In the latest edition of the TXF Export Finance podcast, Simon Jones, Simon Sayer and Gabby Buck discuss the performance of the ECA finance industry in the first half 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...

Governments around the world are slowly but surely turning their backs on the open-market agenda, and global trade flows are starting to feel the repercussions. Ollie...

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.

Australia's Hornsdale Wind Farm secured financing with a club loan of A$173.5 million from KfW IPEX-Bank and Société Générale for the project’s second stage of...

Following on the distribution theme, this podcast examines the developing relationship between export finance, institutional investors and the capital markets.

For the fourth edition of our export finance podcast, we look at the issue of distribution - how are models changing, what are the key drivers, where are the regulatory...

In this episode, our experts explore the relationship between private insurance and the export finance industry. How has the relationship between private insurance and...

In the second TXF export finance podcast, our experts debate the new regulatory reality in export finance, what it means for the industry, and how the environment will...

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.

The digitisation of trade finance has the potential to deliver significant benefits to corporates, banks, carriers and other trading partners. As well as reducing the...

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...

The world is about to enter a third wave of globalisation, with goods exported predicted to reach $68.5 trillion by 2050, according to the Trade Winds Report released by...

The UK government aims to help make London the leading centre for offshore renminbi (RMB) business outside China, not least because the currency has now overtaken the...

Geopolitics and international conflict were identified by the WEF at the beginning of 2015, as the primary risks facing business in the world today. However, the...

If we think about academic research, we often think about theory development and testing with no or little concern for impact on the real world. We sometimes believe that...

After five years of negotiations, agreement has been reached today in Atlanta on the far-reaching Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The TPP – an agreement...

Simon Jones has joined TD Securities as head of export & agency finance for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. He will be based in London.

BNP Paribas and Intesa Sanpaolo are providing export credit financing to fund the €306 million ($334.7 million) Itare dam project in Kenya. The project, which is backed...

Malta-headquartered trade finance bank, FIMBank has appointed Murali Subramanian as its new chief executive officer (CEO). The change comes following a seven-month period...