Book Launch: The Weaponization of Trade
Rebecca and Jack Harding, authors of upcoming book ‘The Weaponization of Trade’, outline how trade is fast becoming a tool of foreign policy aggression, why a rise in the...
Rebecca and Jack Harding, authors of upcoming book ‘The Weaponization of Trade’, outline how trade is fast becoming a tool of foreign policy aggression, why a rise in the...
With backing from seven ECA’s and 11 commercial banks, KNPC's $6.25 billion Clean Fuels project financing is setting a new benchmark for inter-creditor complexity.
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...
In the most recent offering from TXF’s podders, the team discuss the benefits and challenges small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) currently face in tapping the export...
TXF joins the front line with Rebecca Harding co-author of ‘Trade Wars – how trade is being ‘weaponised’ to discuss the theory and narrative behind the book.
With costs down and technology improving, some argue ECA support for European offshore wind is actually distorting debt pricing in a market that could be commercially...
Come on in, put the kettle on and enjoy TXF’s new podcast where our panel discuss the ‘biggest shift, biggest change’ in trade over the past year, and give their...
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...
Although experiencing problematic market conditions, commodity trader Ocean Partners successfully closed a refinanced revolving credit facility in July, attracting...
In the last 18 months it has become increasingly common to note that the supply of infrastructure projects isn’t strong enough to keep pace with debt market liquidity....
Equant Analytics has calculated that global trade is $2.1 trillion higher than the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) official figures. TXF speaks with Equant's co-founders...
Earlier this month, one of the largest multinational trade-liberalisation agreements in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), was signed by its 12 member states...
International credit insurance company Euler Hermes has launched a new division - Euler Hermes Energy. The new division will be North American-based and focus on...
Oman-based drilling rig operator Dalma Energy International has secured a $77.5 million financing arranged by Bank Sohar and Qatar National Bank (QNB).
If Quantitative Easing (QE) in Japan and Europe was meant to do anything, it was meant to weaken the yen and the euro in order to stimulate export-led recovery. It is too...
SeaMex has secured a $750 million syndicated credit facility from a group of 13 international banks, TXF has learnt. The facility will allow the company to develop five...
The value of the yuan against the US dollar is not making the headlines it should at the moment. Between the 17th and 20th March it appreciated by nearly 1%.
Why January’s drop in exports may not be such bad news | Chinese exports in January 2015 fell by 3.3% compared to a year earlier.
Equinox Global (Equinox), the Lloyd’s cover holder specialising in trade credit insurance, has appointed Kully Ubhi and Jack Woodruff to its UK team.
World trade grew at around 1.2% during 2014. This is still a forecast but is based on the actual data from the International Monetary Fund for the first three quarters of...
Long tenors remain the scarce commodity in Sub-Saharan social infrastructure. But Mitrelli has reached financial close on a 19-year Atradius-backed loan for the Katyavala Bwila University (KBU) expansion in Angola — a structure that shows how ECA cover can push out the tenor envelope for education infrastructure on the continent.