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...

France’s ECA Bpifrance is poised to launch a guarantee offering to boost the adoption of corporate power purchase agreements to lower the subsidy burden of renewables and...

As the UK Electronic Trade Documents Bill is enacted into law, with a start date in two months’ time, will the ‘build it they will come’ approach work for trade...

Germany and Australia are building a strategic alliance on the critical minerals supply front. As ever, the financing package and offtake agreements will prove the...

The LME has decided not to ban Russian metals. Is it the right move or tacit recognition that the pressures on commodities markets spawned by war, growing demand for...

The Commodity Finance Data Report 2021, which comprises an in-depth overview of commercial loans in the commodities industry, was published this week. Here are some of...

Is there a wave of zombie companies and insolvencies coming in time for Halloween, insolvency tsunamis approaching, reservoirs to overflow in trade credit insurance, or...

You can count the number of true project financings for European and UK interconnectors on one hand. But following changes to regulation, and more expected to follow in...

Covid-19 may have accelerated the race for digitisation in commodity trade finance, but there are still significant legal challenges to overcome argues Gabriella Martin,...

Are corporate treasuries, fintechs and banks missing a trick on cross border working capital optimisation and what will the next five years hold? TXF's roundtable...

ECA excellence and large-scale multisourced project finance were the talk of the town at TXF MENA 2019 this month. TXF’s MD Hesham Zakai outlines the most dominant...

Martin Schlageter, head of treasury operations at Roche, the pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland, gives TXF his candid take on SWIFT gpi developments and the...

With levelised cost of energy beginning to favour renewables-linked storage over traditional peakers in the US, utility-scale storage is dawning. Regulatory change,...

The increased focus on upstream LNG looks likely to intensify, and the sheer scale of many of these projects will require funds from a range of sources, not least ECA...

With further US sanctions looming over Russia, and uncertainty over what form they will take, a backlog of commodity-linked deals is growing. But Russian borrowers and...

Sponsors of the $1.54 billion gas-fired Gulf Sriracha IPP project in Thailand – Gulf Energy Development and Mitsui – have closed a tightly priced DFI/ECA-backed financing...

Great strides are now being made in enhancing commodity logistics through the use of blockchain in commodity shipments. Jonathan Bell explores some of the recent...

Having just reached financial close on a DFI-backed deal for the Paradise Park solar project in Jamaica, German asset manager MPC is carving itself a reputation as an...

The Ripple versus SWIFT PR campaign appears to have backfired. But whatever the outcome of this rather artificial headline generator, one thing looks certain –...

Coronal Energy’s hedge on a 30MW PV portfolio was not a textbook use of kWh Analytics’ new solar revenue put. But it might be having the desired effect on banks’ term...