Global trade and foreign direct investments have seen dramatic changes in the 80 years since the Berne Union was founded. Not surprisingly, the Berne Union itself has...
Export credit is a tool which has been used for decades to support exports in a world where the main driver of economic growth has been international trade. The need for...
Africa 80 years ago was a much different place. In fact, when the Berne Union was launched, Africa was largely under colonial rule. A few decades later, with independence...
Jonathan Bell presents a case study where a Vietnamese commodity trader – VinaCommodities – secured a bespoke cross-border financing solution that allowed the company to...
China has, and continues to be the leading light as the global end-user of raw commodities. It is the key player. Now in the agri sector China is revealing the country’s...
Jonathan Bell reviews the Rosneft mega-prepayment Deal of the Year 2013.
Vancouver-headquartered, African miner Asanko Gold has agreed terms to amend its existing project debt facility with a special purpose vehicle of RK Mine Finance Trust I...
Glencore Xstrata, one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies, has struck an agreement with a Chinese consortium to sell its entire interest...
Swiss-headquartered commodity trader MRI Trading has mandated ABN AMRO Bank and ING Bank to arrange syndicated loan facilities totaling $110 million for the group.
China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (Cofco) has struck an agreement with Hong Kong-headquartered commodity trading company Noble Group to buy a 51% in...
ABN AMRO has made two hires to strengthen its sector origination capabilities for its energy, commodities and transportation (ECT) clients. The move takes place as the...
Project development company Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) has signed the financing documents amounting to €623 million ($859 million) with a group of financial...
Keaton Energy, the South African coal mining and development company, has concluded a R350 million ($32 million) financing facility from Investec Bank, of which R300...
NOP Agrowind has secured €350 million ($480 million) in loans to construct 26 wind turbines in the Netherlands from a consortium of Rabobank, KfW IPEX-Bank and the...
Standard Chartered (StanChart) Vietnam has signed a $70 million trade facility agreement with An Giang Plant Protection (AGPPS) to allow the agricultural business to...
ING Corporate Bank has named Anthony van Vliet as the new global head trade & commodity finance (T&CF). He takes over from Paul van Heerde who has been in charge since 1...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has approved a $61.1 million direct loan to Inversiones Eolicas de Orosi Dos (Orosi) to support the export of...
Russian metals and mining company Evraz has signed loan agreements with VTB Bank for the development of its Urals iron ore mining operations. The borrower is Evraz’s...
HSBC has appointed Joel Van Dusen as its first global head of large corporates, tasked with shaping HSBC commercial banking’s strategic approach to its biggest domestic...
TXF talks to Citi about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
Senior practitioners of the trade and export finance community will gather at the University of St Gallen this autumn for another edition of IfTI’s Global Symposium. Expect lively debate around case studies and best practices in trade as geopolitical tensions rise.
This year's winners of the TXF Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders, with ESG credentials the running theme across those winning deals.
Since the first announcement of a partnership between Euler Hermes and Trafigura in 2022, European ECAs have built steady relationships with commodity traders. Today, as supply chain dislocation fades and funding demands ease, what role does the ECA-trader deal still have to play?
How do you have a thriving offshore wind export business when you don’t, technically, have an offshore wind industry? Norway’s exporters are finding the answer, and of Norway’s green exports, offshore wind is by far the largest supported by Eksfin. Tone Lunde Bakker, CEO of Eksfin discusses how the restructured agency has been helping support the pivot away from fossil fuels, into wind, marine, onshore aquaculture, to name a few.
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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