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14 October 2024

Keynote: KfW IPEX-Bank CEO Rudack on how to create a sustainable growth mindset

TXF looks at the way different financial institutions are approaching the crossovers between export, project and development finance for sustainable economic development....

30 September 2024
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Manufacturing & equipment, Other, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport

Corporate perspectives: Behringer solders connections with Siemens FS

Tobias Behringer, head of finance advisory, Siemens Financial Services, discusses his role in the transformed Siemens organisation as part of the connective tissue for...

12 September 2024

EDC’s Lavery on creating a legacy of no wrong doors to export finance support

Mairead Lavery at EDC is coming to the end of her term as CEO. She discusses changes in her philosophy, the need for reform of Common Approaches, and creating a robust...

07 August 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities

Africa agri trade: Are lenders’ risk perceptions misplaced?

Trade financiers are taking a more conservative approach to lending to the increasingly volatile agri sector in Africa. But is the heightened African risk perception...

26 July 2024
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Telecoms and Communications

Sonatel’s securitisation: Connecting local investors and telecoms

The importance of digital infrastructure cannot be underestimated: a community connected to the internet generates jobs, security, and economic growth. Telecoms providers...

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...

26 June 2024

Global 2024 Export, Project & Development Finance, Athens: The Oracle speaks

The Delphic Oracle has spoken at TXF Global Export Finance Athens 2024 and the auguries are generally good for the export finance industry. We dig through some of the...

05 June 2024
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Agri/Soft Commodities, Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Takeaways from the tea-party: TXF Amsterdam 2024

The 10th edition of the TXF Amsterdam Global Commodity Finance event has now passed, but what were the biggest talking points? Read on for the latest updates on growth in...

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...

20 February 2024
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Infrastructure, Manufacturing & equipment, Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications, Transport, Waste and water

Corporate perspectives: Patience is a virtue for Elecnor's Perez

It’s still positive, and the benefits of the changes in the OECD Arrangement are already showing, says Angela Perez, head of structured finance at Spanish infrastructure...

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...

07 December 2023

CGI: Green light on trade digitisation, how banks can avoid stalling

Recent legislative developments on trade digitisation in the UK and long-awaited API standards for guarantees and standby LCs from SWIFT and ICC, have given banks the...

29 November 2023
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Transport

Cruising ECA debt volumes buoyant

The emergence of untied lending and longer tenors are symptomatic of a growing ECA and lender appetite for the cruise ship sector in the wake of the pandemic.

02 November 2023

How do carbon markets work? Part 2

As with any type of valuable asset, owners of emission allowances and voluntary carbon credits may wish to use them to obtain finance. This asset class is increasingly...

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...

17 August 2023

From idea to reality: Acre’s Export Finance Funds

Acre Impact Capital previewed the launch of its Export Finance Funds at TXF & Uxolo’s Global Conference 2023 in Lisbon. The first-of-its-kind strategy plans to bring...

31 July 2023
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Power, Renewables, Transport

10-year plan: The future of export finance business

TXF spoke with Philip Lewis, global head of export finance at HSBC to discuss how broadening the remit of ECAs allows for a larger impact in terms of energy transition...

26 July 2023

Bpifrance to launch guarantee fund for renewable offtakes

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...

19 July 2023

Build it, but will they come? Thumbs up for new UK Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023

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...

28 June 2023
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Manufacturing & equipment, Metals and Mining, Power, Telecoms and Communications, Transport

Shine on crazy copper!

Copper isn’t just a critical metal, it is the critical metal for the global green economy. Complete underinvestment in mining points to a drastic shortage of the metal in...