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07 September 2023
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Renewables

Springboard to success: the ECA project pipeline

Export finance activity looks healthy as the industry seeks to build on the successes of H1 2023. The project pipeline reflects new mandates for ECAs in the mining space...

01 June 2023
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

TXF Amsterdam 2023: Top Takeaways

The TXF Global Commodity Finance and Sustainable Natural Resources event has returned to Amsterdam for another year, this time accompanied by the Industry Awards Dinner....

06 September 2022
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Oil & gas

Where's the bank balance in commodity trader lending?

The divide between access to bank liquidity and cost of debt for first and lower tier traders is widening and becoming an existential problem for the latter. If market...

11 May 2022

One step beyond: New UK trade digitisation legislation on track

Trade digitisation has taken a big step forward globally with the announcement that the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill is on its way to becoming law. What’s the...

06 May 2022

Opinion: Is disruption the norm in the world of commodities?

Jean Francois Lambert, founder and managing partner at Lambert Commodities, asks whether commodity markets were ever steering in calm seas. More crucially, how long will...

23 February 2022
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Metals and Mining

Rio Tinto’s workplace report shows toxic culture prevails

The publishing of some shocking statistics in Rio Tinto’s Report into workplace culture has sparked a much-needed discussion around the necessity of a cultural re-haul –...

19 January 2022

Getting on with it: Financing international trade in 2022

What will be the key words for financing trade this year? If last year was all about resilience and pivoting will this year be picking yourself up, dusting yourself off,...

17 December 2021

The year that was – the year that will be

As the end of 2021 nears, TXF takes a look at current trends and challenges in commodity trade finance and their implications for 2022.

16 November 2021

Ameropa and Nitron chase payment amid default on Ghana fertilizer deal

Two of the world’s largest fertilizer suppliers are chasing an almost $10 million default from a global reinsurer, in a case that illuminates the perils of using...

15 September 2021

Getting real with physical commodities

It has been a long time and much has happened since we held our last physical global commodities event. But come 7-8 October we are back in Geneva and addressing the...

10 August 2021

Deal analysis: Cote d’Ivoire hospitals project secured through landmark UKEF financing

UKEF support has been highly instrumental in securing the project financing for the construction of six hospitals in Cote d’Ivoire. The deal is the largest yet for the UK...

14 June 2021

Commodity finance: The weighty consequences of compliance

With the events of 2020 having further complicated an industry issue which was already considered to be a hurdle, bank compliance is in danger of leaving SMEs and the...

10 June 2021
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Transport

Not charged up and plenty of places to go!

Crude oil producers got a sharp wake-up call with the recent Dutch court ruling against Shell. In a fast changing world many of the big oil producers need a wake up to...

19 May 2021

Charging up: The bittersweet copper price rally

Copper prices have surged to a decade-long high off the back of demand from a global green industrial revolution. But with the potential of new supply masked by...

08 February 2021
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas, Power, Renewables

Commodities supercycle or surge?

Commodity prices reaching bullish levels as the world prepares to move out of the Covid crisis and into a green industrial revolution has sparked some excitement around...

28 January 2021
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Oil & gas, Power, Transport

Nord Stream 2 – completion is so near and yet so far

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project between Russia and Germany has only 150 kilometres of pipeline left to lay, but increased sanctions from the US and now calls to...

13 January 2021

Reasons to be cheerful (in trade, treasury and risk in 2021), part one

It’s easy to be gloomy, but a new year is a good point to look to the bright side. Here are some thoughts about why staying in bed for the whole of 2021 will not be the...

22 December 2020

Commodity trade finance: 2020 year-end review

In what has been one of the most eventful years for commodity trade finance, we take a long hard look at some of the major happenings and assess what these mean for the...

25 March 2020

Commodity finance report 2019: Structured deal volume drops by nearly half

Overall volumes of global commodity finance fell by 16% in 2019 compared to 2018, according to the full-year TXF 2019 Commodity Finance Report, while structured commodity...

17 March 2020
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Shop talk: Ashurst keeps cool as corporate debt restructuring heats up

During a volatile time for global trade and the commodities market amid the coronavirus pandemic, TXF spoke to Jean Woo, partner at Ashurst in Singapore, to discuss how...