The TXF Dealmakers Assembly is a new and exciting conference taking place in Berlin on 26-27 October. Join us in this revamped format which puts networking and dealmaking...

Peter Lugli, a supply chain finance expert and a veteran of Ariba, Amazon Business and Prime Revenue, takes a closer look at the financial engineering employed by...

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...

This year's edition of TXF’s Commodity Finance Market Report comprises the insights of 173 traders, bankers, alternative financiers, lawyers, brokers, borrowers and...

TXF last week held its annual Cape Town Conference on southern African Commodities, Export & Project Financing. Here, Jonathan Bell highlights some of the key takeaways...

Cyber security is not just an IT problem. It’s a business continuity one that can hit business and finance across the board. TXF’s Katharine Morton spoke to industry...

Winning TXF’s Energy Finance Deal of the Year, Neptune's $2 billion transaction represented the largest reserve-based lending facility raised for an acquisition in the...

The shift to open account trade continues to raise question marks over the future and relevance of traditional letters of credit (LCs).

US Ex-Im has been without authority to approve transactions above $10 million for over 18 months, provoking huge changes for some of Ex-Im’s largest clients. However,...

Unable to approve transactions of more than $10 million for over a year now, the two Trump nominees for the new US Ex-Im quorum have sent a mixed message to the...

IBM and Indian conglomerate Mahindra Group announced this month their new partnership in developing a blockchain prototype to aid Mahindra’s supply chain, a first for a...

In today’s economy, access to global markets is essential for small- and medium-size enterprises. Businesses are increasingly spreading their risks across regions and...

Daniel Riordan has been appointed as president, XL Catlin Global Political Risk and Trade Credit. This represents a significant move from the private insurance...

TXF looks at Export Development Canada's unique and controversial 'pull strategy,' of untied financing to foreign companies like BMW.

HSBC was the biggest lender of export credit agency (ECA) debt in 2015, according to TXF Data's Export Finance report, signing a total of $4.54 billion of ECA-supported...

Singapore based aircraft lessor, Transportation Partners, has issued a $143.7 million bond guaranteed by French export credit agency (ECA) Coface to refinance 10 ATR...

At the Berne Union - the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers - and Prague Club annual general meeting this week in Shanghai - hosted by China’s official...

International financial institutions (IFIs) namely the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the IMF, have signaled plans to extend more than $400 billion in...

Although the emphasis was very much on SME business at the Export-Import Bank of the United States’s (US Ex-Im’s) annual conference in Washington DC last week, it was the...

Sasol, the South African energy and chemical corporation, has completed the credit facility required for the construction of its ethane cracker and derivatives complex at...