Helen Castell at TXF talks to some of the world’s largest borrowers about what ECA finance means to them, and why things like fixed-rate financing, long-term framework...
TXF recently caught up with the five most prolific dealmakers on tagmydeals to find out a little bit about them, their favourite deals from the first half of 2015, and...
SWIFT expects to deliver a 57% price reduction on its messaging services by the end of the year - exceeding the original target of 50%. The group started its price...
Belgium-based SWIFT has launched a new analytics service, Watch Banking Analytics Premium. It will provide customers with more analysis of their payments and...
Ethiopia is becoming a shareholder in the African Trade Insurance Agency with a $7.5 million loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for the subscription fee....
Colorado-based exploration and production operator Emerald Oil has revealed that the borrowing base under its revolving credit facility has dropped from $200 million...
Accuity and trade finance solutions vendor China Systems have teamed up to create a SWIFT-certified Trade and Supply Chain Finance product. Accuity’s Compliance...
The trade finance relationship between Deutsche Bank and Ecobank Nigeria will be expanded after they announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU)....
Swiss-based commodity trader Glencore is to sell copper mines in Australia and Chile in a bid to reduce its debt burden. It revealed plans to sell the wholly-owned...
Daniel Riordan reviews the risks facing insurers in 2015 and highlights how the Berne Union is adapting to help its members
Berne Union: Totals
Berne Union: Short-Term Export Credit Insurance
Berne Union: Medium/Long-Term Export Credit Insurance and Lending
Berne Union: Investment Insurance
Volumes of export credit and investment insurance reported for 2014 by members of the Berne Union and Prague Club increased by 4% to reach a total amount of $2 trillion.
State export credit agencies (ECAs) make a substantial contribution towards boosting exports, along with growth and prosperity, in emerging and developing countries. In...
Michal Ron, managing director, head of international business, SACE, argues that knowledge-sharing and cooperation in the export finance industry is a quick-fire way of...
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...
As part of the 2015 Berne Union and Prague Club Spring Meeting held in Florence, Italy, and hosted by SACE, a CEO panel was held to discuss members’ various perspectives...
EKF, Denmark’s export credit agency, knows from experience with small and medium- sized enterprises that they are an increasingly important sector of the economy and that...
The Trump administration’s capture of Nicolás Maduro was in part designed to create opportunities for US players in Venezuela’s oil sector. But both the short-term and long-term challenges to investing in the country’s heavy oil reserves are immense.
Seung-Hoon Lee is now head of Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim’s) investment finance team, having recently been director of the new development finance team in the agency’s economic development promotion department. He discusses the agency’s new emphasis on direct equity investment in companies and project funds. How will this affect its longer term finance offering, support export credit, and also its development finance strategy?
TXF spoke with Cenk Olcay Seran, director of international development at ECC, to outline the EPC contractor's global footprint, from structuring DFI and ECA-backed debt for renewable projects in the Middle East to working with Ukraine’s government to mobilise private investment to its energy sector.
A one-day senior-level event launching the release of full year 2025 export, commodity, project and development finance data reports from TXF, Proximo and Uxolo.
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Full-year 2025 export, commodity, project and development finance data from TXF, Proximo and Uxolo, discussed at a senior-level, one-day event.
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