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01 August 2017
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Oil & gas, Transport

Bridging the gap: Exporters look elsewhere as US Ex-Im is unable to provide

US Ex-Im has been without authority to approve transactions above $10 million for over 18 months, provoking huge changes for some of Ex-Im’s largest clients. However,...

30 June 2017

US Ex-Im: Back with the big bucks?

Unable to approve transactions of more than $10 million for over a year now, the two Trump nominees for the new US Ex-Im quorum have sent a mixed message to the...

31 May 2017

TXF Africa talk: Siemens on electrifying sub-Saharan Africa

We caught up with Rotimi Thomas, head of market development in sub-Saharan Africa for Gas 2 Power, to talk about how Siemens can work closer with ECAs and project...

17 March 2017

Do green bonds equal clean?

The power of ‘green’ has ballooned in the past decade, as investors look for responsible ways to invest. People are catching wind of the opportunities for investment in...

12 December 2016

ELZ Finance: The EBRD and MIGA target bond guarantees

Credit enhancement on the Elazig hospital PPP financing shows how bonds could help emerging markets projects take off.

09 December 2016

IBM and Mahindra aim to evolve Indian supply chain with blockchain solution

IBM and Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group announced this month their new partnership in developing a blockchain prototype to aid Mahindra’s supply chain, a first for a...

30 November 2016

Kexim rolls out reforms to tackle shipping woes

South Korean state-run banks Kexim and KDB are currently trimming the fat as part of efforts to "reform" themselves and cut internal costs after over exposure to the...

07 November 2016

Small business is big business for US Exim Bank

In today’s economy, access to global markets is essential for small- and medium-size enterprises. Businesses are increasingly spreading their risks across regions and...

12 August 2016

TXF Data Update: JBIC most active ECA in H1

The Japanese ECA, JBIC, topped the table by covered volume with 25 transactions totalling $9.68 billion in H1 of 2016, with the German ECA Euler Hermes in second place...

22 April 2016

MOST INNOVATIVE ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR: Peru’s Lima Metro taps ECA and PPP model

In a pioneering $800 million deal to finance Peru’s Lima Metro, the borrowers successfully structured a joint ECA and Public Private Partnership, to be crowned as TXF’s...

20 April 2016

Former Berne Union president takes leading role at XL Catlin

Daniel Riordan has been appointed as president, XL Catlin Global Political Risk and Trade Credit. This represents a significant move from the private insurance...

14 April 2016

ECAs propel cruise-ship market boom

Last week, MSC Cruises signed a letter of intent with STX France for the construction of four LNG-powered ships with France's ECA, Coface, backing the $4.5 billion...

23 March 2016

EDC goes out on the pull

TXF looks at Export Development Canada's unique and controversial 'pull strategy,' of untied financing to foreign companies like BMW.

26 February 2016

TXF Export Finance Report: HSBC tops 2015 ECA lenders table

HSBC was the biggest lender of export credit agency (ECA) debt in 2015, according to TXF Data's Export Finance report, signing a total of $4.54 billion of ECA-supported...

12 February 2016

Lundin signs Europe’s largest reserve-based loan

As oil prices reached 12-year lows with wide-ranging consequences for the petroleum industry, Lundin Petroleum (Lundin) sealed the largest-ever reserve-based lending deal...

12 February 2016

Bank-fintech alliances set to revolutionise B2B payments

In a new report just released, it asserts that banks and fintechs should collaborate rather than compete, as a strategy to overcome some of the challenges facing the...

18 December 2015
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Transport

Coface backs first ATR aircraft bond

Singapore based aircraft lessor, Transportation Partners, has issued a $143.7 million bond guaranteed by French export credit agency (ECA) Coface to refinance 10 ATR...

05 November 2015

Berne Union elects Topi Vesteri as president at AGM in Shanghai

At the Berne Union - the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers - and Prague Club annual general meeting this week in Shanghai - hosted by China’s official...

10 July 2015

IFIs plan $400 billion injection for sustainable development goals

International financial institutions (IFIs) namely the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the IMF, have signaled plans to extend more than $400 billion in...

27 April 2015

All creatures, great and small, welcomed in Washington

Although the emphasis was very much on SME business at the Export-Import Bank of the United States’s (US Ex-Im’s) annual conference in Washington DC last week, it was the...