Untied export finance volumes dropped significantly in 2025 compared to recent years despite a vintage year for ECA business. Is the fall in activity anomalous, cyclical, or symptomatic of a change in the pitch of ECAs and banks?

TXF spoke with Sang-Jin Ju, KEXIM’s executive director of project finance, to outline the ECA’s activity and how its adapting support to Korean EPCs in overseas PPP markets amid increased competition from Turkish, Chinese and Indian contractors.

TXF speaks to Sullivan & Worcester partner Robert Parson about trade disputes, credit escalation and the flight to size as the crisis in the Gulf continues.