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...

With financial institutions increasingly stepping back from trade finance, in particular supporting commodity SMEs, TXF spoke to Lilia Wernli, CEO and Partner at Maxwer...

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...

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...

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...

The war in Ukraine has disrupted commodity flows significantly. What are the short- and medium-term implications for commodity supply chains? At the TXF Global Commodity...

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....

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

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has left project borrowers, international lenders, ECAs, and private insurers asking how much exposure they have to Russian CIS assets? TXF...

Beyond the horrors and dreadful tragedies of the war in Ukraine there will be extreme economic fallout in the trade and investment space for many years to come. The...

Russian and Ukrainian corporates have been the most active users of commodity trade finance since 2017, especially in the metals & mining sector, with European lenders...

Data from TXF's Global Commodity Trade Finance Research Report 2021 shows that market sentiment was uncertain, but more so for corporates

Egypt’s state-owned oil refiner Assiut National Oil Processing Company sealed an innovative $1.5 billion ECA-covered loan to back the Assiut oil refinery expansion...

The publishing of some shocking statistics in Rio Tinto’s Report into workplace culture has sparked a much-needed discussion around the necessity of a cultural re-haul –...

Provisional results from TXF's annual Export Finance Industry Survey indicate that the retreat by export finance banks and ECAs from coal is very real. But it is also...

Export credit agencies are still finding their way on how to deliver sustainable export finance in a measurable, consistent and transparent way. Collaboration is...

With an investment from Netherland’s largest pension fund manager APG, Amsterdam-based fund management group ILX has launched an emerging market focused private credit...

Pricing guidance on the widely anticipated Akbank refinancing is as predicted – a slight jump on the borrower's 2021 deal. For international banks in search of yield,...

Sam Fowler-Holmes, partner, and Jacqueline Cook, senior knowledge development lawyer, trade and export finance, kick off Sullivan's first seminar of 2022.

The volume of sustainable deals within the export finance sector is growing. But to take this forward positively across all industrial sectors a sensible debate with a...