TXF spoke with Dominique Meesen, Berne Union’s medium/long-term (MLT) committee chair, head of reinsurance at Credendo, and vice-chair Andrew Underwood, also chief underwriting officer at AXA XL to discuss the resilience of the MLT private insurance market, the importance of collaboration between ECAs and private insurers, as well as fostering more visible data exchanges between BU members.
TXF caught up with the Berne Union’s new ECA committee chair Isabel Galdiz (US Exim), vice-chair Yuichiro Akita (NEXI), and Berne Union ECA committee manager Didem Bayseferogullari, to discuss evolution of the role of the Berne Union and what the future holds for the ECA sector in a post-pandemic world.
TXF sat down with Saad Alkhalb, CEO at Saudi Exim Bank to outline the recently formed ECA’s progress to date and how it plans to increase support to Saudi exporters doing business in new sectors and markets.
TXF spoke with Massimo Falcioni, CEO at Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI), to discuss Expo 2020 in Dubai, cooperation agreements, the export finance market in the Middle East, the transition to net zero, and the evolving product suite offered by the UAE’s burgeoning ECA.
TXF sat down with Silvia Gavornikova, director of international relations at the Export-Import Bank of the Slovak Republic, chair-elect of the Prague Club committee & co-chair of the outreach task force, to discuss the headwinds and opportunities facing the export finance market in and beyond the Covid epoch.
With exports accounting for 86% of Hungary’s GDP, TXF spoke with Gregely Jakli, CEO at EXIM Hungary to discuss the ECA’s mission statement to promote its exporters via new working capital programmes, specifically SMEs, while helping corporates to diversify into different markets.
With exports accounting for 86% of Hungary’s GDP, TXF spoke with Gregely Jakli, CEO at EXIM Hungary to discuss the ECA’s mission statement to promote its exporters via new working capital programmes, specifically SMEs, while helping corporates to diversify into different markets.
TXF spoke with Christina Westholm-Schroder, sovereign & BU vice president, to outline the effects of the pandemic on collaboration within the export finance industry, how ESG targets are higher on the finance agenda than ever before, and what the updates to the OECD Arrangement mean for users of ECA debt?
TXF spoke with Stale Torgersbraten, legal director at Eksfin to outline the mission statement of the recently formed Norwegian ECA, a merger between former government agencies GIEK and Export Credit Norway.
The Berne Union recently hosted its first in-person Annual General Meeting since 2019. The gathering took place in Budapest, hosted by EXIM Hungary, and TXF was pleased to take the opportunity to catch up with members of the Union's Committees as well as other ECA CEOs.
Modernising the OECD Arrangement, harmonising definitions, widening origination efforts, and leveraging blended finance opportunities are all critical to increasing the volume of sustainable export finance transactions, according to a new ICC White Paper on Sustainability in Export Finance.
From speedy deal gestations to the calibre of an ECA's product offering, the Export Finance Industry Awards 2021 recognises industry excellence based on the banking and ECA heatmaps produced in TXF Research’s Global Export Finance Industry Report 2021. Find out this year's winners here.
The technology we use to facilitate the flow and execution of financial transactions can move quicker than we think. This brief peek into the past offers some ideas for harnessing today’s technology to generate tomorrow’s deals.
Live Webinar | 23.09.2020 | 14:00 UK | Join us for a one-on-one interview with the STSA's Secretary General, Florence Schurch.
Live Webinar | 23.09.2020 | 14:00 UK | Join us for a one-on-one interview with the STSA's Secretary General, Florence Schurch.
The $1.5 trillion trade finance gap is a heavy burden for SMEs in emerging markets, one which financial institutions have long sought to ease. In partnership with Comarch, TXF hosted a webinar to consider the extent to which technology can bridge this gap.
Wednesday 20 May | 11am BST | 12pm CEST How much is digitisation going to help narrow the gap between what trade finance is needed and what is under offer?
ECA excellence and large-scale multisourced project finance were the talk of the town at TXF MENA 2019 this month. TXF’s MD Hesham Zakai outlines the most dominant opportunities and headwinds facing the region.
From modernising the OECD consensus, creating an international exporters' forum to linking deal margin grids to borrowers sustainable development goals, there were a number of exciting takeaways from two days of forward thinking debate at TXF Global in Prague last week.
Trade finance as an asset class is set for growth in the near term, according to 78% of respondents in a survey of investment professionals carried out by TXF in association with EFA Group. Download our most comprehensive measure of investor appetite to date.
In June, the EIB launched its upgraded Trade Finance Facility 2.0 – to enable Greek banks to ramp up support for SMEs and Midcaps. TXF caught up with international and domestic Greek lenders to find out their responses to the revamped product.
For sale: Investible asset. Self-liquidating with low default and loss rate. Contributor to real economy businesses. Short term maturities available. It’s a compelling sales pitch that, for the first time, is beginning to push trade finance from niche to mainstream asset class for funds and investors.
The inaugural report details findings of a broad market survey designed to capture the latest trends and themes in the commodity finance market.
Hundreds of market leading organisations have confirmed their attendance at the most spectacular event of the year for project, infrastructure, export and agency finance.
A new partnership between global electronic invoice financier Tungsten Network Finance and supply chain finance (SCF) expert Orbian promises to benefit clients on both sides of the equation. In this webinar, TXF aims to find out more about the partnership.
The TXF clock is tickin' - which companies have already confirmed their attendance at the hottest trade and commodity finance show of the year?
TXF is hosting a free supply chain finance webinar today. The webinar looks at Tungsten’s partnership with Orbian that will allow the e-invoicing company to offer early payment funding solutions to large corporates on its electronic platform. Click here to register: http://view6.workcast.net/register?cpak=2756764262786720
Hesham Zakai, TXF’s head of content, picks his favourite trade & supply chain finance stories of 2016.
Ollie Gordon, TXF's news & features editor, picks his favourite export & agency finance stories of 2016.
Last month TXF was delighted to welcome a host of international trade, export and project finance experts to its inaugural Middle East conference. The forum discussed and debated the trade and investment landscape across the region, from changes in debt levels and new forms of financing to geopolitical challenges and exciting frontier markets. Here are some of the key "takeaway" points from the event.
Those of you unfamiliar with the annual jamboree which is the wonderful SIbos – the world’s largest financial conference/exhibition – will possibly be oblivious to the scale and intensity of the event, and its impact and influence in the short-term trade, FI and fintech community.
Gerry Gannon is the global head of trade finance at Westpac, the bank that he has been with for over three decades. TXF’s associate director, Hesham Zakai, spoke with Gerry to get his views on today’s market, from the levels of liquidity to promising new trade routes.
In the heart of London – a city at the forefront of global fintech innovation – TXF’s Hesham Zakai sat down with a group of experts at a BNY Mellon-hosted roundtable to discuss how the landscape is unfolding, the impact of fintech on the more “traditionally renowned” trade sector, and how banks are responding to the surge of new technology meisters entering the finance space.
The 29th annual World Traders’ Tacitus Lecture was delivered this year by the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Paul Tucker, on ‘a new international monetary system in a new world order’. TXF was granted access to the event’s subsequent debate, chaired by Lord Clement-Jones CBE, which focused on the question of whether international monetary policy and global foreign policy should be inextricably linked.
As corporates turn in greater number to supply chain finance to optimise their working capital, the best practice on this vital treasury tool continues to grow. Doug Schoch, a Vice President at Siemens in North America, one of the early-adopters of SCF, shares with TXF his top 10 tips for executing a successful SCF programme.
In a wide-ranging interview, Citi’s global head of trade, John Ahearn, talks to TXF’s Hesham Zakai about challenging pricing in the market; why 2015 was the riskiest year seen to date; the danger of killing the golden geese of supply chain finance and securitisation; the appeal of blockchain technology; and the industry’s ongoing battle for a fair understanding and treatment of trade finance.
2016 is set to be a year of change. Trade sanctions on Iran have been suspended; those on Russia, on the contrary, have been extended for another six months. Compliance regulations are more stringent than ever, limiting banks’ ability to trade. Geoff Wynne, partner at law firm Sullivan & Worcester, gives TXF’s Hesham Zakai a few words of advice about how to navigate the complex legal landscape of trade in 2016.
UK bank Barclays made its entire London export finance team redundant last Friday, 22 January 2016, amid a wider cull of the bank’s investment banking division.
Hesham Zakai, TXF Media’s content manager, picks his favourite trade and supply chain finance stories from 2015.
Below are the 10 people moves that defined the trade and supply chain world in 2015. We have listed the 10 biggest trade and supply chain market moves that we considered to be the most significant in 2015. Disagree with our list? Add your own suggestions below in the comments section!
Singapore based aircraft lessor, Transportation Partners, has issued a $143.7 million bond guaranteed by French export credit agency (ECA) Coface to refinance 10 ATR turboprop aircraft. The 10-year, floating-rate, bond represents the first Coface-backed bond for an ATR aircraft, as well as the first Coface bond to be privately placed
TXF has announced a one-day conference dedicated solely to US Ex-Im following the North American ECA’s recent reauthorisation.
Commerzbank’s head of structured commodity trade finance (SCTF) Mario Messerschmidt has brought to an end his fifteen-year tenure at the bank, announcing his departure effective on December 31.
In a wide-ranging interview with TXF’s Hesham Zakai, Henry Balani talks about the responsibilities facing banks; unintended consequences engendered by regulation, including the impact on correspondent banking; his hopes for improvements to bank processes in the emerging world; and how the ‘new normal’ is an opportunity for all banks to distinguish themselves in a competitive marketplace.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and IE Singapore have collaborated to launch the ICC Academy, which aims to provide “rigorous and relevant” business education to professionals and students alike – starting with a faculty in trade finance. TXF spoke with John Danilovich (JD), Secretary General of ICC, and Teo Eng Cheong (TEC), CEO of International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, to find out more about the origins of their collaboration, and the prospects of the ICC Academy.
Using a rich data set gathered by Orbian over several years, academics from IML and the European Business School have researched the ways in which companies use Supply Chain Finance (SCF).
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are among the hardest-hit by the trade finance gap – accounting for more than half of all rejected transactions, according to the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission’s 2015 Global Survey.
At a time when digitisation, regulation and new liquidity are on the rise, Hesham Zakai explores how these factors are changing the trade-finance landscape.
How is export finance remodelling itself for a sustainable future? Join this one day virtual event and hear from its key ECA providers and corporate stakeholders.
Return of the hugely popular virtual event which addresses the challenges of sustainable commodity finance head on. Bringing you an atmosphere that is inspiring & ideas led! The time is now...
We're reuniting the Americas structured trade and export finance community in Miami! Deal making ahoy! Don't miss this much awaited comeback.
The destination for African commodity finance! A unique opportunity to come together with deal makers across this exciting region for virtual networking opportunities second to none!
The industry is returning to Dubai in-person! Join this senior-level, event in-person or online as we examine greater export and project finance collaboration between Africa and the Middle East
After 3 years away our global commodity finance event returns to Amsterdam! The leading conference in the industry is set to take your breath away as we set sail for two days of world-class networking