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...

There is little doubt about the stabilising function of Export Credit Agency-backed export finance for exports during crisis times as the post-2008 renaissance...

Doug Schoch, vice president of Captive Business at Siemens, talks to TXF's managing director Dan Sheriff about Siemens' supply chain finance programme and the direction...

Tom Nelthorpe discusses whether China, Russia and Mongolia can work with a small coal mine developer to make a greenfield rail project a reality.

Commerzbank has expanded and repositioned its export finance department in order to become an even bigger player in the ECA market, as Africa and Russia look set to...

Australia's Hornsdale Wind Farm secured financing with a club loan of A$173.5 million from KfW IPEX-Bank and Société Générale for the project’s second stage of...

The Angolan Development Bank has received a $109m from JBIC and SMBC to finance the construction of a submarine fibre optic cable connecting Angola with Brazil. It will...

UK Export Finance’s chief executive, Louis Taylor, tells TXF how the export credit agency is broadening its product suite to offer more support to UK exporters.

Despite offering new products and services to exporters, the British government is struggling to combat the country’s record £125 billion trade gap.

Ralph Lerch, chair of the European Banking Federation’s export credit working group, and global head of export finance at Commerzbank, discusses the shifting tectonics of...

After five years of negotiations, agreement has been reached today in Atlanta on the far-reaching Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The TPP – an agreement...

Charles Berry, chairman of specialist insurance broker BPL Global, argues that as exporters and banks now often have a choice between ECA and private-sector cover, ECAs...