive, particularly...

President and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) Fred Hochberg was visibly moved as he addressed US exporters today in the opening speech of the Annual...

The offshore wind sector has welcomed an increasing cast of lenders and investors over the last five years. But the bulk of development and financing activity is confined...

GT Law’s Gilles Thieffrey provides an update on the impact of Basel III on commodity trade finance and asserts that it will reshape the way commodity trade is being...

KazMunaiGas has signed a $3 billion pre-payment facility - a vital win for the Kazakh oil and gas company which was in danger of breaching its existing loan covenants as...

Blockchain, or distributed ledger technology, is the word on everybody’s lips in financial circles. TXF’s Helen Reid looks in depth at the technology’s applications to...

US shale producers have maxed out their reserve-based loans in a sign of impending bankruptcies, but lenders can expect good recoveries from these, while some frackers...

Banks are in talks with Russian aluminium giant Rusal as it restructures and refinances its debt once more amid depressed aluminium prices and a global glut

The state of trade, commodity and export finance in Brazil: special correspondent Luis Waldmann looks at the avenues that Brazilian exporters have for export, commodity...

Kazakhstan’s state-owned KazMunaiGas is closing a $3 billion prepayment deal with commodities trader Vitol for crude shipments, in an effort to increase liquidity in...