TXF talks to Makiko Toyoda and Jessica Schnabel, the women who are spearheading the development of IFC’s latest initiative to raise access to trade finance for...

SWIFT has enhanced its global payments innovation (gpi) service for corporates, it announced today. Multi-banked corporates will now be able to initiate and track...

In the first of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about where we are now with trade...

Despite some of the legal challenges taking place in the US, financiers can be expected to remain committed to the huge volume of hydrocarbons financing which will take...

In the age of ‘clean and green’ there is a growing need to develop rail transport links globally. And on the African continent some recent rail projects show that...

The decision to maintain oil production cuts, and by so doing the market price, is a clear reflection of the impact of the US-China trade wars. Jonathan Bell assesses the...

Jonathan Yellen, head of Mizuho’s power and infrastructure project finance team in the Americas since late 2017, has departed the bank. Yellen, who has also held...

The Chief Executive officer of Ghana Export-Import Bank, (GEXIM), Lawrence Agyinsam, has been elected as the president of the Global Network of Export-import Banks and...

BELLIN, a provider of treasury software and services, has successfully integrated SWIFT gpi for Corporates (g4C) in its tm5 treasury management system and completed the...

Dentons Boekel has strengthened its Banking and Finance practice in Amsterdam with the recruitment of Jacqueline Bell as a partner. She joined the Firm on 1 June.Bell is...

African power generation is still dominated by a mix of hydro and coal, but renewables are finding good purchase in almost every country and at increasingly affordable...

Vancouver-headquartered Lithium Americas Corp has announced that Tom Hodgson has retired as Chief Executive Officer and Director. The board has appointed Jonathan...

As the shipbuilding industry in Norway transitions, so the government support appears well-placed to back new developments. However, in the case of finance for a...

Travers Smith LLP has promoted corporate finance lawyer Jonathan Walters to its partnership, with effect from 1 July 2019. His practice focuses on advising infrastructure...

Now that SWIFT’s Trade Services Utility (TSU), the matching application that underpinned the Bank Payment Obligation, is on its way out, the wiring of trade finance needs...

Philippe Mills, chief executive officer of SFIL, the French public development bank, talks to Jonathan Bell about how the French agency is making a difference on the...

The defeat of Daesh in Syria and Iraq can hopefully provide greater impetus to new business in Iraq. What is critical now is consolidation of security for the rebuilding...

Local municipalities in Lorraine – along with the Grand Est region and national navigation agency VNF – have launched the tender for a PPP concession to...

Back in 2014 TXF hosted an export finance filmed webinar with participants assessing both the state of the industry then and how it might be in 2019. Jonathan Bell...

Bids are in for France's third round offshore wind tender – the 600MW Dunkirk project which will be the first under the new CfD regime. Will lenders feel comfortable with...