TXF Global 2026: A wider ECA umbrella
The next phase of export, agency, and project finance will be defined by strategic collaboration, regulatory modernisation, and a broader ECA mandate. Here are the main...
The next phase of export, agency, and project finance will be defined by strategic collaboration, regulatory modernisation, and a broader ECA mandate. Here are the main...
Will ECAs be able to sustain the bumper volumes of recent years in 2026? Expect a dip as financial institutions build their pipelines once again. Yet ECAs are determined...
TXF Intelligence’s sixth Sustainability in Export Finance Data Report shows sustainable export finance reached its highest recorded volume in 2025. But those figures came...
TXF was pleased to present Sian Aspinall with a lifetime achievement award for her contribution to the commodity finance industry at the 2026 edition of the TXF Global...
The Future of Export Finance (FEX) network continues to expand its international footprint, with chapters across Finland, the UK, France, the GCC, the Netherlands and...
Another commodity trading house is set to announce financing support from an export credit agency. ECA-trader partnerships may not dominate market volumes, but dealmaking...
SME EPC contractors may lack the scale and track record of the industry’s traditional heavyweights, but in emerging market infrastructure they are becoming too important...
Defence has emerged as a priority sector in the export and development finance communities, though the legal and compliance considerations should not be ignored. By Mark...
Stefan Reisacher, CEO of EPC contractor Linxon, discusses how to work with ECAs in challenging conditions. Contractors need to improve communications with sub-suppliers -...
TXF spoke with Sang-Jin Ju, KEXIM’s executive director of project finance, to outline the ECA’s activity and how its adapting support to Korean EPCs in overseas PPP...
The word is out: TXF's Perfect 10 Commodity Finance Deals of the Year have been revealed. 2025 has shown that the best deals often come in smaller packages. This year's...
Cocoa prices have returned to historical averages but the threat of volatility remains, and national regulators are still managing the fallout. Ghana’s Cocobod has...
Seung-Hoon Lee is now head of Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim’s) investment finance team, having recently been director of the new development finance team in the...
The Trump administration’s capture of Nicolás Maduro was in part designed to create opportunities for US players in Venezuela’s oil sector. But both the short-term and...
Laura Galvin, JP Morgan’s new head of export and agency finance, talks to TXF about her priorities in a changing market, particularly amid the bank’s own $1.5 trillion...
Tim Reid, CEO of UK Export Finance (UKEF) focuses on what’s changed, and what’s stayed the same against a backdrop of uncertainty for exporters. Defence, cyber, SMEs,...
New nuclear’s construction risk and development timelines have made it difficult to bank – until now. The RAB revenue model means that Sizewell C’s funding package...
The 2025 edition of TXF’s annual Commodity Finance Research Report is now available. It reflects the views of a market that has been bruised by disruptions to trade:...
Todd Winterhalt, senior vice-president of international markets at Export Development Canada (EDC), discusses EDC’s role in Canada’s market diversification at Berne...
Åke Nordlander, director general at EKN discusses strategy in his new role, the increased prominence of defence, which now forms the largest part of the Swedish ECA’s...
Long tenors remain the scarce commodity in Sub-Saharan social infrastructure. But Mitrelli has reached financial close on a 19-year Atradius-backed loan for the Katyavala Bwila University (KBU) expansion in Angola — a structure that shows how ECA cover can push out the tenor envelope for education infrastructure on the continent.