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10 November 2022

Credit Agricole’s Imad Urf on 30 years in export finance

Imad Urf, head of international trade and transaction banking at Credit Agricole, joined TXF CEO Dan Sheriff to reflect on 30 years spent in export finance, with his...

02 November 2022

TXF Dealmakers Assembly 2022: The takeaways

The TXF Dealmakers Assembly is a new event designed to facilitate networking and deal origination. Last week, the first ever edition was held in Berlin. With geopolitical...

20 October 2022
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Metals and Mining, Power, Renewables

Untied commodity lending: A critical ECA space

The rise of untied lending in the export finance market has been apparent in recent years. But, given the role metals and critical minerals are playing in accelerating...

05 October 2022

Bridging the centuries of navigating and financing trade at ITFA Porto

The heady history of port helped marry tradition and innovation at ITFA’s in person annual trade finance event in Porto. TXF’s Katharine Morton kept her feet steady while...

27 September 2022
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Metals and Mining, Transport

An eternal ECA evolution

ECAs have played a crucial role in supporting global trade over the course of the pandemic. Now, as exporters and buyers search for a new normal, they will need to step...

26 September 2022
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Power, Renewables

Keynote: Nikol of Siemens Financial Services on facing the challenges of 2022

From regulatory developments in the ESG reporting space to the imperative for reform to the OECD Consensus, Ralph Nikol, senior director of ECAs and investment guarantees...

14 September 2022

The paperless papers

Further details on the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill (ETD) have emerged following a briefing last week in advance of the bill’s entry to Parliament. Will this new...

06 September 2022
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Oil & gas

Where's the bank balance in commodity trader lending?

The divide between access to bank liquidity and cost of debt for first and lower tier traders is widening and becoming an existential problem for the latter. If market...

05 September 2022

Ralph LaRossa becomes CEO of PSEG

PSEG has promoted Ralph LaRossa to president and chief executive officer as part of a planned leadership succession process. He also joins the boards of PSEG and...

09 May 2022
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Infrastructure

Kingstown port upgrade project moves to construction phase

The beginning of the construction phase of the Port Modernisation Project in Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, has begun with the signing of a deal between the...

19 January 2022

DZ Bank expands export finance team

Germany’s DZ Bank has been expanding its export finance team with the most recent hire being Fabio Bonardi. He is based in Frankfurt and reports directly to Ralph...

03 March 2021

DZ Bank hires Corinna Erdmann to strengthen export finance team

DZ Bank has announced that Corinna Erdmann has joined as a Senior Manager Export Finance in the Frankfurt office.Erdmann was previously VP at KfW IPEX in the power, water...

05 August 2020
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Power, Renewables

PSEG evaluating strategic alternatives for non-nuclear fleet

Public Service Enterprise Group (PEG) is exploring strategic alternatives for PSEG Power’s non-nuclear generating fleet. It has 6.75GW of fossil generation located...

20 March 2020

AMP Capital makes four senior promotions

AMP Capital has made four promotions within the global Infrastructure Debt team. Spencer Ivey and Roopa Murthy become partners in the New York and London offices...

12 March 2020
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Power, Renewables

Virginia passes Clean economy Act

The Virginia General Assembly has passed HB 1526, the Virginia Clean Economy Act, a bill that calls for the state to use 100% zero-emission electricity by 2050. The...

27 February 2020

The great project debt puzzle

The aspirations of the EU Green Deal and the bloc's adoption of CRD IV are contradictions that leave lenders and borrowers confused - and more significantly a potential...

08 October 2019
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Renewables

Virginia issues permits for four solar projects

Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality has issued permits for the development and operation of four new solar plants across the state. The four projects...

10 January 2019
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Power

Red Oak: Switching cost of debt in US power

Morgan Stanley Infrastructure’s recent refinancing of the Red Oak power plant took the asset out of the bond market and into the bank market via a ‘hedge toggle’...

12 December 2018

Petit to join Investec project finance team

Frederic Petit is to join Investec’s project finance department on January 3 as the company looks to build its presence in the Americas. Petit has spent over 12...

21 August 2018
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Metals and Mining

Multi-sourcing: Latin miners shop around for debt

Improved metals pricing is incentivising miners in Latin America to take mothballed projects back into development. But environmental opposition, labour disputes and...