Trade finance funds looking to attract capital from big-ticket institutional investors must provide more clarity about their strategies and where they sit within the...

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has expanded its local currency offering – enabling more overseas buyers to buy UK and pay in locally denominated debt.

As LNG markets mature, commodity traders are making significant inroads into the LNG space - both as providers of finance and infrastructure - and look set to challenge...

What happens to a blockchain proof of concept (PoC) after delivery? TXF looks back at the prototypes that didn’t progress, those that still might, and questions whether...

Hundreds of market leading organisations have confirmed their attendance at the most spectacular event of the year for project, infrastructure, export and agency finance.

In September 2016, despite a BB- rating Russo-Swiss agrochemical producer EuroChem closed a tightly priced $800 million pre-export finance (PXF) facility, slicing 50bp...

Access Power’s crowd-sourced approach to development and InfraCo’s use of convertible debt may have set a new template for development and financing in Africa’s power...

A downturn in global commodity markets and a rise in regulatory pressure has led to greater de-risking by structured trade finance banks. This funding gap is being...

A growing number of investors in trade finance funds complain that low default risk trade data provided by the ICC Trade Registry is being used out of context to pitch...

The ICC Trade Register for 2016 finds that trade finance continues to have a favourable risk profile. However, some within the trade finance community question whether...

Commodity trader Glencore has stolen a march on its rivals, securing an unexpected deal with state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft. The Switzerland-based trading house...

Following a tough 2015 which saw the share price of commodity trader Glencore drop dramatically, signs of improvement have been evident in 2016. The resumption of...

Trafigura subsidiary Galena’s commodity trade finance fund is set to expand its product offering following its takeover by EFA Group. The Singapore-based company takes...

This year Exiar has doubled its volume of insured exports compared to 2015 as an expanded government mandate begins to bear fruit. Max Thompson investigates the driving...

Debt structures for nuclear power plants could evolve beyond government-to-government funding.

In a ground-breaking transaction for Ghana, HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank have issued a $500 million stand-by letter of credit on behalf of Ghana National Petroleum...

An industry survey at TXF's Geneva commodity conference has pointed to suggestions that banks are refocusing how they approach commodity finance structures due to the...

Swiss-headquartered, Russia-focused fertiliser producer Eurochem’s recent PXF sees the potash supplier attempt to restructure its debt and manage liquidity at a time of...

Financial sector and trade finance regulation needs advocacy, engagement and dialogue from all parties to ensure the sector moves forward in a workable and profitable...

China Eximbank is advancing a $500 million loan to Ethiopia towards the construction of an industrial park in Adama, in the latest rapprochement between the two...