With Olam recently signing a $1.45 billion facility linked to AtSource, a platform which provides customers with full traceability and insights on how to improve supply...

Changes to the rules on local content within ECA-backed export financing is just one of the elements of the OECD Arrangement that many have been asking for. Now an...

In honour of International Women’s Day on Monday, TXF takes a look at how gender imbalance within the commodity finance industry is being challenged, from bank diversity...

What has Covid meant for ECAs and their ability to attract smaller companies? How are ECAs responding to the needs of these new clients and how are they broadening their...

In a discussion supported by Finverity, TXF looks at new ways for companies to effectively use digitisation in emerging markets to propel access to financing for...

The container changed global seaborne trade forever. As consumers we simply expect goods to be transported and arrive, but two major incidents this year reveal the harsh...

Russia’s syndicated loan market activity is set to boom at the beginning of 2021, according to sources, as corporates delay their Q4 2020 fundraising plans to avoid any...

This year’s edition of TXF’s Global Commodity Trade Finance Industry Report has landed, offering a thorough and independent look into the impact of the past 12 months on...

The prolonged Covid pandemic is encouraging significant changes in global trade patterns, and according to a recent HSBC survey, Asian corporates are expanding their...

The US administration has drastically upped the ante in its economic war against China with its actions against Huawei. At the same time, US Exim is one agency that has...

Steven Beck, head of trade and supply chain finance at ADB talks to TXF from lockdown Manila about how ADB is supercharging its existing trade finance programs to keep...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, the supply chains that move medical goods and keep the world fed are under duress. But the crisis underscores the need to support trade to...

Cocobod has won TXF’s African Commodities Finance Deal of the Year for securing the first ever syndicated sustainability-linked loan for an African borrower – a milestone...

The Polish offshore wind market is gathering pace. Although questions around local content requirements, local liquidity and local currency-denominated PPAs need to be...

The tentative US-China phase one trade agreement last week brought cheer to the markets. But, asks Jonathan Bell, with so few firm details will this become a real deal...

Correctly pricing sustainability into corporate supply chains shouldn’t just be a matter of ticking boxes (or drawing straws). Companies are going to have to use their...

Matthew Townsend and Jonathan Benson from Allen & Overy outline some of the key points of the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement, focusing on sustainability issues which...

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...