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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...

06 January 2016

TRAFIN 2015-1: how to securitise an entire trade portfolio

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

28 December 2015

Year in review: trade and supply chain finance

Hesham Zakai, TXF Media’s content manager, picks his favourite trade and supply chain finance stories from 2015.

27 December 2015

Year in review: export finance

Oliver Gordon, TXF’s News Editor, picks his favourite export credit finance stories from 2015.

21 December 2015

Export finance’s top market moves of 2015

A lot can happen in 12 months. But don’t take our word for it, just ask those in the export finance industry who have set themselves – or been set – on new career paths...

18 December 2015

Expanded Trade Register emphasises trade finance’s low risk

The International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Banking Commission has released its 2015 Trade Register. The report, the fifth of its kind, tripled the value of...

17 December 2015

Glencore: An existential crisis

After its IPO in 2011, commodities behemoth Glencore appeared a few years shy of gaining special-observer status at the UN. Today, its stock sits at around a sixth of the...

30 November 2015

Surveyed exporters pick favourite banks & ECAs

TXF Media will announce the winners of the Exporters Choice Awards in one week. TXF Media, working with Clevis Research, has surveyed 80 exporters to identify the most...

27 November 2015

Democratising supply chain finance

Earlier this week, US working capital financier PrimeRevenue announced it had partnered with global insurer AIG to launch Supply Chain Finance, a new supply chain finance...

26 November 2015

Egypt’s EEHC taps Afrexim-led syndi loan for Canadian gas turbines

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has led a $525 million syndicated loan for the Egyptian Electricity Company (EEHC) to fund the import of gas turbines from...

24 November 2015

Banishing the stigma: how securitisation can plug the hole

Adrian Katz, CEO of Finacity, tells TXF’s Ollie Gordon why trade receivables securitisations could well be the answer to the trade finance industry’s leaking capacity.

23 November 2015

Walking with 'dial-up dinosaurs': supply chain finance now and in five years

Pricing strategies, competition and the best and worst of supply chain finance. Tom Dunn, chairman of Orbian, reveals all to TXF's Ollie Gordon.

19 November 2015

HSBC ousts trade veteran Lambert in GTRF restructuring

HSBC’s highly-regarded global head of commodity & structured trade finance (CSTF), Jean-Francois Lambert, has left the bank. The departure comes as part of a structural...

17 November 2015

TXF announces new Perfect 10 award category

For the 2015 edition of the Perfect 10 Awards, TXF has decided to introduce a brand new accolade: Most Sustainable Deal of the Year.

05 November 2015

NLMK swims against the current for new PXF

Russia’s largest steel producer, NLMK Group, has battled through billowing market headwinds to today close a successful four-year, $400 million pre-export finance (PXF)...