Big questions surround future of mining in DRC
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....
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....
Large companies may actually lack the cash to fund their supply chains effectively, despite surveys saying they are flush with it, and SCF may be being hampered by the...
In the fourth of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about how the internal challenges of the...
TXF talks to Makiko Toyoda and Jessica Schnabel, the women who are spearheading the development of IFC’s latest initiative to raise access to trade finance for...
Despite some of the legal challenges taking place in the US, financiers can be expected to remain committed to the huge volume of hydrocarbons financing which will take...
From the sidelines of TXF Global, Vinco David, secretary general of the Berne Union, talks about the opportunities for export finance in sub-Saharan Africa, the recent...
Rule changes at Lloyd’s of London have strengthened the 330-year-old insurance market’s ability to support buyers of credit insurance worldwide say James Morrell, class...
European solar is predicted to balloon again in the next two years. But with the move to merchant, a relatively seminal corporate PPA market, development of...
This year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders. Read on to find out why...
When the self-styled biggest global provider of trade finance teams up with a large European asset manager to wrap European trade finance assets and lend to institutional...
What do companies do when they get asked by their customers to invoice them via their portal? Sounds good, sounds like digitisation is coming on apace, and e-invoicing...
Vodafone has been using complex financial engineering devised by GAM and Greensill to enable it to profit from and invest in its own SCF offerings and bolster its DPO....
Back in 2014 TXF hosted an export finance filmed webinar with participants assessing both the state of the industry then and how it might be in 2019. Jonathan Bell...
Successful lobbying by trade finance insurers, lawyers, banks and industry bodies has helped the sector dodge the danger of a PRA consultation paper that could have...
The UK's ECA, UKEF, has provided financings for Iraqi power-generation projects for both GE and Siemens, as the industrial conglomerates go toe-to-toe for lucrative...
What is stopping trade finance becoming an easy-to-buy-and-sell asset class? For all the hype, what continues to turn something that should be straightforward into...
The Panama Canal is one of the wonders of the world. Jonathan Bell charts its course.
Despite a record low CfD strike price, the 950MW Moray East UK offshore wind project reached financial close in December backed by strong lender and ECA appetite. Does...
Mexico’s had its ‘moments’ both positive and negative but has been seen as relatively stable for the past decade. Is that all going to change with the new president’s...
Sponsors of the $1.54 billion gas-fired Gulf Sriracha IPP project in Thailand – Gulf Energy Development and Mitsui – have closed a tightly priced DFI/ECA-backed financing...
The litany of lengthy environmental and social (E/S) due diligence processes in ECA deals pose significant problems for projects in Africa. Ram Shalita, CEO & Partner at Bluebird Finance & Projects highlights the issues and provides solutions to speed up deal gestation periods and reduce costs.