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16 June 2015

UKEF and Falcon partner for British exports

Specialist trade and corporate financier Falcon Group has signed a memorandum of understanding with British export credit agency (ECA) UK Export Finance (UKEF) with the...

12 June 2015

All hail… the TXF Best in Class

June is a month that is always jam-packed with highly-publicised sporting accomplishments. With leagues and tournaments of every variety coming to a climatic end in the...

29 May 2015

Jumping hurdles: Sprint’s ECA trifecta

BEST AMERICAS ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon assesses the structuring that was required to deliver success for the Sprint telecoms financing in the US.

28 May 2015

ERC: connecting Ethiopia with a benchmark financing

BEST AFRICAN ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon examines the details of ERC’s Awash-Weldia/Hara Gebeya Railway project in Ethiopia.

28 May 2015

KIPP: truly out of Africa

BEST DFI DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon discovers how agencies and banks worked together to develop the unique financing structure for the KIPP power plant financing in...

26 May 2015

Introducing… the TXF Chronicle

As with any given seven-day period in the modern age of news reportage, last week was chock-a-block full of current affairs shockers, geopolitical wranglings, cyclical...

14 May 2015

BBVA welcomes new head of global trade finance

Spanish bank BBVA has appointed Francisco Javier Fernández de Trocóniz as its new head of global trade finance & international financial institutions, replacing the...

30 April 2015

Democrats mobilise to force vote on US Ex-Im reauthorisation

The US’ House of Democrats today set in motion a process to bypass the House Republican leadership that would force a vote on legislation to the extend the charter of the...

22 April 2015

Schmand to take helm at ICC Banking Commission

The International Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business organisation, has today named Deutsche Bank’s Daniel Schmand as the new chair of its Banking...

16 April 2015

Investment firms provide shot in the arm for PrimeRevenue

PrimeRevenue, the provider of SaaS-based working capital finance solutions, has completed a $80 million financing round co-led by BBH Capital Partners, a private equity...

16 April 2015

NAB debuts Bolero ePresentation into India

National Australia Bank has inaugurated the world’s first electronic presentation of documents (ePresentation) into India sent over Bolero’s digital trade finance...

14 April 2015

GE to offload most of GE Capital as regulations hit home

US multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) has announced it will sell off the bulk of assets in its sprawling financial arm GE Capital by 2018, as it looks to...

09 April 2015

Uralkali set to defy odds with PXF by month’s end

Russian potash producer Uralkali looks set to wrap up a new pre-export finance (PXF) facility by the end of April, TXF has learnt.

02 April 2015

SocGen, US Ex-Im team up for Cameroon water project

French bank Société Générale (SocGen) has joined forces with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) to finance the development of an emergency water...

31 March 2015

ICC/TXF launch Export Finance Global Survey 2015

Following on from the success of the 2014 debut Export Finance Global Survey, TXF and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have teamed up once more to produce the...

30 March 2015

Update: Emirates set to close UKEF-backed sukuk

Emirates, the Dubai-based airline, is set to wrap up its much-anticipated sukuk guaranteed by British export credit agency (ECA) UK Export Finance (UKEF), after...

24 March 2015

Eyres takes reins of UKEF’s direct lending facility

British export credit agency (ECA) UK Export Finance (UKEF) today confirmed the appointment of export finance grandee Margaret Eyres to the newly-created role of head of...

24 March 2015

Update: Emirates sets guidance on UKEF-backed sukuk

Dubai-based airline Emirates has set the initial price guidance on its mooted $913 million sukuk – Islamic bond – guaranteed by the British export credit agency UK Export...

23 March 2015

Update: JP Morgan arranges US Ex-Im’s ViaSat deal

JP Morgan acted as the arranger of last week’s $525 million direct loan provided by the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) to ViaSat Technologies, TXF can...

23 March 2015

UKEF makes $1.75bn available to Kazakh government

British export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF) has made available close to $2 billion to the government of Kazakhstan to fund the import of a wide range of...