TXF examines the dominant role development banks and export credit agencies (ECAs) now have in mining project finance as depressed commodity prices force miners to seek...

Swiss-based commodity trader Glencore's credit rating has been cut by Standard & Poor's to a notch above junk status. The credit ratings firm cited fresh...

Japan is set to join the scramble for business with Iran by signing an investment treaty with the country now that international sanctions have been lifted. The treaty...

Patrick Pouyanne, chairman and chief executive officer of Total, and Spencer Dale, BP's group chief economist, will both talk at the International Petroleum (IP)...

EKF, Denmark's export credit agency, is ready to provide guarantees covering Danish exports to Iran. It will initially cover "letters of credit and other...

Royal Bank of Scotland has called off a planned sale of its India banking business and will instead look at options including winding it down. The India operations of...

The Nigerian Export-Import Bank has received a $1.52 billion export stimulation fund from the country's central bank, managing director Robert Orya revealed.

One of the largest multinational trade pacts in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), was officially signed today in Auckland, New Zealand by ministers of its 12...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) are part of a consortium which has issued a $341 million...

Swiss-headquartered Glencore needs its commodities-trading division to help offset its sluggish mining unit, according to Standard & Poor's (S&P). The...

Export Development Canada (EDC) has announced a previously dispersed CAD 4 million in financing for Exo-s, a Quebec-based supplier of molded plastic parts primarily...

US law firm King & Spalding has hired transportation finance lawyer Christopher Buchanan as a partner with the finance practice. He has experience of counselling...

Solutions provider D+H has integrated blockchain distributed ledger technology into its global payments services hub. Banks will be able to move money in real-time and...

Iran and South Korea are set to boost bilateral trade based on the Korean won. Tehran and Seoul will keep the current won-based settlement system, while seeking an...

Equant Analytics, a new fintech and advisory business, has published a report evidencing $2.1 trillion of missing global trade. Its co-founders, Dr Rebecca Harding and...

US-based Skuchain is creating blockchain-based products for B2B trade finance and supply chain finance in a bid to address the $18 trillion global trade finance market...

Three years ago today, on a 4th February much colder than this one, in the dark depths of Deptford,  the embryonic form of what would become TXF and tagmydeals...

Higher base rates are likely to drastically change the economics for project and infrastructure financings. TXF argues that both debt and equity yields on projects could...

Hong Ky-ttack, head of the Korea Development Bank (KDB), has been appointed a vice president of the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). He will...

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) is providing $370 million to finance a Liwa petrochemical project in Oman. The contract for the project was awarded to South...