Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest mining company has signed new loan facilities amounting to $7.5 billion to refinance its existing bank debt. The new loan...
Eastern European growth has laboured as a result of the eurozone crisis. Yet overall economic growth continues to surpass that of Western Europe, says Per Fischer, head...
Citi and Santander have partnered to issue Trade MAPS 1 - an asset-backed securitisation (ABS) debt issuance backed by trade finance assets. The two institutions will...
The aviation industry will take delivery of $3.5 trillion of new commercial jets aircraft over the next 20 years, with an average of $125 billion of funding required over...
Stamford, US-headquartered Finacity Corporation has successfully merged of two existing trade receivables securitisations for Mexican glass producer Vitro SAB de CV...
The differences between export credit agencies was a prevailing topic of conversation at the TXF ECA Finance conference in Paris
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has announced a record year for fiscal year 2013. Highlights of the year’s operations include: • OPIC's lending...
Finacity Corporation (Finacity) has facilitated the successful launch of a new $350 million global freight receivables securitisation for German-headquartered Hapag-Lloyd...
Swiss commodities trader Ecom Agroindustrial Corporation (Ecom) is in the process of buying Armajaro Trading, the trading arm of London-based commodity trading house and...
Indonesian oil and gas production company Energi Mega Persada (ENRG) has secured a new $203 million syndicated loan facility. The loan facility will be used to settle...
Berne Union, the association of export credit insurers, today announced the retirement of secretary general Peter Jones.
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has signed a ZAR2.9 billion ($338 million) loan to the Nambian Ports Authority (Namport) to finance the construction of the new...
International drilling contractor Sevan Drilling has also closed and drawn down $1.4 billion of its new $1.75 billion bank facility. The funds relate to the delivery in...
The UK and South Korea are set for greater cooperation between the two countries in the field of export finance following the signing of cooperation agreements between...
Jonathan Bell talks with Fred Hochberg, about the search for a level playing field.
Jonathan Bell examines some of the recent ECA- backed activity in sub-Saharan Africa, and finds an increasingly broad spectrum of transactions.
TXF talks to Citi about some of the major trends impacting the export credit sector at the present time.
TXF talks to HSBC about some of the major trends impacting the export credit sector at the present time.
TXF looks at two recent reports, one from HSBC and one from the IADB, which focus on infrastructure trade and infrastructure investment as vital cogs in the health of the...
Surecomp has announced that its IMEX Trade Finance solution has been deployed by Romania’s UniCredit Tiriac Bank (UTB). Cristina Bunescu, head of trade finance at UTB...
The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest military insurgence in the gas-rich region, and ECAs and banks reticent on when the deal will close, meeting conditions precedent seems ambitious in 2024.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
Unveil Amsterdam's allure! Elevate your pipeline with top dealmakers. An Industry Awards dinner adds glamour to this unmissable adventure.
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Join us on a mythical adventure through all things export, agency & project finance as TXF Global 2024 travels to the historic city of Athens for the first time!
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