With development of the EU Strategy on Export Credits underway, and longstanding debate over OECD Arrangement reform deserving of the label inert gas, are the OECD’s...
The LME has decided not to ban Russian metals. Is it the right move or tacit recognition that the pressures on commodities markets spawned by war, growing demand for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
Tobias Behringer, head of finance advisory, Siemens Financial Services, discusses his role in the transformed Siemens organisation as part of the connective tissue for banks, ECAs, and MDBs. He’s got a zeal for mobility projects, particularly sustainable ones, and the role of equity investments through SFS too. What will shift the needle for longer tenor financing in sustainable infra projects? Should ECAs cover technology risk (spoiler, the answer is yes)?
STX Group has closed a repeat of its pioneering 2023 environmental commodities borrowing base deal – and it is bigger, bolder and has more banks. How did the trader overcome risk perceptions, a knowledge gap and widespread concerns around greenwashing to reach financial close?
There was a clear mantra echoing through the conference plenary room at Exile Asia: Agency, Energy and Infrastructure Finance last week. Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration.
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TXF returns to Geneva November 2024, this time with a first-of-its-kind networking extravaganza! Connect with the industry with pre-arranged meetings and a spontaneous cocktail reception.
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