Smithfield Foods, one of the US’s largest pork producers, is purchasing grains and grain elevators directly from farmers and steadily removing traders from parts of their...
Agricultural trader Nidera has had a string of problems in recent years as it continues its integration into Cofco Agri. However, lenders are still confident that Cofco...
Lotte Chemical Corporation sealed its first ECA-backed loan in October after the $1.59 billion transaction was initially put on hold due to an ongoing government...
The bank financing for a Texas water pipeline recovers from the loss of its original developer. By Tom Nelthorpe.
When the famous Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson opined, “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant,” he encapsulated the need...
The RCF – which matches last year's largest-ever facility secured by the company – was heavily oversubscribed and is indicative of continued lender appetite for the...
UK Export Finance’s CEO, Louis Taylor, sits down with Ollie Gordon to discuss the export credit agency’s financial results for 2015/16, as well as touching on Brexit’s...
Cargill and Bunge stood out as the only traders not to cut ties with Malaysian palm oil producer IOI after its sustainability certificate was suspended, throwing up...
TXF looks at Export Development Canada's unique and controversial 'pull strategy,' of untied financing to foreign companies like BMW.
UK Export Finance’s chief executive, Louis Taylor, tells TXF how the export credit agency is broadening its product suite to offer more support to UK exporters.
Japan has become the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) importer as it diversifies away from nuclear power. A recent deal between Japanese export credit agency...
Despite offering new products and services to exporters, the British government is struggling to combat the country’s record £125 billion trade gap.
A lot can happen in 12 months. But don’t take our word for it, just ask those in the export finance industry who have set themselves – or been set – on new career paths...
In part three of our interview series, TXF’s Helen Castell talks to INOKS Capital chief executive Nabil Marc Abdul-Massih about the importance of regulation and his...
Paris-headquartered finance arranger and trade credit insurance broker Cofarco has hired Stephen Dimon to strengthen its project and natural resources finance team
At the end of September, US multinational General Electric signed a cooperation agreement with Britain’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance. The MoU could oversee up...
The French development finance institution Agence Française de Développement (AFD) has signed a €100 million ($112.5 million) line of credit facility agreement with the...
CC Solutions' Valerie Colville discusses how the US export credit agency’s charter came to expire on 30 June, what is likely to come next, and what can be done to bring...
Louis Taylor has been appointed as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the United Kingdom’s export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF). He takes up the role in...
Jonathan Bell reviews this year’s Ghana Cocobod financing, analyses the record of pricing, and looks at the prospect of further value-added for African soft commodities.
This year TXF is celebrating a decade of change at the tenth edition of the Amsterdam Global Commodity Finance event. Read on to find our thoughts on a few of the trends that the market is seeing, from concerns over sanctions to growing gas volumes – as well as a special welcome video from the TXF team.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
Unveil Amsterdam's allure! Elevate your pipeline with top dealmakers. An Industry Awards dinner adds glamour to this unmissable adventure.
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Join us on a mythical adventure through all things export, agency & project finance as TXF Global 2024 travels to the historic city of Athens for the first time!
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