There have been steps forward, sideways and back in trade digitisation in 2022. Here we reflect on some of the developments in what has been a choppy year for certain...
In this interview Jacob Katsman, the co-founder and director of GlobalTrade Corporation, discusses with three industry specialists the impact of the new law on the...
Tesla has been running the show on so-called gigafactories for electric vehicles for some time. But now Europe with considerable support from DFIs and backing by ECAs for...
Jacob Katsman, director at GlobalTrade Corporation, outlines the reasons why the Covid-19 crisis will speed up the digitisation of trade.
This year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders...
Cofco has signed the largest loan for an agri trading company yet which is linked to sustainability elements. Jonathan Bell examines this growing trend within...
Taking home TXF’s Best Overall ECA deal of the year, government-backed sponsors of the Duqm oil refinery in Oman sealed a multi-billion dollar, multi-sourced...
An executive summary of TXF's key global country risk ratings for December.
A summer of discontent, replete with a credit downgrade, an opposed mining charter, and ongoing political problems, has hit South African debt markets. Miners seemed to...
Maersk and IBM's blockchain trial could revolutionise the shipping container supply chain. But to make real cost savings, all parts of that chain have to adopt the...
Financing for the project signed in November 2016, but full financial close was still subject to resolution of some of the conditions in the project’s power purchase...
A Lebanese developer, the UK’s CDC and the World Bank put together a frontier market independent power project template.
Finance Minister Gordhan has demonstrated his indispensability to avoid another downgrade of South Africa’s credit rating and to maintain unity within the governing ANC...
Following the UK’s surprise vote to leave the EU, EXX Africa's Robert Besseling assesses the probable impact such a departure would have on African trade, investment, and...
The United States Treasury is keen to ensure that export credit agencies (ECA) are playing by the same rules – so much so that they look set to try and apply pressure on...
South Africa's state-run logistics and transport company Transnet has secured a ZAR30 billion ($2.4 billion) loan agreement with the China Development Bank (CDB). The...
Nokia Corporation (Nokia) has selected GlobalTrade Corporation’s (GTC) @GlobalTrade multi-bank trade finance platform for managing export documentary credits and bank...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has announced that Siemens Energy (US) has been named as the Renewable Exporter of the Year.
The love affair between banks and traders is sometimes resented by producers, who struggle to access bank finance directly. But traders are the arteries and veins of...
Although the operations of Berne Union members are diversified across various products, geographies, governance models, and regulatory systems, the growing role of ECAs...
Senior practitioners of the trade and export finance community will gather at the University of St Gallen this autumn for another edition of IfTI’s Global Symposium. Expect lively debate around case studies and best practices in trade as geopolitical tensions rise.
This year's winners of the TXF Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders, with ESG credentials the running theme across those winning deals.
Since the first announcement of a partnership between Euler Hermes and Trafigura in 2022, European ECAs have built steady relationships with commodity traders. Today, as supply chain dislocation fades and funding demands ease, what role does the ECA-trader deal still have to play?
How do you have a thriving offshore wind export business when you don’t, technically, have an offshore wind industry? Norway’s exporters are finding the answer, and of Norway’s green exports, offshore wind is by far the largest supported by Eksfin. Tone Lunde Bakker, CEO of Eksfin discusses how the restructured agency has been helping support the pivot away from fossil fuels, into wind, marine, onshore aquaculture, to name a few.
Unveil Amsterdam's allure! Elevate your pipeline with top dealmakers. An Industry Awards dinner adds glamour to this unmissable adventure.
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Join us on a mythical adventure through all things export, agency & project finance as TXF Global 2024 travels to the historic city of Athens for the first time!
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