African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is seeking to add 530 African commercial banks to its 170 agent banks across Africa, in a bid to extend financial services to SMEs. The new initiative is designed to bridge the lending gap left by international banks that have pulled out of Africa and to...
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 cover....
Todd Winterhalt, senior vice-president of international markets at Export Development Canada (EDC), discusses EDC’s role in Canada’s market diversification at Berne Union’s...
TXF spoke with PuiYin Tham, vice president of business development at Marubeni to outline the benefits of taking the ECA funding route and how the Japanese developer’s deal pipeline is shaping up in the APAC region.
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 cover. He’s also piloting new forms of cover that have an element of development finance with them, while continuing work on transition energy deals and interesting rail infra projects.
Todd Winterhalt, senior vice-president of international markets at Export Development Canada (EDC), discusses EDC’s role in Canada’s market diversification at Berne Union’s AGM in Ottawa. He sees the jolt provided by its neighbour and the evolving trade landscape as a potential positive ‘kick in the pants’.
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Connecting the Middle East and Africa. Step into the vibrant world of trade, agency and project finance at Exile’s (TXF, Proximo and Uxolo) MEA 2026.
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