Helen Castell discusses, with some of the world’s biggest exporters and borrowers, the changing role of export credit agencies (ECAs), the impact of political wrangles in...
Chris Mitman, global head of export and agency finance, Investec Bank, Corporate and Institutional Banking, explores current and future potential trends in the market.
Historically, the global trade finance market has been considered liquid and wellfunctioning. Nevertheless, after the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, important...
By Ravi Suri, regional head – corporate finance & project finance, managing director, co-global head – structured export finance; Torsten Richter, head structured export...
Export credit agencies (ECAs) have the mandate to support their national exporters in doing business worldwide.
In recent years, books and websites have been full of articles discussing the changing landscape of export credit financing.
One major lesson learned from the financial crises in emerging markets since the 1980s is that large currency mismatches, both at a public and private sector level,...
As an export credit agency (ECA) that predominately assists small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the New Zealand Export Credit Office (NZECO) has a strong focus and...
Before the financial crisis of 2008-2009, internal consumption and increasing private and public indebtedness – key factors behind economic growth in developed countries...
Houston-headquartered, deepwater drilling specialist company, Pacific Drilling has signed a revolving credit facility (RCF) with an aggregate principal amount of up to...
Japanese export credit agency (ECA), the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC) has, with a club of Japanese banks, signed a loan for FLNG Liquefaction (FLIQ1)....
Tackling terminology now could be a stitch in time for the supply chain finance industry - but it will not be an easy ride
TXF talks with Marc Auboin, counsellor within the Economic Research and Statistics Devision within the World Trade Organisation (WTO), about the continuing dialogue with...
Members of the Berne Union – International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers – came together in London this week for their annual general meeting (AGM). At the same...
This week the Berne Union – the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers – came together in London for their annual general meeting (AGM), which is also the...
The annual Eurofinance event took place in Budapest this week.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is extending its first credit line under its Sustainable Resource Initiative (SRI) with a €50 million ($63.4...
Ukrainian agribusiness company Kernel Group (Kernel) has gained a $50 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Santander has appointed Rogier Schulpen as managing director and global head of trade and working capital solutions.
TXF talks to Lloyds Bank about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
In advance of his appearance at TXF Global in Athens, Tim Reid, CEO of UK Export Finance, discusses the lenses through which the ECA will define the success of its new business plan, which builds on its record as the fourth most active ECA in 2023 according to TXF Intelligence.
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
In advance of his appearance at TXF Global in Athens, Tim Reid, CEO of UK Export Finance, discusses the lenses through which the ECA will define the success of its new business plan, which builds on its record as the fourth most active ECA in 2023 according to TXF Intelligence.
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