With financial institutions increasingly stepping back from trade finance, in particular supporting commodity SMEs, TXF spoke to Lilia Wernli, CEO and Partner at Maxwer...

With Indonesia’s newly revised 40GW-plus power procurement plan by 2030, project debt – and ECA support – is higher on PLN’s financing agenda in the wake of the pandemic....

The role of ECA support is changing amid a turbulent economic and geopolitical backdrop, and so many bad news events since the turn of the decade. ECA volumes and...

EU ministers are attempting to update the export finance product offering, with new instruments to better support EU exporters, reforms to the OECD Arrangement and baking...

With EPC and commodity costs rising globally, energy security concerns in Europe and parts of Asia lending added impetus to both short-term LNG and traditional renewables...

As part of our virtual event, TXF Sustainable Export Finance and Resilient Infrastructure 2022, we hosted a session with Gabriel Buck from GBK Ventures to explore the...

As Western sanctions against Russia ratchet up, international syndicated loan bankers assess the country’s financial quagmire, with one potential outcome being Russia...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left project borrowers, international lenders, ECAs, and private insurers asking how much exposure they have to Russian CIS assets? TXF...

Russian and Ukrainian corporates have been the most active users of commodity trade finance since 2017, especially in the metals & mining sector, with European lenders...

Egypt’s state-owned oil refiner Assiut National Oil Processing Company sealed an innovative $1.5 billion ECA-covered loan to back the Assiut oil refinery expansion...

Pricing guidance on the widely anticipated Akbank refinancing is as predicted – a slight jump on the borrower's 2021 deal. For international banks in search of yield,...

The volume of sustainable deals within the export finance sector is growing. But to take this forward positively across all industrial sectors a sensible debate with a...

ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) – a funding vehicle to ‘phase out’ coal while scaling up renewables in southeast Asia – has lofty goals which pre-date COP26. But...

EXIM Hungary’s new five-year strategy, which will run until 2026, anchors the Hungarian ECA’s future development in education and cooperation. TXF spoke with Gergely...

Smile Telecoms is arranging its second restructuring plan to avoid insolvency. But senior lenders to the group, including African Export-Import Bank, could be wiped out...

TXF’s series of local events around Europe at the end of last year prompted plenty of debate around ECA product and policy. The main takeaways from these hybrid sessions...

Sermsang Power sealed an innovative $35 million ECA-backed financing for its ground-mounted 50MW Binh Nguyen solar park in Vietnam at the end of 2021. But the more...

The export credit agency (ECA) offering has evolved and proved ever resilient in 2021, with yet another buoyant year for the market. But there are still several updates -...

EXIM Hungary upped its lending activity and added new loan schemes to its product suites in 2021, and was also elected to the Berne Union Management Committee. TXF spoke...

TXF spoke with Robert Suter, head of international relations & business policy at SERV, and Irene Gambelli, a senior adviser on international relations at SACE, in their...