The ability of small and medium-sized enterprises to manage working capital is not being supported effectively by their banks, a survey shows. The digitisation of...
Stone Energy - the US-based oil and natural gas exploration and production group - has revealed the borrowing base under its bank credit facility has been reaffirmed...
Hong Kong-based commodity trading house Noble Group is selling stockpiles of aluminium - historically one of its biggest businesses - in a bid to free up capital. The...
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) has signed up for SWIFT's Compliance Analytics to help mitigate financial crime risk and cost. The service "highlights...
Helen Castell at TXF talks to Bob Kowit, a member of the trade finance team at Federated Investors, about the challenges involved in creating a pool of trade finance...
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.
TXF spoke with PuiYin Tham, vice president of business development at Marubeni to outline the benefits of taking the ECA funding route and how the Japanese developer’s deal pipeline is shaping up in the APAC region.
Andy Bagus, senior vice-president treasury and strategic finance, at Indonesia’s national oil company Pertamina discusses project and export finance strategy amid a volatile global market. He views his role like being an air traffic controller.
Åke Nordlander, director general at EKN discusses strategy in his new role, the increased prominence of defence, which now forms the largest part of the Swedish ECA’s cover. He’s also piloting new forms of cover that have an element of development finance with them, while continuing work on transition energy deals and interesting rail infra projects.
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Connecting the Middle East and Africa. Step into the vibrant world of trade, agency and project finance at Exile’s (TXF, Proximo and Uxolo) MEA 2026.
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