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...

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...

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)...

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

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.

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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