One step beyond: New UK trade digitisation legislation on track
Trade digitisation has taken a big step forward globally with the announcement that the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill is on its way to becoming law. What’s the...
Trade digitisation has taken a big step forward globally with the announcement that the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill is on its way to becoming law. What’s the...
There is a need for collective definitions and methodologies to better interpret the multitude of existing sustainable frameworks to apply within export finance. TXF...
With the war in Ukraine about to enter its third month, there is no sign of Russian military aggression abating. At the same time, turning off the gas tap to Poland and...
TXF Intelligence’s third sustainability in export finance report makes clear what export finance professionals active in the market already know. Sustainability is moving...
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...
To celebrate the launch of the events platform, and the fact we are three weeks out from TXF Global Commodity Finance 2022, TXF’s Aife Howse gets the inside scoop from...
Banks are embracing sustainable deals according to results from this year's TXF export finance research survey, but corporates expect a hefty price reduction.
EPC contractors are having to deal with the inflationary ripples from the pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine. It’s 100 years since one attempt was made to reconstruct...
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...
With Indonesia’s newly revised 40GW-plus power procurement plan by 2030, project debt – and ECA support – is higher on PLN’s financing agenda in the wake of the pandemic....
The recent commodity trader rush for emergency liquidity from relationship lenders to meet margin calls has met with a predictable response - credit lines are still open...
Leah Gilbert Morris, Director of International and ECA Relations at Export Development Canada (EDC) and Chair of the BU Climate Working Group on behalf of EDC, discusses...
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...
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...
EU ministers are attempting to update the export finance product offering, with new instruments to better support EU exporters, reforms to the OECD Arrangement and baking...
With EPC and commodity costs rising globally, energy security concerns in Europe and parts of Asia lending added impetus to both short-term LNG and traditional renewables...
The Commodity Finance Data Report 2021, which comprises an in-depth overview of commercial loans in the commodities industry, was published this week. Here are some of...
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....
The Nick Kilhams Foundation (NKF) has been set up in memory of Nick Kilhams, a well-regarded professional in the insurance industry who sadly took his own life. Catherine...
The impact of conflict in Ukraine on the world economy is not difficult to summarise: bad. In the case of Africa, it is much more complicated because of the continent’s...
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?