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09 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Transport

Will Russia issue a debt moratorium?

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

03 March 2022
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Other, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Analysis of export finance exposure to Russian markets

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...

02 March 2022
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Metals and Mining

Commodity trade: European banks most exposed to Russian risk

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...

01 March 2022
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Oil & gas

ANOPC: A partial sovereign solution

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...

09 February 2022

Margin gauge: Turkish banks’ borrowing costs rise

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,...

02 February 2022
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Power, Renewables

Sustainability in export finance – the push for change

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...

31 January 2022
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Power, Renewables

ADB’s ETM: Incentivising the retreat from coal

ADB’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) – a funding vehicle to ‘phase out’ coal while scaling up renewables in southeast Asia – has lofty goals which pre-date COP26. But...

28 January 2022

EXIM Hungary: Old mission, new strategy, expanded role

EXIM Hungary’s new five-year strategy, which will run until 2026, anchors the Hungarian ECA’s future development in education and cooperation. TXF spoke with Gergely...

13 January 2022
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Telecoms and Communications

Smile Telecoms senior lenders face wipeout in second restructuring

Smile Telecoms is arranging its second restructuring plan to avoid insolvency. But senior lenders to the group, including African Export-Import Bank, could be wiped out...

12 January 2022

TXF Local Export Vision 2021 takeaways

TXF’s series of local events around Europe at the end of last year prompted plenty of debate around ECA product and policy. The main takeaways from these hybrid sessions...

06 January 2022
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Renewables

Binh Nguyen: Small tickets; big regulatory hurdles

Sermsang Power sealed an innovative $35 million ECA-backed financing for its ground-mounted 50MW Binh Nguyen solar park in Vietnam at the end of 2021. But the more...

24 December 2021

Export finance: year-end review

The export credit agency (ECA) offering has evolved and proved ever resilient in 2021, with yet another buoyant year for the market. But there are still several updates -...

21 December 2021

EXIM Hungary closes most intense year in its 27-year operation

EXIM Hungary upped its lending activity and added new loan schemes to its product suites in 2021, and was also elected to the Berne Union Management Committee. TXF spoke...

09 December 2021

BU AGM: SERV's Suter and SACE's Gambelli talk shop

TXF spoke with Robert Suter, head of international relations & business policy at SERV, and Irene Gambelli, a senior adviser on international relations at SACE, in their...

06 December 2021

TXF Global Trade Report 2021

TXF's global trade report 2021 is available to download now.

25 November 2021
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Renewables

Changhua 1: Taiwan's offshore wind mirrors European holdco finance

The approximately NT$75 billion ($2.67 billion) non-recourse multi-tranche holdco financing backing the acquisition of CDPQ and Cathay Private Equity’s 50% interest in...

24 November 2021

TXF Madrid: Top takeaways

TXF’s top takeaways from the biggest gathering of the export and project finance community in the world, TXF Global 2021, are here.

16 November 2021

Ameropa and Nitron chase payment amid default on Ghana fertilizer deal

Two of the world’s largest fertilizer suppliers are chasing an almost $10 million default from a global reinsurer, in a case that illuminates the perils of using...

10 November 2021
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Power, Renewables

COP-ious pledges to transform climate finance?

COP26 has marked a tectonic shift in the architecture of the global financial system to deliver net zero. But the next NDCs should be sooner than every five years to set...

03 November 2021
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Oil & gas

Case study: Uzbekistan’s GTL project lays foundation for further ECA-backed industrial project financings

The success of the Uzbekneftegaz $3.6 billion GTL (gas-to-liquid) project – launching in early 2022 - paves the way for other major industrial projects in the country....