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13 June 2025
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Renewables

Riding the gusts: Poland progresses offshore wind ambitions

Equinor and Polenergia have closed a landmark project financing for Baltyk 2&3 amid a flurry of activity in the offshore wind sector. Poland has big ambitions to...

15 May 2025

Top takeaways: TXF Amsterdam 2025

The mood music at the 11th edition of the TXF Amsterdam Global Commodity Finance event was downbeat. Spawned by amplifying tariff concerns, limited debt appetite from...

09 May 2025

Facing the reality of Trump 2.0

The greatest impact of the second Trump administration is likely to be through its application of tariffs on global trade flows. But its impacts on project pipelines and...

02 May 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Power, Renewables

Corporate perspectives: Export finance in an ‘It is what is’ world, with Wartsila’s Back

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...

03 March 2025

Commodity finance report 2024: A year of innovation

Overall commodity finance volumes grew marginally in 2024. But the most significant findings were product innovations, with digitalisation through collaboration,...

31 January 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Other, Transport

Corporate perspectives: Embraer’s Piorino on flying higher with its ECA finance footprint

What excites Matheus Piorino, head of customer finance North America, director, at Embraer in 2025? Expanding the footprint of agencies the Brazil-domiciled company is...

17 January 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Transport

EV gigafactory risk: Who's on the hook?

Between 2020 and Q1 2024, 12 EV gigafactory project financings signed globally, according to Exile Intelligence. But amid ongoing financial woes, how much exposure do...

28 June 2024
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Chemicals/Petrochemicals

ChemOne: Navigating a difficult path to financial close

ChemOne is approaching financial close for its flagship Malaysia petrochemicals facility after enduring years of pandemic-related strictures. Its journey has taken in a...

03 May 2024
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

An eerie calm? The view from Commodity Trading Week 2024

The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long...

22 April 2024
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Other, Renewables, Transport

Keynote: Eksfin’s CEO on the answers blowing in the wind

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...

15 April 2024

TXF Perfect 10 Commodity Finance

The wait for the winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Commodity Finance Deals of the Year is over. Here are the landmark deals of 2023.

08 April 2024

Keynote: Ron on SACE’s fully caffeinated export and import strategy

Michal Ron, Chief International Business Officer at SACE, discusses Italy’s record export finance volumes as it moves into ‘fifth gear’ on its ambitious ‘push strategy’....

03 April 2024
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Oil & gas, Renewables

Hanseatic Energy Hub: German banks appear to have gone AWOL

The future-proofed Hanseatic Energy Hub is a strategically important energy security project for Germany. So where are the German project banks?

16 February 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment

ACC taps ECA-backed funding for 3 gigafactories

Automotive Cells Company's ECA-backed financing for three European gigafactories demonstrates growing international lender comfort for such big-ticket deals with the...

23 January 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Renewables

H2 Green Steel Boden: Long on ambitions, low on emissions

H2GS was founded by Vargas in 2020 and launched in 2021. Three years later it has finalised funding for the world’s first green steel mega project. How? By being open to...

17 November 2023

TXF Geneva 2023: Top takeaways

TXF returned to the Hotel President Wilson for its annual Geneva event. Dealmakers in the commodity trade finance community gathered for a day of networking and industry...

18 October 2023
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Agri/Soft Commodities

How does mandatory and voluntary carbon trading work?

Niamh Dennehy-Maher of Allen & Overy and Robert Lang-Anderson of Bank of America examine each market, explain how carbon trading schemes are set up and what the...

15 September 2023

African infrastructure: Taking the local funding route

Financing the $170 billion African infrastructure gap using domestic capital pools isn’t quite a pie in the sky – there are several financing tools that are already...

13 September 2023

Keynote: ECIC’s expanded mandate in focus with acting CEO Maphula

TXF speaks to Ntshengedzeni Gilbert Maphula, acting CEO of Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (ECIC), about South Africa’s export credit agency’s...

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...