Anti US Ex-Im comments from the US is nothing new over the past couple of years, but the latest anti-blast coming from the Wall Street Journal is just plain wrong....
The second restructuring of Glencore’s pre-pay deal with SHT, combined with more deal volume and the increasingly risky markets traders are financing, is flagging up the...
Systemic risk - not yet. But as more of the commodities market becomes concentrated in the hand of a few large traders, are bank exposure limits a workable buffer to an...
TXF joins the front line with Rebecca Harding co-author of ‘Trade Wars – how trade is being ‘weaponised’ to discuss the theory and narrative behind the book.
Peter Luketa, former global head of export finance at HSBC, led one of the most successful teams within the export finance sector. With 20 years of ECA-backed lending...
Uruguay is the MacGyver of clean energy development. Equipped with just some pocket change from the UN’s climate fund, the country has become a global standard-bearer for...
Changes in Chinese foreign exchange regulations could be set to attract new international banks and domestic borrowers to the offshore financing space. And after years of...
Jonathan Bell talks with Anthony Palmer about his 41 years in the credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) market, the key events that have shaped its development, and...
We are looking for the most innovative, market influencing transactions within trade, commodity, ECA/DFI-backed and project financing.
In a triumph for Bangladeshi project financing, agencies and private companies have come together to secure the financing for the Sirajganj BOOT power project, which will...
The Berne Union’s secretary general, Kai Preugschat, is leaving the organisation to take up a high-level position within the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila,...
The Chinese government’s change in rules dealing with foreign investment offshore could see an increase in international bank financing in the country. Fangyuan Group’s...
In a ground-breaking transaction for Ghana, HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank have issued a $500 million stand-by letter of credit on behalf of Ghana National Petroleum...
Russia’s Norilsk Nickel has signed a five-year $500 million committed revolving back-stop credit facility (RCF) with a group of international banks. The transaction is on...
One of the key themes to come out of the recent ITFA conference held in Warsaw was the increasing importance of the role of distribution and syndication within trade to...
The UK government introduced dramatic cuts to renewable energy subsidies in August, just a month before Finland's ECA, Finnvera, closed a £100 million financing for the...
Mizuho Bank has boosted its team in the EMEA region with the hire of Tim Lamey as head of export and structured trade finance, EMEA. The appointment will give Mizuho a...
SMBC has reorganised its structured trade and commodity finance (STCF) groups in London within its global trade finance department. As part of the reorganisation it is...
Summer in the northern hemisphere is usually a slow period for export credit agency (ECA) and DFI-backed financing, but this year I can’t help noticing that it is one of...
HSBC has appointed Beatriz Monteagudo as head of the transaction management unit joining the global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) business in Mexico.
TXF spoke with Darren Chua, head of M&A and Commercial at PT Asian Bulk Logistics to find out why ECA support is less competitive for the firm on projects and what exposures and investments are on its books.
Tobias Behringer, head of finance advisory, Siemens Financial Services, discusses his role in the transformed Siemens organisation as part of the connective tissue for banks, ECAs, and MDBs. He’s got a zeal for mobility projects, particularly sustainable ones, and the role of equity investments through SFS too. What will shift the needle for longer tenor financing in sustainable infra projects? Should ECAs cover technology risk (spoiler, the answer is yes)?
STX Group has closed a repeat of its pioneering 2023 environmental commodities borrowing base deal – and it is bigger, bolder and has more banks. How did the trader overcome risk perceptions, a knowledge gap and widespread concerns around greenwashing to reach financial close?
There was a clear mantra echoing through the conference plenary room at Exile Asia: Agency, Energy and Infrastructure Finance last week. Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration.
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TXF returns to Geneva November 2024, this time with a first-of-its-kind networking extravaganza! Connect with the industry with pre-arranged meetings and a spontaneous cocktail reception.
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