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12 January 2016

Japanese ECAs break the Ice with geothermal financing

Japan has historically been a major manufacturer of geothermal turbines, boasting a 70% global market share. But an export credit agency (ECA)-backed deal closed last...

11 January 2016

The dirty underbelly of localisation

Localisation requirements in emerging-markets projects are meant to be a way of giving back; an attempt at ensuring a lasting beneficial legacy for the local population...

18 December 2015

Orpic signs contracts for Oman’s $6.4bn Liwa plastics complex

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) has signed agreements to build, operate and finance the $6.4 billion Liwa Plastic Industries Complex (LPIC)...

30 November 2015

Exporters frustrated by uneven local content rules for ECAs

Last month’s TXF conference in Hong Kong provided numerous dynamic interactions between industry members. An interesting discussion during the Exporter’s Idea Lab...

24 November 2015

Banishing the stigma: how securitisation can plug the hole

Adrian Katz, CEO of Finacity, tells TXF’s Ollie Gordon why trade receivables securitisations could well be the answer to the trade finance industry’s leaking capacity.

24 November 2015

Emirates Global Aluminium launches syndication of $4.9bn facilities

UAE-headquartered Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), one of the world’s leading aluminium producers, has launched the syndication for its $4.9 billion corporate facilities....

26 October 2015

Matador extends RCF and reaffirms borrowing base

US-based Matador Resources Company has amended its revolving credit facility to extend the maturity date from December 2016 to October 2020. Matador's lenders...

13 October 2015
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Infrastructure, Power, Transport

TAG’s top 5 dealmakers

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...

12 October 2015

Cooperation in export finance

Michal Ron, managing director, head of international business, SACE, argues that knowledge-sharing and cooperation in the export finance industry is a quick-fire way of...

12 October 2015

The era of trade regulation

Ralph Lerch, chair of the European Banking Federation’s export credit working group, and global head of export finance at Commerzbank, discusses the shifting tectonics of...

12 October 2015

ECA innovations – the Finnvera example

Finland’s Export Guarantee Act was amended in September 2014 to enable export credit agency (ECA) Finnvera to grant guarantees also to large companies in Finland for...

12 October 2015

Risk claims analysis

Maxence Mormède, chief investment officer (CIO) advanced fixed income* at Allianz Global Investors explains the approach taken in assessing and analysing claims and...

12 October 2015

Policy analysis of the Indian ECA

Exporters – large, medium, small or tiny – play a vital role in any economy. Creating a business-friendly environment for these companies to help increase exports is...

12 October 2015

BPO and short-term credit insurance

By Markus Wohlgeschaffen, global head of trade products, UniCredit and member of the banking advisory board, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); and Andre Casterman,...

12 October 2015

TXF launches African export finance conference

Trade & Export Finance (TXF) is to host its first African event aimed at ECA and project financiers this February in Addis Ababa. The two-day event, TXF Africa...

12 October 2015

Sibos 2015: China Systems and Accuity partner on trade finance and supply chain solutions

Accuity, a global provider of payments, KYC, risk and compliance solutions, has partnered with China Systems, the trade finance software solutions vendor, to create a...

21 August 2015

Trade Finance Market platform launches targeting exporters and investors

A new trade platform has launched - Trade Finance Market (TFM) – targeting both exporters and investors. Based out of Singapore, the founders say the platform “enables...

18 August 2015

Credit insurer Euler Hermes launches Euler Hermes Energy in North American market

International credit insurance company Euler Hermes has launched a new division - Euler Hermes Energy. The new division will be North American-based and focus on...

11 August 2015

Strong takes up the reigns as head of CPS Risk at JLT in Chicago

Matthew Strong has moved from the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) offices in London to take up his new position as head of the credit, political and security (CPS)...

10 August 2015

Noble looks to reassure investors with independent PwC reports

Hong Kong-headquartered, commodity trading house Noble Group has today made public the conclusions and results of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) review of Noble's...