US Exim: Politics vs profit
US Exim’s full reauthorisation was expected at the end of last month as glimmers of bipartisan support returned to the US ECA. But now big ticket business is under threat...
US Exim’s full reauthorisation was expected at the end of last month as glimmers of bipartisan support returned to the US ECA. But now big ticket business is under threat...
Polat Energy has signed a gender-linked facility to finance the 48MW Soma 4 wind farm in Turkey. The project, an extension to the existing 240MW Soma wind farm, marks the...
Ahead of Sibos 2019 in London this September, CGI’s Rory Kaplan, Senior Offering Manager for Trade and Supply Chain Solutions, and Patrick DeVilbiss, Product Manager for...
Nachtigal set the financing template for hydro in Cameroon in late 2018. Now a very ambitious project more than four times the size of Nachtigal is underway, but is it...
Matthew Oresman and Henrietta Worthington, partner and associate at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, take a look at why they think US policy represents the greatest...
Cofco has signed the largest loan for an agri trading company yet which is linked to sustainability elements. Jonathan Bell examines this growing trend within...
TXF talks to Makiko Toyoda and Jessica Schnabel, the women who are spearheading the development of IFC’s latest initiative to raise access to trade finance for...
TXF’s top takeaways from the biggest gathering of the export and project finance community in the world, TXF Global 2019, are here.
Geothermal power projects in East Africa have been gaining traction after a handful of heavily DFI-backed projects reached financial close. TXF spoke with Darrell Boyd,...
ESG-linked debt in the commodity sector has another convert – Mercon. And ESG transparency is arguably a new first mover advantage in commodity trading. But do ESG-linked...
As the shipbuilding industry in Norway transitions, so the government support appears well-placed to back new developments. However, in the case of finance for a...
John Schuster, President at JLS Capital Strategies, takes a look at what a fully authorised US-EXIM could look like going forward. Will it be merged with the newly formed...
The US Senate is scheduled to vote today on the three nominees to serve on the board of US Exim. If the full quorum is confirmed as expected, will the dark cloud which...
The $15.3 billion RAPID oil refinery in Malaysia is nearing completion. But a recent oil blast has slowed progress and sponsors' aggressive terms have meant financial...
TXF joined the ICC Banking Commission in Beijing as it celebrates a century of the institution whose founders were dubbed the ‘merchants of peace’. Katharine Morton...
Manu Taneja, director of regional cash & banking, APAC at GE Corporate Treasury in Singapore sees a role for traditional trade finance in Asia, but digitisation will be...
From the first sustainability-linked loan in Asia to the world’s first digital loan, Olam International's fundraising innovations in the agri-business sector are clear....
UKEF and TXF teamed up to run a digital event for borrowers looking at entering the Indonesian market. We spoke to Richard Michael, Country Head - Indonesia, UK Export...
As the trans-Atlantic political debate over Nord Stream 2 gets nasty, those involved could not do better than take a lesson in commercial viability from the...
The Letter of Credit (LC) market accounts for $2.3 trillion and has always been dominated by banks. But now, LC LITE has rolled out technological alternatives to LCs by...
This year TXF is celebrating a decade of change at the tenth edition of the Amsterdam Global Commodity Finance event. Read on to find our thoughts on a few of the trends that the market is seeing, from concerns over sanctions to growing gas volumes – as well as a special welcome video from the TXF team.