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11 May 2022

One step beyond: New UK trade digitisation legislation on track

Trade digitisation has taken a big step forward globally with the announcement that the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill is on its way to becoming law. What’s the...

06 May 2022

Opinion: Is disruption the norm in the world of commodities?

Jean Francois Lambert, founder and managing partner at Lambert Commodities, asks whether commodity markets were ever steering in calm seas. More crucially, how long will...

25 April 2022
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Power

Under the radar: Electricity transmission in Pakistan

FMO and Proparco’s seven-year loan to Pakistani electricity provider K-Electric to finance the upgrade of its transmission system is arguably the replicable bankable...

30 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Other

A most crucial time to debate commodity flows

The war in Ukraine has disrupted commodity flows significantly. What are the short- and medium-term implications for commodity supply chains? At the TXF Global Commodity...

18 March 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

The Nick Kilhams Foundation: The importance of sharing mental health struggles

The Nick Kilhams Foundation (NKF) has been set up in memory of Nick Kilhams, a well-regarded professional in the insurance industry who sadly took his own life. Catherine...

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...

23 February 2022
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Metals and Mining

Rio Tinto’s workplace report shows toxic culture prevails

The publishing of some shocking statistics in Rio Tinto’s Report into workplace culture has sparked a much-needed discussion around the necessity of a cultural re-haul –...

22 February 2022

Greek project finance on the mend

Since the country's financial meltdown, project finance lending in Greece has slowly made a comeback in tandem with DFI support for a growing renewable energy and PPP...

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,...

08 December 2021

Shades of blue: Painting a picture for global trade in 2022

How to build resilience into the global supply chains that have not proved robust over the pandemic has been a top issue for trade in 2021. COVID, climate and...

18 November 2021
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Other, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Stages for Change: “If you’re about diversity, you need to be about all aspects of diversity”

In this fortnight’s Stages for Change instalment, TXF’s Aife Howse speaks to Allen and Overy’s Catherine Lang-Anderson, who heads up the firm’s trade and commodity...

18 November 2021

From bust to boom, watch your banks!

Much has happened in the commodity trade finance sector over the past two years. Here, Mihai Andreoiu, corporate finance & treasury advisory, head Redbridge Switzerland,...

15 November 2021

Floating solar: The panel's still out on major deal flow

The recent Cirata project financing set some new bankability benchmarks for floating solar in Asia. More substantial deal flow from Asia's island nations may follow, but...

29 September 2021

Time to worry on credit insurance or Relax-ay-voo?

Is there a wave of zombie companies and insolvencies coming in time for Halloween, insolvency tsunamis approaching, reservoirs to overflow in trade credit insurance, or...

23 September 2021

Private capital investors in trade finance – an asset manager’s perspective

Private capital within trade finance activity comes from a diverse range of participants. Today, there is increasing involvement from private credit funds within trade...

15 September 2021

Getting real with physical commodities

It has been a long time and much has happened since we held our last physical global commodities event. But come 7-8 October we are back in Geneva and addressing the...

08 September 2021

Producers that tap project debt

From Vitol’s $7.9 billion Offshore Cape Three Points oil and gas project in Ghana five years ago to Geopacific Resources’ Woodlark gold project in Papua New Guinea this...

04 August 2021
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Infrastructure, Transport

Global trade – all at sea and badly disrupted!

Global seaborne container trade and related supply chains have been heavily disrupted through the course of the pandemic. Shipping costs have consequently increased...

28 July 2021
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Infrastructure, Other, Waste and water

Stages for Change: ‘Life only matters if you can be a blessing to somebody else - I have the chance to do that now'

In this week’s Stages for Change interview, Eavie Burnett talks to Paule Gosset, VP of export & agency finance for West & Central Africa at Commerzbank about her very...

20 July 2021
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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

TXF TV summer series catch-up

Catch up now on the first few sessions of our TXF TV summer series of digital content.