SMEs are the engine behind Africa’s trade growth – but funding is scarce. Kofi Adomakoh, head of bank guarantees and special finance at Afreximbank, outlines the bank’s...

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan to open up its economy to private investment is progressing – albeit slowly. But while PPP development in the centralised state was always...

Improved metals pricing is incentivising miners in Latin America to take mothballed projects back into development. But environmental opposition, labour disputes and...

With the United States' first wave of economic sanctions on Iran already having a heavy impact on the Iranian economy, Jonathan Bell looks at how this will also affect...

As North American risks continue to rise as President Donald Trump undermines NAFTA members with tariffs on iron and steel, the EU remains divided over the issue of...

The ICC has established a working group aimed at fostering a greater sustainable development agenda in export finance. Is it just tinkering? And does it have any chance...

TXF’s Best ECA-backed renewables deal of the year, Global Infrastructure Partners' (GIP) EKF-backed acquisition loan for a stake in the Hornsea 1 offshore wind project in...

Winning TXF’s Energy Finance Deal of the Year, Neptune's $2 billion transaction represented the largest reserve-based lending facility raised for an acquisition in the...

Can structured trade finance still be used? Geoffrey Wynne, Partner at Sullivan & Worcester UK LLP in London, and head of the trade and export finance practice explores...

With President Trump’s protectionist push straining US trade relationships between Canada, Mexico, and China, Russia’s support of the Syrian regime threatening a broader...

Sponsors of the Nam Theun 1 hydro project in Laos closed a tightly priced ECA-backed facility last month. The deal, which took three years from start to finish, has...

Since the CDP-SACE-SIMEST restructuring in 2012, SACE has transformed from tired state relic into one of the world’s leading providers of export credit cover. It has the...

Sanjeev Gupta is the man behind the ascent of Liberty House from commodity trading start-up into an international metals and industrials group. And in conversation with...

The latest revisions to Basel III are generally good news for banks. But they’ll still have to do more to manage their project finance loan books.

This year’s British Exporters Association (BExA) UKEF benchmarking report - 'Exporting is not the new black' - scores the ECA an impressive 9/10. However, the report is...

ECA borrowing in Russia was down by nearly 70% in H1 2017 as compared to H1 2016, but many people remain optimistic about opportunities for export finance in Russia going...

In a recent speech, Dr Benedict Oramah, president of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), outlined plans to seize upon continental political will,...

Despite progress last year, key clauses in the Capital Requirement Regulation Leverage Ratio (CRR LR) regime still threaten to hit the availability and cost of European...

Despite a steady rise in global oil prices and a halt to disruptive attacks on oil infrastructure in the Niger Delta, Nigeria’s economic outlook is unlikely to improve in...

The export finance community can begin to breathe a sigh of relief after the EU Commission this week proposed several amendments to the CRD 4 and CRR rules, which if...