An aggressive ramping up of export credit activity by major ECAs and the increasing participation by non-OECD members in the financing space traditionally occupied by the...
Finacity has acted as advisor to CreditCircle, a peer-to-peer loans specialist, in a loan origination programme recently closed between CreditCircle and a regional bank...
German export credit agency KfW IPEX - Bank is providing finance for the supply of raw materials into Germany and the rest of Europe in the form of a $100 million loan...
Raiffeisen Factoring is to receive a €20 million ($27.2 million) loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which the company will use to...
TXF conducted a survey of participants at the ECA/DFI Finance Conference in Paris earlier this month, for the second consecutive year. Here are the results.
Russia’s state-owned gas company Gazprom has moved Ukraine’s Naftogaz to a prepay arrangement, effective earlier today, meaning the country will only receive gas supplies...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is pushing the need for more factoring across Africa, stressing that the lack of factoring services is hindering small-to...
Germany’s KfW IPEX - Bank is financing the export of equipment to Turkey’s steel manufacturer Kardemir with an ECA-covered loan of €140 million ($190 million).
International aircraft leasing company Avolon has filed documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering (IPO).
HSBC veteran Stuart Tait has been selected to take over as head of the bank’s global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) division, replacing James Emmett. Emmett will...
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has expanded its London team with the appointed of Hayden Baker as senior financial institutions (FI) underwriter, regional...
The Berne Union has appointed Kai Preugschat as its new secretary general, filling a gap at the head of the secretariat following Peter Jones’s retirement in November...
Hesham Zakai talks with David Godfrey, chief executive officer of UK Export Finance, about the turnaround which the agency has undergone in the last five years.
Hesham Zakai analyses the results of the inaugural ICC export finance benchmarking survey.
Hesham Zakai assesses the impact of the Russia-Ukraine political problems on trade.
Russia’s Gazprom has signed a 30-year gas contract with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) that will see more than 1 trillion cubic metres of gas flow...
Agricultural commodity trading company Olam International has secured a $2.2 billion unsecured revolving credit facility (RCF).
JP Morgan has appointed Pravin Advani as its new global head of sales for global trade and loan products, effective May 1. He replaces David Conroy in the role, who left...
National Bank of Fujairah (NBF) has launched its structured trade commodity financing (STCF) programme, as a means to be a one-stop solution for the cross-border...
Commerzbank has claimed the prize for the most active confirming banking in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP)...
Seung-Hoon Lee is now head of Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim’s) investment finance team, having recently been director of the new development finance team in the agency’s economic development promotion department. He discusses the agency’s new emphasis on direct equity investment in companies and project funds. How will this affect its longer term finance offering, support export credit, and also its development finance strategy?
The Trump administration’s capture of Nicolás Maduro was in part designed to create opportunities for US players in Venezuela’s oil sector. But both the short-term and long-term challenges to investing in the country’s heavy oil reserves are immense.
TXF spoke with Brigitte Bruengger, head of large enterprises, SME & acquisition at SERV, to outline the recent challenges for Swiss exporters, its scheme for attracting more EPCs to the country, and the importance of reinsurance with other ECAs to manage capital.
Seung-Hoon Lee is now head of Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim’s) investment finance team, having recently been director of the new development finance team in the agency’s economic development promotion department. He discusses the agency’s new emphasis on direct equity investment in companies and project funds. How will this affect its longer term finance offering, support export credit, and also its development finance strategy?
A one-day senior-level event launching the release of full year 2025 export, commodity, project and development finance data reports from TXF, Proximo and Uxolo.
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Full-year 2025 export, commodity, project and development finance data from TXF, Proximo and Uxolo, discussed at a senior-level, one-day event.
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