Nicolas Langlois, Standard Chartered’s global head of trade distribution talks to Katharine Morton about the bank’s recent $1 billion risk-sharing with the IFC to boost...
Is it time for supply chain finance to be rebranded? Looking 10 years out is a good way of focusing the mind. Even though there’s a big industry around SCF, will we still...
This year's edition of TXF’s Commodity Finance Market Report comprises the insights of 173 traders, bankers, alternative financiers, lawyers, brokers, borrowers and...
It’s not often nowadays that trade financiers get a positive survey to chew upon. Stuart Nivison digests HSBC’s latest Navigator Survey with TXF. Is the remarkable degree...
Given its status as the world's second largest aluminium producer, Rusal's sustainability-linked loan debut is good news for the growing ESG movement. But like other...
Are corporate treasuries, fintechs and banks missing a trick on cross border working capital optimisation and what will the next five years hold? TXF's roundtable...
With the sponsors of the Formosa 2 offshore wind project having reached financial close on a heavily ECA-backed project financing, confidence in the bankability of...
Katharine Morton looks at the relevance of the new Incoterms for the digital future of trade. Is it a step forward or a missed opportunity?
Shailesh Kumar, head of country, credit, and economic research at The Hartford, examines the categorisation of emerging and developed markets and whether it is, or should...
Ann Rutledge, CEO of CreditSpectrum, reflects on the graveyards of ABCP and looks at the dangers of the debt capital markets’ obsessive fixation on origination and...
De-dollarisation in Russia is on the rise. And with already limited access to the international syndicated loan markets in the face of US sanctions, euro-denominated...
US Exim’s full reauthorisation was expected at the end of last month as glimmers of bipartisan support returned to the US ECA. But now big ticket business is under threat...
Kernel signed a tightly priced $390 million PXF last month – a rare example of a Ukrainian corporate taking the structured trade finance route in 2019. And despite the...
Katharine Morton looks into the sky at Sibos with a guided tour of hyper connectivity, trust, cosmology, trade and eating fairy cakes at the centre of the universe
Before his retirement at the end of last month, after nearly 40 years in the commodity finance sector, TXF spoke with Deutsche Bank’s global head of structured commodity...
Introducing TXF’s vital guide to Sibos, the issues raised for the future of financing international trade for banks and corporates alike as SWIFT’s leviathan event comes...
Polat Energy has signed a gender-linked facility to finance the 48MW Soma 4 wind farm in Turkey. The project, an extension to the existing 240MW Soma wind farm, marks the...
Ahead of TXF Italy next month, TXF talks to Alessandro Terzulli, chief economist of SACE, about the uncertainties of the economic scenario in which SACE SIMEST currently...
Katharine Morton ponders the opacities of financing trade, and what lies beneath, revealed at ITFA’s celebration of a mysterious dance of hide and seek
Glencore’s decision to temporarily mothball the world’s largest cobalt mine in the DRC raises many questions about the state of mining in the central African country....
The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest military insurgence in the gas-rich region, and ECAs and banks reticent on when the deal will close, meeting conditions precedent seems ambitious in 2024.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
Unveil Amsterdam's allure! Elevate your pipeline with top dealmakers. An Industry Awards dinner adds glamour to this unmissable adventure.
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Join us on a mythical adventure through all things export, agency & project finance as TXF Global 2024 travels to the historic city of Athens for the first time!
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