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04 July 2016

YellowWood Adventures becomes a TXF travel partner

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

30 June 2016

Sanjeev Gupta – UK steel’s knight in shining armour?

Ollie Gordon talks to Sanjeev Gupta, the founder and executive chairman of Liberty House Group, about the commodity firm’s much-publicised takeover bid for Tata’s UK...

22 June 2016

How would Brexit affect UK trade?

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...

06 June 2016

ECA borrower interview: Cambridge Industries

Samuel Alemayehu, managing director at Cambridge Industries, tells Ollie Gordon about the Africa-focused clean energy firm’s approach to ECA finance.

25 May 2016

TXF Data Update: 59% drop in number of ECA deals in Q1 2016

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...

24 May 2016

Photos from TXF Amsterdam 2016

TXF held its annual Natural Resources and Commodities Finance Conference in Amsterdam last week. Here are some photos from the conference and the Commodities Finance...

15 April 2016

BEST AMERICAS ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR: Seaborn Networks closes first ECA-backed subsea fibre optic cable deal

Seaborn Networks secured an innovative project financing to fund the establishment of high-speed telecommunications infrastructure between US and Brazil.

12 April 2016

DFI Interview: Insuring your African investments

At the TXF Africa 2016 conference in Addis Ababa recently, Ollie Gordon caught up with Jef Vincent, chief underwriting officer at the African Trade Insurance Agency...

08 April 2016

Lesotho to expand diamond industry amid global downturn in the precious stone

Diamonds may be forever, but they are as vulnerable as the next commodity to a global downturn. Diamond miners had a rough year in 2015, although they still outperformed...

07 April 2016

Back-to-basics finance in Africa and beyond

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...

15 March 2016

ECA Interview: UKEF sharpens its tools

UK Export Finance’s chief executive, Louis Taylor, tells TXF how the export credit agency is broadening its product suite to offer more support to UK exporters.

24 February 2016

TXF Export Finance Report: ECA deal volumes drop by 29%

The global volume of export credit agency (ECA) deals has fallen by nearly a third compared to 2014, according to TXF Data's 2015 Export Finance Report.

18 February 2016

TPP: A treasure trove for trade financiers

Earlier this month, one of the largest multinational trade-liberalisation agreements in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), was signed by its 12 member states...

11 February 2016

20 years in the making: factoring’s long-awaited union

At the beginning of the 2016, Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Factors Group (IFG) merged to form the world’s largest factoring network. The...

09 February 2016

Reliance’s new ‘shopping line’ deal takes petchem spree to $17bn

Reliance Industries’ latest €950 million ($1.04 billion) export credit agency (ECA)-backed deal is expected to push its capital expenditure spree in refinery and...

04 February 2016

Historic TPP trade deal signed in Auckland

One of the largest multinational trade pacts in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), was officially signed today in Auckland, New Zealand by ministers of its 12...

21 January 2016

ECAs: to be, or not to be?

In the wake of US Ex-Im's reauthorisation last month, TXF’s Ollie Gordon catches up with some of export finance’s most sagacious veterans for some honest, off-record...

20 January 2016

Fighting trade finance’s corner

Daniel Schmand, Deutsche Bank’s EMEA head of trade finance & cash management corporates, was elected the new chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC)...

20 January 2016

Exporters’ Choice Awards 2015 winners announced

TXF has announced the winners of the 2015 Exporters’ Choice Awards. Only three banks and three export credit agencies (ECAs) have qualified for the award.

11 January 2016

The dirty underbelly of localisation

Localisation requirements in emerging-markets projects are meant to be a way of giving back; an attempt at ensuring a lasting beneficial legacy for the local population...