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29 March 2021

Guest opinion: Post-Greensill - pondering the rise and fall of ponderables

Peter Lugli, a supply chain finance expert and a veteran of Ariba, Amazon Business and Prime Revenue, takes a closer look at the financial engineering employed by...

25 March 2021
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Oil & gas

US Exim not exposed to Greensill Capital amid Freeport LNG deal

US Exim has confirmed it has no exposure to collapsed firm Greensill Capital just three months after the ECA announced it had signed off on an enhanced guarantee...

25 March 2021

Looking for the commodity finance upside

So many negative stories have hit the commodity finance sector through the past year. But it is definitely not all doom and gloom, as the big traders get stronger and the...

25 March 2021

US Ex-Im announces key staff appointments

The Export-Import Bank of the United States has unveiled several key appointments to senior staff positions.Hazeen Ashby has been named Senior Vice President for...

09 March 2021

Women in commodities: A work in progress

In honour of International Women’s Day on Monday, TXF takes a look at how gender imbalance within the commodity finance industry is being challenged, from bank diversity...

08 March 2021
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Oil & gas

Assiut expansion: Egypt’s bank-to-bank benchmark

Egypt’s $2.8 billion Assiut oil refinery expansion project is due to close an ECA-backed loan this year after pandemic-related delays to the deal. The project sponsor...

03 March 2021

Baker Botts hires two partners from Winston & Strawn

International law firm Baker Botts has added two partners from Winston & Strawn to its Washington, DC Office.Michael Yuffee has joined the Energy Regulatory Section...

02 March 2021
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Renewables

Ormat issues statement on Hindenburg claims

Geothermal energy company Ormat Technologies (ORA) has issued a statement in response to claims made by Hindenburg Research. ORA believes those claims are motivated by...

25 February 2021

Goldman's global head of commodities finance is retiring

Goldman Sachs Group's global head of commodities finance solutions, Colleen Foster, is retiring after more than two decades with the firm working for both the...

11 February 2021

SRG buys trade credit specialist The Channel Partnership

London-based Specialist Risk Group (SRG) has announced the acquisition of UK trade credit specialist, The Channel Partnership.Based in Bristol, The Channel...

10 February 2021

UK-EU TCA: The Brexit divorce papers continued

The signing of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) marks the first major deal for the UK with a regional trade bloc since its withdrawal from the European...

03 February 2021
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Infrastructure

Alabama signs lease agreements for 2 new prisons

The Alabama Governor has signed lease agreements for two new men’s correctional facilities to be constructed by a CoreCivic-led team including Caddell Construction,...

03 February 2021

DFC unveils new members of Biden-Harris administration leadership

The US International Development Finance Corporation has unveiled new members of the agency’s leadership team, including DFC’s new Chief Operating Officer,...

28 January 2021

CRIF integrates, invests in trade finance blockchain we.trade

Blockchain trade finance firm we.trade is to integrate with Italy’s CRIF Skyminder services, with CRIF becoming a shareholder alongside existing investors IBM and...

25 January 2021
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Oil & gas

BP cuts oil exploration team as climate change-driven reorganisation continues

Oil major BP has drastically cut its fossil fuel exploration team in an attempt to keep up with the fast-moving revolution focused around renewables and climate...

20 January 2021

Fiserv unveils executive leadership hires

Fiserv, a US-based provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, has announced executive leadership appointments for two newly created positions.Byron...

11 January 2021
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Transport

EasyJet secures UKEF-backed $1.87bn loan

British airline easyJet has signed a new five-year loan facility of $1.87 billion, backed by a partial guarantee from UK Export Finance, helping to ease concerns about...

04 January 2021

Luke Lindberg appointed US Ex-Im Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer

The Export-Import Bank of the United States has appointed Luke Lindberg as Chief of Staff and Chief Strategy Officer. Lindberg previously served as US Ex-Im Senior...

16 December 2020

New SCF for the new normal in emerging markets

In a discussion supported by Finverity, TXF looks at new ways for companies to effectively use digitisation in emerging markets to propel access to financing for...

15 December 2020
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Infrastructure

CDB finances schools improvement project in St Vincent and the Grenadines

Students and staff at nine schools across St Vincent and the Grenadines can look forward to new and improved facilities under a major schools’ improvement project...