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18 May 2022

PSF: IsDB’s private sector bonanza

On 2-4 June, the IsDB Group’s Private Sector Forum 2022 in Egypt will gather key industry players to discuss what opportunities and financial solutions private sector...

13 May 2022

Picking up speed! TXF Commodity Finance Deals of the Year

Deals of the Year – the TXF Perfect 10 – are a time for celebration! Here, we reveal the winners of the Commodity Finance Deals of the Year, for transactions signed in...

11 May 2022

One step beyond: New UK trade digitisation legislation on track

Trade digitisation has taken a big step forward globally with the announcement that the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill is on its way to becoming law. What’s the...

06 May 2022

Opinion: Is disruption the norm in the world of commodities?

Jean Francois Lambert, founder and managing partner at Lambert Commodities, asks whether commodity markets were ever steering in calm seas. More crucially, how long will...

28 April 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Other

The harsh reality of the weaponisation of trade

With the war in Ukraine about to enter its third month, there is no sign of Russian military aggression abating. At the same time, turning off the gas tap to Poland and...

21 April 2022

BNDES’ Montezano: A DFI on rebuilt foundations

Gustavo Montezano, President of BNDES, is putting ESG at the heart of the development bank's financing strategy. The policy has refocused the bank on its original core...

20 April 2022
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Metals and Mining, Renewables

The convergence of export & project finance: All roads lead to Lisbon

The who’s who of the export & project finance community have already booked their places to TXF Global/Proximo Europe 2022 in Lisbon from 7-9 June. Have you got your all...

11 April 2022
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Infrastructure

Blended finance: How are commercial banks filling the bankability gap?

Commercial banks are increasingly looking at blended finance to push marginally bankable deals over the fence — but hurdles of transparency, a limited pipeline of deals...

07 April 2022
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Power, Renewables

Sponsor profile: Breaking PLN’s 40GW threshold

With Indonesia’s newly revised 40GW-plus power procurement plan by 2030, project debt – and ECA support – is higher on PLN’s financing agenda in the wake of the pandemic....

06 April 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Other, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

ECA evolution needed to meet rising demand

The role of ECA support is changing amid a turbulent economic and geopolitical backdrop, and so many bad news events since the turn of the decade. ECA volumes and...

01 April 2022
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Manufacturing & equipment, Power, Renewables, Transport

Corporate Perspective: Wartsila’s Back on financing sustainability in the face of headwinds

Andreas Back, senior manager, financial services at Wartsila reflects on the challenges of financing sustainable power and marine in the headwinds of the pandemic, the...

28 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Power, Telecoms and Communications

Crunching the ECA numbers

With EPC and commodity costs rising globally, energy security concerns in Europe and parts of Asia lending added impetus to both short-term LNG and traditional renewables...

23 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Other

Commodity Finance Data Report 2021: A first glimpse

The Commodity Finance Data Report 2021, which comprises an in-depth overview of commercial loans in the commodities industry, was published this week. Here are some of...

22 March 2022
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Power

Top takeaways from TXF Americas 2022

Last week, TXF welcomed back the Americas structured trade and export finance community to the heart of Miami. Elsa Fucile from TXF discusses the key discussion points...

21 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Oil & gas, Other

Shop talk: Citi’s head of commodity and energy trade talks strategy

TXF spoke to Christine McWilliams, global head of commodity and energy trade at Citi about the bank’s longer term strategy after a decade back in the commodity markets....

18 March 2022
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Other

Market calls for change: cut the minimum OECD premium for ESG projects

Lower minimum premium pricing for social/environmental projects is the most needed change to the OECD arrangement according to TXF's annual Export Finance Industry...

16 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power

Ukraine conflict: The Africa trade balance

The impact of conflict in Ukraine on the world economy is not difficult to summarise: bad. In the case of Africa, it is much more complicated because of the continent’s...

15 March 2022
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Power

Green hydrogen just got more pricing friendly

The impact of the war in Ukraine on gas prices may cut years off the gestation originally predicted for the development of a global green hydrogen market – and with it,...

09 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Transport

Will Russia issue a debt moratorium?

As Western sanctions against Russia ratchet up, international syndicated loan bankers assess the country’s financial quagmire, with one potential outcome being Russia...

08 March 2022
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Oil & gas, Power, Renewables

DFI cooperation – a future casualty of war?

From the balance sheet to the boardroom, the implications for some DFIs and supranationals from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are more than just indirect hits from...