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...
TXF's global trade report 2021 is available to download now.
The approximately NT$75 billion ($2.67 billion) non-recourse multi-tranche holdco financing backing the acquisition of CDPQ and Cathay Private Equity’s 50% interest in...
TXF’s top takeaways from the biggest gathering of the export and project finance community in the world, TXF Global 2021, are here.
Two of the world’s largest fertilizer suppliers are chasing an almost $10 million default from a global reinsurer, in a case that illuminates the perils of using...
COP26 has marked a tectonic shift in the architecture of the global financial system to deliver net zero. But the next NDCs should be sooner than every five years to set...
The success of the Uzbekneftegaz $3.6 billion GTL (gas-to-liquid) project – launching in early 2022 - paves the way for other major industrial projects in the country....
The plethora of pledges emerging apace from COP26 are expected to spur a spate of emerging market corporate issuance in the capital markets. But with green finance taking...
Ahead of TXF Global in Madrid next week, Max Thompson takes a look at the increased innovation and flexibility ECAs are showing around the structure of export credits in...
Is there a wave of zombie companies and insolvencies coming in time for Halloween, insolvency tsunamis approaching, reservoirs to overflow in trade credit insurance, or...
The solely DFI-backed non-recourse debt package funding development of the Meridiam-led 35MW Kinguele Aval hydropower plant in Gabon is set to serve as viable financing...
Private capital within trade finance activity comes from a diverse range of participants. Today, there is increasing involvement from private credit funds within trade...
The record surge in export finance volumes in 2023 was not just driven by existing banks writing larger tickets. TXF looks at the new lenders in export finance, and the regions, assets, and ECAs that drew them in, as well as what opportunities and dynamics this might create in the market.
EET Fuels is leading the development of a major UK hydrogen cluster around its Stanlow refinery operations. The company has put its decarbonisation plans firmly behind alternative fuels as it looks to diversify its operations from traditional oil & gas assets.
Edna Schoene, CEO of Euler Hermes, naturally chose the eponymous messenger Hermes as her legendary figure of choice when TXF spoke to her at Global 2024: Export, Project & Development Finance in Athens. But the discussion of the German ECA’s new transformational strategy was anything but mythological – faster, yes, but also leaner, greener, and better, will be the new watchwords. How will it be delivered?
US Exim has released its annual competitiveness report, and the story is familiar. While progress has been made in dealmaking since its 2019 reauthorisation, Exim remains a conservative ECA in comparison with the most active players in the market.
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