Commodity trade tech: The new key to making the margins
The changes that technology will bring to the commodities space are manifold. What can commodity trade finance expect from new technology and, more importantly, is it...
The changes that technology will bring to the commodities space are manifold. What can commodity trade finance expect from new technology and, more importantly, is it...
The first African upstream oil and gas development loan to feature a European export credit agency supporting a project finance/reserves-based lending hybrid, Vitol’s OCTP...
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...
To coincide with the IMF Spring Meetings, MIGA recently held a panel discussion to showcase multilateral breakthroughs in credit enhancement that enable borrowers to tap...
Supply chain finance pure-play providers' use of traditional fee models is causing revenue to be far smaller than increases in new business volumes would suggest. Should...
Uruguay is the MacGyver of clean energy development. Equipped with just some pocket change from the UN’s climate fund, the country has become a global standard-bearer for...
In a blunt welcome address on day one of US Ex-Im's annual conference, Charles Hall, acting US Ex-Im chairman and president, outlined the wider global context in which...
With fierce competition at home forcing European and US supply chain finance (SCF) providers to hunt fresh revenue opportunities, Latin America could be the next big...
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...
As the dazzling array of online trade tools and products continues to evolve, the diverse world of trade and commodity finance has begun to seek out digital solutions to...
Reduced growth forecasts for global trade from the WTO has caused consternation among businesses and economies as the gloomy outlook sees trade flows dip below GDP...
In the latest edition of law firm Sullivan & Worcester's Trade Finance Breakfast Seminars, partner Geoffrey Wynne discusses whether digitalisation can end paper-based...
It’s that time of year again… Everyone here at TXF is very proud to present to you 2016’s second edition of our biannual magazine, The TXF Chronicle – the best of TXF...
While trade between Argentina and the UK has not been as strong as with other Latin American countries in recent years, the election of a new Argentine government has led...
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...
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...
At TXF's Export, Agency and Project Finance conference in Rome last month, delegates collaborated in a group exercise aimed at forecasting the future of the industry....
Ollie Gordon catches up with VTB Bank’s head of global commodities and the managing director of its Trade and Export Finance division to find out how the bank is...
In a wide-ranging interview, Riccardo Greco, chief financial officer of commodity trader BB Energy, talks to TXF’s Ollie Gordon about commodity prices, target markets,...
David Ludlow, head of international business development at UK Export Finance (UKEF), tells TXF how the UK's export credit agency is broadening its operational scope in...
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.