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19 July 2024

Navigating the market: Insights from the 2023 US Exim Competitiveness Report

US Exim has released its annual competitiveness report, and the story is familiar. While progress has been made in dealmaking since its 2019 reauthorisation, Exim remains...

09 July 2024
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Renewables

TXF Athens: DEG's DeWit on upping DFI support

TXF spoke with Natalie DeWit, DEG Invest's head of strategy to outline how the German DFI is backing small-scale projects and gender-based SME lending to its first green...

02 July 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Power, Telecoms and Communications

TXF Athens: Power International Holding, a growing business incubator

TXF spoke to Eyad Abdulrahim, Group CFO of Power International Holding (PIH) to outline the company’s market penetration strategy across global real estate, hospitality,...

28 June 2024
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Infrastructure, Renewables

TXF Athens: ILX Fund's broader church of investors

TXF spoke with Guillaume Le Bris, head of infrastructure and energy at ILX Fund to discuss how the Amsterdam-based fund is working with DFIs and governments to attract...

25 June 2024
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Infrastructure

TXF Athens: BII bullish on Africa despite pricing volatility

Colin Buckley, managing director and general counsel at British International Investment (BII) outlines the UK development bank’s new commitments, including its bullish...

17 May 2024
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Oil & gas

Mozambique LNG: When will funds be disbursed?

The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest...

10 May 2024

Keynote: Finnvera’s CEO warns on pendulum swings for export finance

Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces...

07 May 2024

TXF-TFG podcast: A decade of commodity finance

Ahead of TXF’s Global Commodity Finance Conference in Amsterdam on 22-23 May 2024, Trade Finance Global’s (TFG) Deepesh Patel (DP) spoke with Jonathan Bell (JB),...

07 May 2024

Exclusive profile: Queen Creole? EBRD's new head of trade facilitation on digitalisation and sustainability

In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development...

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.

15 April 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications

ECA Deals of the Year: The winners

This year's winners of the TXF Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders, with ESG credentials the running theme across those winning deals.

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’....

05 April 2024

To tie or not to tie, that is the ECA question

While the growth of untied ECA lending provides flexibility for ECAs to compete with non-OECD ECAs, the inconsistent methodologies of this nascent product are a reminder...

28 March 2024
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Infrastructure, Oil & gas, Power

The gap becomes a chasm as ECAs chase developed markets

ECA volumes into developing markets continue to lag far behind developed markets despite a record-breaking year for export finance. Reforms to the OECD Arrangement could...

22 March 2024

TXF MENA 2024: Top takeaways

ECA-backed project finance took centre stage this year at TXF MENA 2024 with the spotlight on energy transition, longer tenors, and untied lending. ECA flexibility...

18 March 2024

Egypt and Morocco: How to sustain infrastructure investment

North Africa’s two leading markets have taken very different approaches to encouraging energy and infrastructure investment. Which path looks more sustainable?

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...

09 February 2024
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Oil & gas

LNG carriers tap more ECA support

Korean shipyards' order books having been filling up with LNG carriers since the pandemic and war in Ukraine. And ECA support for the sector continues to push this deal...

05 January 2024
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Metals and Mining

Argentinian lithium mine progresses financing

The ECA-covered loan backing Lake Resources’ Kachi lithium project in Argentina is due to close in Q1 2025 and will mark UKEF’s first project in the South American...

08 December 2023

Shattering the glass ceiling: The rise of women in finance

Paule Gosset-Kone, managing director at Maryel & Partners caught up with Katarzyna Kowalska COO at the Polish ECA, KUKE to outline the growing role of women in finance,...