Private wealth: Bridging the infrastructure and trade gaps?
On paper the demand should be there – a mix of low default short tenor and long tenor assets make trade and infrastructure a logical mix for private wealth investors. But...
On paper the demand should be there – a mix of low default short tenor and long tenor assets make trade and infrastructure a logical mix for private wealth investors. But...
TXF’s Global Project Finance Day in Prague at the start of this month threw out some big numbers on global infrastructure needs as well as some strong predictions on the...
The commodity trading landscape is changing, as are the needs to insure risk by both commodity traders and producers. Katharine Morton spoke to brokers, insurers and the...
Despite Argentina's recent FX troubles, investor appetite for its new $26 billion PPP programme remains strong – in part because investors are taking a long term view,...
Financial regulators across Europe, North America and Asia are adopting a variety of strategies to encourage the development of financial technology in their...
The ICC has established a working group aimed at fostering a greater sustainable development agenda in export finance. Is it just tinkering? And does it have any chance...
Winning TXF’s Best Commodity Trader Finance Deal of the Year, Trafigura sealed a complex $250 million two-step pre-payment loan in 2018 to finance the procurement of...
In an amend-and-extend of a previous PXF for crude oil exports, the government of Oman was able to secure the same cost of funding despite a dramatic deterioration of its...
With a new report from the World Bank concluding that the participation rate of institutional investors in infrastructure projects remains low, TXF looks at some of the...
Size matters - but innovation, strong marketing and a willingness to take on risk are the key traits that this year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Deals of the Year all...
The regulatory changes prompted by PSD2 represent an opportunity for corporate treasury to change the way they interact with their supply chain and customers, as well as...
Lending demand from South Africa’s mining sector has been sluggish at best – a symptom of poor economic governance, a new mining charter verging on the absurd and the...
The latest revisions to Basel III are generally good news for banks. But they’ll still have to do more to manage their project finance loan books.
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...
Despite a complete overhaul of management at Sonangol - most notably the removal of Isabel dos Santos as chairperson - the ongoing refinancing of the state-owned oil...
In anticipation of new renewable energy auctions for large-scale projects in December or January 2018, El Salvador has continued to progress in the project space despite...
UK Export Finance (UKEF) has expanded its local currency offering – enabling more overseas buyers to buy UK and pay in locally denominated debt.
Interconnector Italia – a consortium of high-energy-use private sector companies in Italy – has signed a partially EIB-backed financing for its share of the Italy-France...
Downgraded in the middle of major refinancings, Noble is looking at tighter covenants, a higher cost of debt for 2017 and a hit on its ability to trade competitively -...
Pemex kicked off 2017 with a record-breaking eurobond and the announcement of a halving of losses in 2016. The debt-ridden oil producer has even put in place an...
Senior practitioners of the trade and export finance community will gather at the University of St Gallen this autumn for another edition of IfTI’s Global Symposium. Expect lively debate around case studies and best practices in trade as geopolitical tensions rise.