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15 June 2022

TXF Lisbon: Top takeaways and DoY awards results

We take a quick look at some of the top takeaways from the biggest gathering of the export and project finance community in the world, TXF Global Export, Agency and...

14 June 2022
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Infrastructure, Power

Is Term SOFR the new dollar Libor?

The global project finance market looks set to replace one forward-looking dollar benchmark interest rate with another. Is Term SOFR effectively USD Libor with a new lick...

01 June 2022

Metals and mining at the crucial sustainability crossroads

In the push to decarbonisation and achieving greater sustainability, the metals and mining sector is very much in the spotlight. Many of the challenges are uphill and...

31 May 2022
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Oil & gas, Transport

LNG tankers: A ballooning ECA space?

ECA-backed non-cruise deals accounted for a total deal volume of $5 billion in the shipping sector in 2021. But that figure is expected to rise as the war in Ukraine...

30 May 2022

Digitising trade credit insurance

Ben Heaney, CEO of credit insurance e-trading platform Dialogue, shines the spotlight on the progress of digitally transforming the insurance side of the credit insurance...

27 May 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Oil & gas, Renewables

How is climate finance incorporating ‘just transition’?

Although there is no widely accepted definition of just transition, the agenda is gaining popularity among DFIs, MDBs and impact investors, particularly in the emerging...

28 April 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Other

The harsh reality of the weaponisation of trade

With the war in Ukraine about to enter its third month, there is no sign of Russian military aggression abating. At the same time, turning off the gas tap to Poland and...

20 April 2022
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Metals and Mining, Renewables

The convergence of export & project finance: All roads lead to Lisbon

The who’s who of the export & project finance community have already booked their places to TXF Global/Proximo Europe 2022 in Lisbon from 7-9 June. Have you got your all...

19 April 2022
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Shop talk: Maxwer, an alternative to commodity bank funding

With financial institutions increasingly stepping back from trade finance, in particular supporting commodity SMEs, TXF spoke to Lilia Wernli, CEO and Partner at Maxwer...

11 April 2022
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Infrastructure

Blended finance: How are commercial banks filling the bankability gap?

Commercial banks are increasingly looking at blended finance to push marginally bankable deals over the fence — but hurdles of transparency, a limited pipeline of deals...

06 April 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Other, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

New BU Climate Working Group rolls up its sleeves

Leah Gilbert Morris, Director of International and ECA Relations at Export Development Canada (EDC) and Chair of the BU Climate Working Group on behalf of EDC, discusses...

29 March 2022
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Renewables

ECOFIN: Evolving EU export credit facilities

EU ministers are attempting to update the export finance product offering, with new instruments to better support EU exporters, reforms to the OECD Arrangement and baking...

22 March 2022
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Power

Top takeaways from TXF Americas 2022

Last week, TXF welcomed back the Americas structured trade and export finance community to the heart of Miami. Elsa Fucile from TXF discusses the key discussion points...

03 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Power

Russia/Ukraine: economic fallout will be extreme!

Beyond the horrors and dreadful tragedies of the war in Ukraine there will be extreme economic fallout in the trade and investment space for many years to come. The...

16 February 2022
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Power, Renewables, Transport

Frank talking for ECAs on ESG: On comparing apples and pears

Export credit agencies are still finding their way on how to deliver sustainable export finance in a measurable, consistent and transparent way. Collaboration is...

02 February 2022
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Power, Renewables

Sustainability in export finance – the push for change

The volume of sustainable deals within the export finance sector is growing. But to take this forward positively across all industrial sectors a sensible debate with a...

31 January 2022
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Power, Renewables

ADB’s ETM: Incentivising the retreat from coal

ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) – a funding vehicle to ‘phase out’ coal while scaling up renewables in southeast Asia – has lofty goals which pre-date COP26. But...

24 January 2022
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Renewables

A change of Uzbek wind speed and direction?

Although not the first utility-scale wind project to be awarded in Uzbekistan, the Nukus wind project could prove to be the pathfinder for future wind tenders and...

19 January 2022

Getting on with it: Financing international trade in 2022

What will be the key words for financing trade this year? If last year was all about resilience and pivoting will this year be picking yourself up, dusting yourself off,...

12 January 2022

TXF Local Export Vision 2021 takeaways

TXF’s series of local events around Europe at the end of last year prompted plenty of debate around ECA product and policy. The main takeaways from these hybrid sessions...