This year Exiar has doubled its volume of insured exports compared to 2015 as an expanded government mandate begins to bear fruit. Max Thompson investigates the driving...

Export credit agencies (ECAs) played a key role in stabilising and preventing a complete drying up of the trade finance market following the financial crisis of 2007. Max...

In today’s economy, access to global markets is essential for small- and medium-size enterprises. Businesses are increasingly spreading their risks across regions and...

Doug Schoch, vice president of Captive Business at Siemens, talks to TXF's managing director Dan Sheriff about Siemens' supply chain finance programme and the direction...

Russia’s Norilsk Nickel has signed a five-year $500 million committed revolving back-stop credit facility (RCF) with a group of international banks. The transaction is on...

An industry survey at TXF's Geneva commodity conference has pointed to suggestions that banks are refocusing how they approach commodity finance structures due to the...

Summer in the northern hemisphere is usually a slow period for export credit agency (ECA) and DFI-backed financing, but this year I can’t help noticing that it is one of...

The total volume of ECA deals taking place in the first half of 2016 dropped by 22.5% compared to same period last year, while SMBC topped the lenders table with $2.19...

The creation of Chinese and Russian blockchain consortiums to match the New York-based R3CEV consortium evokes a Cold War space race in the financial technology sector....

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.

Russian fertiliser producer PhosAgro’s debut PXF is testing market appetite ahead of a planned Eurodollar bond issuance, as Russian exporters benefit from a weak rouble...

Bloated state development bank BNDES is to be slimmed down by the government in order to boost commercial lenders in the Brazilian infrastructure market.

The total number of ECA deals taking place in the first quarter of 2016 has more than halved compared to Q1 of 2015, while deal volume is down 12%. TXF's Q1 data clearly...

Banks are continuing to withdraw from many of their correspondent banking relationships - a process which threatens global trade, especially in poorer countries. TXF...

Latin America is undergoing a rapid transition to renewable energy. According to tagmydeals, there was $831 million in ECA-backed renewable-energy deals last year as...

A spate of high profile ECA and trade finance departures from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has fuelled speculation that the bank is withdrawing from the business...

President and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the US (Ex-Im) Fred Hochberg was visibly moved as he addressed US exporters today in the opening speech of the Annual...

Banks are in talks with Russian aluminium giant Rusal as it restructures and refinances its debt once more amid depressed aluminium prices and a global glut

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) has closed the $3.8 billion project financing facility for its approximate $6.5 billion Liwa Plastics...

TXF‘s Judith Fagelson catches up with a couple of BAML’s short-term trade gurus to discuss how the industry has changed following the infamous events of 2008.