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23 June 2025
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Metals and Mining

20 mins with: Yana Kalmykova, Metinvest

TXF spoke with Yana Kalmykova, corporate finance director at Metinvest to outline the importance of ECA support amid limited bank appetite for their projects. From a...

17 June 2025

Resilience meets internationalisation in Croatia with HBOR’s Cuvalo

Hrvoje Čuvalo, President of the Management Board of the Croatian Bank of Reconstruction and Development, HBOR, and host of the Berne Union’s Spring Meeting in Dubrovnik,...

16 June 2025

Global 2025: Transformation for transition

The transformation of the export, project and development finance spaces are underway. But can the converging sectors write their next act amid the heightening...

13 June 2025
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Renewables

Riding the gusts: Poland progresses offshore wind ambitions

Equinor and Polenergia have closed a landmark project financing for Baltyk 2&3 amid a flurry of activity in the offshore wind sector. Poland has big ambitions to...

09 June 2025

Exiled: Christine Jordan, Standard Chartered Bank

Today’s Exile is Christine Jordan, Head of Development & Agency Finance for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and France at Standard Chartered Bank. A true international,...

06 June 2025
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Power, Renewables, Telecoms and Communications

JBIC: The in/outward face of Japan Inc

TXF spoke with Hiroke Sekine, managing executive officer, global head of infrastructure and environment finance group at JBIC to discuss how the Japanese ECA is...

03 June 2025

Guardians of trade in Dubrovnik

The walled city of Dubrovnik is a fitting setting to a resilience-themed Berne Union Spring meeting hosted by HBOR, Croatia’s export credit agency. TXF spoke to Yuichiro...

02 June 2025

Exiled: Silvia Gavornikova, OECD

Today’s guest is Silvia Gavornikova, Head of Export Credits and Competition Division at the OECD. With over 20 years of experience in export finance - as well as some...

27 May 2025
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Agri/Soft Commodities

The new opera of trade finance: TXF Amsterdam 2025

The curtain has fallen on TXF Amsterdam 2025, but is there time for one last encore? Check out TXF's opening video from the event as well as a few thoughts on the latest...

23 May 2025

Euler Hermes in-depth: Shifting priorities

Germany’s Euler Hermes has had to change its business mix in reaction to political shifts. Mirroring its shift in geographies and financing structures is a change in the...

22 May 2025

TXF Amsterdam 2025: Session and sentiment analysis

TXF has generated an article using Exile’s AI tool based on the transcripts from the recorded sessions at TXF Amsterdam 2025: Global Natural Resources & Commodities...

09 May 2025

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...

02 May 2025
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Manufacturing & equipment, Power, Renewables

Corporate perspectives: Export finance in an ‘It is what is’ world, with Wartsila’s Back

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...

28 April 2025
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Infrastructure, Metals and Mining, Other

Corporate perspectives: Bembennek at thyssenkrupp sharpens decarbonisation focus

Daniel Bembennek, head of finance and guarantees, in the decarbonisation technologies sector at thyssenkrupp, argues that long term trends towards decarbonisation are...

14 April 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Atishoo: Non-bank trade finance trio catch a cold

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...

07 April 2025

Exiled: Marlon Smith, JLC Infrastructure

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...

04 April 2025
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Metals and Mining, Oil & gas

Traders take on assets as commodity volatility fades

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 –...

25 March 2025

Perfect 10: Export Finance Deals of the Year

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...

21 March 2025
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Metals and Mining

Corporate perspectives: ‘Mine baby, mine’ (responsibly) with NioCorp’s CEO

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....

14 March 2025

Striking a balance: BU and ICC convene workshop to boost sustainability in export finance

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...