TXF caught up with Olivier David, head of special products at Atradius, to find out more about their tailored credit and political risk insurance products and why data...

In a recent report to mark 20 years of Zurich’s Credit and Political Risk programme, the insurer revealed that some $934 million in claims have been paid to business...

ECAs are stepping up their SME support initiatives. Application processes and ease of access to export cover is improving. But as commercial banks retreat from the SME...

The shift to open account trade continues to raise question marks over the future and relevance of traditional letters of credit (LCs).

While their contribution to trade finance remains tiny compared with that of traditional banks, trade finance funds are an increasingly critical provider of liquidity,...

DFI loans and a rare untied UFK covered loan enabled commercial banks to push the tenor on CBG’s Sangaredi mine expansion financing to 15 years - a record for Guinean...

A first for Reliance in terms of debt volume and vessel type, its partially ECA-covered VLEC post-delivery financing ticked all the lender and borrower boxes.

TXF Events has unveiled the preliminary agenda for its annual flagship global conference covering project, infrastructure, export & agency finance. TXF Venice 2017: The...

Forecasts for trade since the financial crisis have been steady. Now, political anxiety and regulatory tightening casts a huge shadow of ambiguity over the trade outlook...

ECAs are to offer guarantees for two LNG projects in Mozambique, as commercial lenders watch closely to see how talks progress between the government and the IMF before...

GE, Fives and Bouygues are three of the major users of export finance. Here, they share a few of their thoughts about the ECAs they work with, their own constraints, and...

Mauricio Munguia, Latin America desk head at Santander, Stephen Cartwright, the head of Department for International Trade (DIT) in Mexico, and Angus Murray,...

Summer in the northern hemisphere is usually a slow period for export credit agency (ECA) and DFI-backed financing, but this year I can’t help noticing that it is one of...

The 29th annual World Traders’ Tacitus Lecture was delivered this year by the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Paul Tucker, on ‘a new international...

While trade between Argentina and the UK has not been as strong as with other Latin American countries in recent years, the election of a new Argentine government has led...

Trade credit insurance is reeling from the shocks affecting the global economy, recent reports from leading insurers show. World corporate risk has reached a peak, says a...

Project finance looked set to be shook by Brexit, but with a market currently flush with liquidity, and the likelihood of a continued relationship with the European...

Speakers at a blockchain conference at Barclays’ fintech innovation hub, Rise, in East London, emphasised the technology’s potential for replacing paper documents and...

HSBC has set out its stall for the future leadership of its export finance department through a shake-up which sees new heads taking the business line forward.

David Ludlow, head of international business development at UK Export Finance (UKEF), tells TXF how the UK's export credit agency is broadening its operational scope in...