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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.

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)...

30 October 2015

Cocobod in talks for new medium-term PXF

The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), the industry body representing the country’s cocoa producers, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new medium-term trade...

23 October 2015

Trade finance’s secondary market slumps on China slowdown

In spite of the industry-wide push to attract investors to trade finance in recent years, risk distribution in the market has slumped in 2015 as waning flows have seen...

20 October 2015

A happy marriage of convenience

At the end of September, US multinational General Electric signed a cooperation agreement with Britain’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance. The MoU could oversee up...

13 October 2015
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Infrastructure, Power, Transport

TAG’s top 5 dealmakers

TXF recently caught up with the five most prolific dealmakers on tagmydeals to find out a little bit about them, their favourite deals from the first half of 2015, and...

08 October 2015

Trade facing stormy waters

The global economy finds itself in an exceptional position: while world GDP continues to grow at a healthy rate, world trade is declining and facing some gusty headwinds....

07 October 2015

Banks still best for supply chain finance

Banks, rather than “thinly-capitalised” fintech providers, are still best placed to provide supply chain finance (SCF) programmes to corporate buyers, Citi’s EMEA supply...

25 September 2015

EuroFinance '15: Supply chain finance – not always a win win win

The usual spiel given by the supply chain finance (SCF) salesman to the corporate buyer is that a SCF programme is a 'win, win, win' solution: a nifty, cutting-edge...