TXF Dealmakers 2025: Top takeaways
The main themes - including decarbonisation and political volatility - have been echoed in TXF’s earlier events. But the sense of urgency about transformations to...
The main themes - including decarbonisation and political volatility - have been echoed in TXF’s earlier events. But the sense of urgency about transformations to...
The 2025 edition of TXF’s annual Commodity Finance Research Report is now available. It reflects the views of a market that has been bruised by disruptions to trade:...
Todd Winterhalt, senior vice-president of international markets at Export Development Canada (EDC), discusses EDC’s role in Canada’s market diversification at Berne...
Åke Nordlander, director general at EKN discusses strategy in his new role, the increased prominence of defence, which now forms the largest part of the Swedish ECA’s...
Andy Bagus, senior vice-president treasury and strategic finance, at Indonesia’s national oil company Pertamina discusses project and export finance strategy amid a...
The top takeaways from Exile Asia: Agency, Energy and Infrastructure at Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre have emerged. From increased ECA...
Sweeping EU restrictions on Russian gas are set to upend contract structures and supply routes by 2028. As Brussels phases out Russian energy, commodity finance players...
The outlook for the green hydrogen market has been challenged in recent years despite positive rhetoric from industry stakeholders. A consistent financing pipeline is yet...
Uzbekistan’s growing energy market provides plenty of opportunities for infrastructure development, and ECAs are showing enthusiasm. Gas remains essential to its...
At ITFA's annual trade finance event, this year in Singapore, TXF's Katharine Morton hears whether trade finance is likely be one of the things that gain from disorder.
Irene Gambelli, subsidised financing manager at Maire Met Development, discusses her new role, and her work in liaising with MDBs and DFIs alongside ECAs to initiate,...
The export finance market performed well in the first half of 2025 and is poised for a very healthy full-year once a raft of big-ticket deals have been pushed over the...
Export finance activity looks healthy as the industry enters the second half of the year, but there is room to improve if ECAs want to match record volumes across 2023...
The Eastern Green Link 2 project will help to upgrade the UK’s electricity highway and provides a viable ECA-backed template to spur more green loans in the space. But...
Critical mineral supply chains sit at the centre of present geopolitical tensions, from China’s processing monopoly to Ukraine’s untapped deposits. ECAs have been armed...
TXF talks to Mayank Vishnoi, CFO - corporate finance at ChemOne to discuss its long-awaited signing for the $3.5 billion ECA-backed loan backing its PEC petrochemical...
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...
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,...
The transformation of the export, project and development finance spaces are underway. But can the converging sectors write their next act amid the heightening...
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...
Tim Reid, CEO of UK Export Finance (UKEF) focuses on what’s changed, and what’s stayed the same against a backdrop of uncertainty for exporters. Defence, cyber, SMEs, concentration risk and EPC+F all come into focus. How can the ‘Venn diagram’ of overlap with MDBs be improved and how important is ‘less tied’ financing?