In this three part series, Exile Group CEO Dan Sheriff speaks to Gabriel Buck, Founder & Managing Director, GKB Ventures and Chris Leeds, Senior Consultant at UKEF, on the ghosts of export finance past, present, and future. In our first episode, guests reminisce about some of the exciting transactions they were part of in the 1990s, considering how yesterday’s landscape encouraged more innovative deals.

The walled city of Dubrovnik is a fitting setting to a resilience-themed Berne Union Spring meeting hosted by HBOR, Croatia’s export credit agency. TXF spoke to Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne Union and Hrvoje Čuvalo, HBOR’s President of the Management Board, about their reflections on resilience at the event, and the role of BU as a guardian of international trade.

TXF spoke with Hiroke Sekine, managing executive officer, global head of infrastructure and environment finance group at JBIC to discuss how the Japanese ECA is broadening its mandate and accelerating support for breakthrough innovations in geothermal, solar, digital infrastructure, and next-generation nuclear.