Prague Exile Global 2026 was magical. TXF asked 13 of the ECA and DFI leaders on the hotseat a variant on the question: “If you had a magic wand, what one change would...

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...

The EIB is anchoring another major DFI-ECA package for a major European energy transition project. Can it succeed where earlier complex mega-projects have struggled?

Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne Union and senior general manager, international strategic policy, at Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) discusses the...

The weightings that the Basel 4 framework assigns to private credit insurance are too harsh. They risk constraining the flow of capital to sustainable investments in...

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...

The fourth edition of the UN International Conference on Financing for Development at last recognised the role played by ECAs in development. Momentum is building around...

Hrvoje Čuvalo, President of the Management Board of the Croatian Bank of Reconstruction and Development, HBOR, and host of the Berne Union’s Spring Meeting in Dubrovnik,...

The walled city of Dubrovnik is a fitting setting to a resilience-themed Berne Union Spring meeting hosted by HBOR, Croatia’s export credit agency. TXF spoke to Yuichiro...

Andreas Back, senior manager, financial services, at Finnish energy and marine technology company, Wärtsilä, reflects on ECA-backed projects in the new global macro and...

In February the Berne Union and the ICC convened a meeting of export finance practitioners to discuss the future of sustainability in the industry. The key message? A...

Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne Union and general manager, international and strategic policy, at Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), explains his...

Europe’s gigafactory bubble is bursting with battery makers Northvolt and ACC halting schemes amid waning demand for EVs. With project sponsors reviewing business models...

Lila Granda talks strategy in her first interview since her appointment as head of political risk & credit, and Vantage Risk Companies’ admission to Berne Union as full...

The Cedar LNG project forms part of a burgeoning pipeline of Canadian LNG projects looking to take advantage of strong demand for LNG imports from several Asian markets....

Trade financiers are taking a more conservative approach to lending to the increasingly volatile agri sector in Africa. But is the heightened African risk perception...

The importance of digital infrastructure cannot be underestimated: a community connected to the internet generates jobs, security, and economic growth. Telecoms providers...

In advance of her appearance at TXF Global in Athens, Reta Jo Lewis, President and Chair of Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) spoke to TXF about the...

At the Berne Union’s flagship spring meeting in Norway, enthusiasm over opportunities for ECAs on climate and energy transition, technology and innovation, were balanced...