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...
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...
The top takeaways from TXF’s Middle East and Africa 2025 event marked the increasing convergence between DFIs and ECAs on large-scale project financings across the...
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...
Daniel Bembennek, head of finance and guarantees, in the decarbonisation technologies sector at thyssenkrupp, argues that long term trends towards decarbonisation are...
Today’s Exile is Veronika Koroleva, Partner at gunnercooke. Veronika’s Exile celebrates the importance of mentorship and resilience, as well as embracing alternative...
TXF spoke with Marie-Laure Gastellu, global head of trade finance services at Societe Generale, to outline the latest measures the bank has in place to handle...
The trade finance industry has suffered a trio of ailments since the end of 2024 with the shuttering of three different non-bank lenders. While the circumstances across...
Commodity traders reaped substantial profits off the back of market volatility in 2022 and 2023. With their war chests armed, they pursued a policy of diversification –...
In this trade & export finance webinar, Mark Norris, Partner, and Daniela Barrdear, Counsel, look at best practice for effectively structuring ECA and DFI guarantees and...
Türkiye is the rising star of the export finance community as a source of demand and as a home for internationally renowned EPC contractors. A surge in activity has...
This year's winners of the TXF Perfect 10 weren't only about size, although there were benchmark deals in terms of volume and sectors. They were more symptomatic of the...
Mark A Smith, executive chairman and CEO at NioCorp Developments, will use US (and UK and German) export credit agency support to dig for critical minerals in Nebraska....
TXF spoke with Orsted's Peter Highmore, senior vice president, head of partnerships and M&A and EIFO's Kurt Martin Larsen, managing director for transactions and global...
In February the Berne Union and the ICC convened a meeting of export finance practitioners to discuss the future of sustainability in the industry. The key message? A...
The wait for the winners of the TXF Perfect 10 Commodity Finance Deals of the Year is over. Read on to find the landmark deals of 2024.
The solid performance of the export finance market in 2024 was mostly driven by the stronger focus on new technologies and the broadening ECA mandate. The news bodes well...
The public-private funding vehicle for US Exim loans - PEFCO - has completed a debut issue in Euros. And it is also - in the name of improved resilience - looking to add...
Overall commodity finance volumes grew marginally in 2024. But the most significant findings were product innovations, with digitalisation through collaboration,...
As Uzbekistan looks to meet growing gas demand while phasing out inefficient Soviet-era power facilities, a DFI/ECA-backed financing for the 1.6GW Surkhandarya CCGT...
In October 2024 Trafigura closed a $2.8 billion borrowing base – the first in the syndicated market to use electronic bills of lading as collateral. How did the trader...
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 through its official agencies should not be overlooked.