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23 March 2018
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

The rise and rise of Liberty House

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...

25 January 2018

Time for more Basel-friendly project loan CLOs?

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.

29 November 2017

Exporting UK PLC

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...

22 November 2017

Will investor confidence in Russia rise next year?

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...

25 October 2017

Oramah: Making Africa great again

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

05 April 2017

Getting the balance right: EBF advocating wider ECA exemptions to leverage ratios

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...

29 November 2016

Nigeria's economic outlook for 2017

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...

25 November 2016

EU proposal amends CRD 4 and CRR rules

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...

10 November 2016

The era of regulation – part two

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...

20 October 2016

Siemens’ Doug Schoch talks supply chain finance

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...

19 September 2016

Will Aspire Mining’s Northern Railway put flesh on the bones of One Belt, One Road?

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

16 August 2016

Commerzbank expands export finance team to meet ‘growth’

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...

30 June 2016

Hornsdale's $173.5m project financing propels Australia towards renewables target

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...

07 April 2016
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Telecoms and Communications

JBIC backs first South Atlantic telecoms cable

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...

15 March 2016

ECA Interview: UKEF sharpens its tools

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.

17 February 2016

‘Disappointing’ trade figures cast doubt on UK export strategy

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

12 October 2015

The era of trade regulation

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...

05 October 2015

Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement finally reached

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...

15 September 2015

Why the ECAs should carry on competing with the private-insurance market

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...

01 September 2015

Adesina sworn in as new president of African Development Bank

Former Nigerian agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina, has today been formally sworn in as the new president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) at a ceremony...