Power is the export finance’s largest sector in H1 of 2016, accounting for 44.1% of the market, with significant growth in both coal-fired and conventional power.

Commerzbank has expanded and repositioned its export finance department in order to become an even bigger player in the ECA market, as Africa and Russia look set to...

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...

Société Générale (SG) global transaction banking (GTB) has appointed Agnès Joly as global head of trade services. Based in Paris, she reports to Christian Behaghel, head...

Trade finance is being increasingly neglected as banks refocus on core markets and slash costs in the face of mounting risks and regulatory pressures. It’s an area of...

TXF has joined forces with YellowWood Adventures to afford TXF subscribers discounted rates for adventure travel tours through Ethiopia’s iconic mountain ranges.

As millions of UK citizens queued up at polling stations the length and breadth of the country, Ollie Gordon talked to trade economists, business associations, and...

All the British EU referendum seems to have been good for so far is trading insults - as emotions run high in the last few days before the historic 23 June vote, and...

The deal is indicative of how shipyards and shipbuilders are increasingly reliant on their buyers obtaining ECA-support to fill their order capacity while also...

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...

In burgeoning market for renewable energy in Latin America, last year’s $306 million San Juan project promises to be Chile’s largest wind farm when complete.

Winning TXF’s Most Innovative Trade / Commodity Finance Deal of the Year 2015 award, L1 Energy’s $2.3 billion seven-year senior

On the sidelines of the recent TXF Africa 2016 conference in Addis Ababa, Ollie Gordon spoke to HE Khaled Mohammed Al-Aboodi, CEO of the IsDB’s Islamic Corporation for...

In a move that highlights traders’ ability to succeed in volatile markets, Trafigura last week signed a $5.1 billion syndicated revolving credit facility and its largest...

Sierra Rutile is in talks with banks for its first pre-export financing as it plans to restructure its existing debt. However, many banks continue to be wary of lending...

With the long-awaited BRICS Bank due to begin lending next month, TXF looks at how the institution is breaking away from the western model of development finance to meet...

Sponsored Editorial: EuroChem Group AG, a global top 10 agrochemical company, received an early Christmas present on December 22nd by closing its long-awaited €557...

Ollie Gordon talks to Guy Brooks about Deutsche Bank’s record-breaking $3.5 billion trade finance securitisation, TRAFIN 2015-1.

There are two distinct possibilities for the future of sustainable trade. One is a positive vision in which deeper globalisation trumps protectionism, and the march of...

KfW IPEX-Bank recently arranged an approximate €1.5 billion ($1.65 billion) export credit agency-backed financing for AIDA Cruises, with the loan being taken by parent...