Commodities trader Vitol will buy Britain's Vivo Energy in a deal valued at about $2.3 billion, as the Dutch firm looks to take full control of the distributor of Shell- and Engen-branded fuels in Africa. Shares in Vivo, which has a network of about 2,330 service stations across Africa, jumped...
The weightings that the Basel 4 framework assigns to private credit insurance are too harsh. They risk constraining the flow of capital to sustainable investments in emerging...
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: cautious,...
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.
The weightings that the Basel 4 framework assigns to private credit insurance are too harsh. They risk constraining the flow of capital to sustainable investments in emerging markets.
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: cautious, uncertain, yet optimistic about the resilience of the industry’s key pillars.
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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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