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21 March 2016

Rusal restructures debt...again

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

18 March 2016

Bleak outlook for Brazilian exporters and importers

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...

10 March 2016

KazMunaiGas crashes prepayment party to improve debt profile

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...

02 March 2016

US Exim inches closer to quorum following Shelby’s primary victory

US Exim could be one step closer to being able to fully supporting US exporters following Senator Shelby’s recent victory at the Alabama Primary.

02 March 2016

Nigeria’s NNPC bid for transparency attracts lenders

International banks are showing renewed interest in investments in Nigeria’s oil sector, as the new management of state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...

22 February 2016

The dragon in the Andes: China pushes risky LatAm loans

Chinese development banks lent a total of $29.1 billion to Latin America in 2015 – nearly triple the amount of 2014, and more than the combined lending from the...

15 February 2016

Citi’s trade chief: 2015 was the riskiest year to date

In a wide-ranging interview, Citi’s global head of trade, John Ahearn, talks to TXF’s Hesham Zakai about challenging pricing in the market; why 2015 was the riskiest year...

01 February 2016

US Ex-Im bank redemption: (Nearly) free at last

Fred Hochberg, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) speaks to TXF about the reality of running a bank that has been held...

22 January 2016

EDC signs first Turkish loan guarantee

Canada's export credit agency Export Development Canada (EDC) has provided its first guarantee for a loan from international banks to a Turkish corporate last month.

20 January 2016

Fighting trade finance’s corner

Daniel Schmand, Deutsche Bank’s EMEA head of trade finance & cash management corporates, was elected the new chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC)...

20 January 2016

Exporters’ Choice Awards 2015 winners announced

TXF has announced the winners of the 2015 Exporters’ Choice Awards. Only three banks and three export credit agencies (ECAs) have qualified for the award.

23 December 2015

The 10 biggest trade and treasury market moves of 2015

Below are the 10 people moves that defined the trade and supply chain world in 2015. We have listed the 10 biggest trade and supply chain market moves that we...

05 November 2015

Berne Union elects Topi Vesteri as president at AGM in Shanghai

At the Berne Union - the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers - and Prague Club annual general meeting this week in Shanghai - hosted by China’s official...

29 October 2015

Asian export finance community bullish for 2016

The export finance community in Asia was, as ever, bullish on growth forecasts for the year ahead. A poll of delegates taken at the TXF Asia Export and Agency Finance...

21 October 2015

ICC Academy: TXF talks to ICC & IE Singapore

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and IE Singapore have collaborated to launch the ICC Academy, which aims to provide “rigorous and relevant” business education...

13 October 2015
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Infrastructure, Power, Transport

TAG’s top 5 dealmakers

TXF recently caught up with the five most prolific dealmakers on tagmydeals to find out a little bit about them, their favourite deals from the first half of 2015, and...

12 October 2015

A changing Berne Union for a new and volatile world

Daniel Riordan reviews the risks facing insurers in 2015 and highlights how the Berne Union is adapting to help its members

12 October 2015

SMEs and Denmark’s EKF

EKF, Denmark’s export credit agency, knows from experience with small and medium- sized enterprises that they are an increasingly important sector of the economy and that...

12 October 2015

SMEs and the Berne Union

Last year, the Berne Union provided an update on how its members have worked with small and medium-sized exporters (SMEs) given their important roles in supporting...

12 October 2015

ECA innovations – the Finnvera example

Finland’s Export Guarantee Act was amended in September 2014 to enable export credit agency (ECA) Finnvera to grant guarantees also to large companies in Finland for...