Today’s Exile is Veronika Koroleva, Partner at gunnercooke. Veronika’s Exile celebrates the importance of mentorship and resilience, as well as embracing alternative...

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...

Today’s Exile is Ayodeji (DJ) Olaifa, Vice President, Senior Business Development Officer at KfW IPEX Bank. A seasoned financier, storyteller, and self-professed...

Today’s Exile is Marlon Smith, Managing Partner at JLC Infrastructure. As well as heading up Magic Johnson’s infrastructure fund, Marlon is a keen musician and propounder...

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...

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 litany of lengthy environmental and social (E/S) due diligence processes in ECA deals pose significant problems for projects in Africa. Ram Shalita, CEO & Partner at...

The TXF Global Commodity Trade Finance Industry Report 2024 has arrived with qualitative and quantitative insights into industry sentiment. Read on to a find a full...

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...

The commodity finance industry's well-documented flight to size has left trading houses stranded. Alternative financiers have struggled to fill the gap, but could a new...

TXF presents its top trends in commodity finance from 2024 – as well as a few ones to watch out for in 2025.

Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne Union and general manager, international and strategic policy, at Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI), explains his...

The TXF Dealmakers Assembly landed in Vienna for two days of networking constructive debate. Amid increased competition from non-OECD financiers, ECAs are being pushed to...

It has been a year since Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) set up a development finance operation. Hwang Kiyeon, senior executive director and board member at Kexim,...

Lila Granda talks strategy in her first interview since her appointment as head of political risk & credit, and Vantage Risk Companies’ admission to Berne Union as full...

STX Group has closed a repeat of its pioneering 2023 environmental commodities borrowing base deal – and it is bigger, bolder and has more banks. How did the trader...

The list of companies attending TXF Asia 2024 comprises a diverse pool of practitioners from across the export, development and project finance space. There is no gulf in...

ECAs, DFIs and banks to Madagascar’s Ambatovy nickel mine project financing are facing a wipe out of $1.66 billion loans under a new shareholder restructuring proposal....