Simon Francis has left Citi as head of EMEA debt financing after nearly seven years at the bank. Heath Lohrman, a director in Citi's leveraged finance team, has also gone. Francis had been promoted to that job in 2021 having previously been co-head of leveraged finance, EMEA, since 2017. He...
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 and...
Ralf Schwarzhaupt, CEO, managing partner at Jebsen & Jessen Industrial Solutions, cautions that global uncertainty is making investors shy away from long term decisions....
TXF talks to Abdulrahman Al Sowaidi, CEO of Qatar Development Bank (QDB), at the Exile Global 2025 event, discussing topics such as QDB's multifaceted product offering and its expansion within the international ECA market.
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 and 2024. The project pipeline reflects ongoing interest in the mining industry, but challenges have beset a major interconnector project.
Ralf Schwarzhaupt, CEO, managing partner at Jebsen & Jessen Industrial Solutions, cautions that global uncertainty is making investors shy away from long term decisions. Regulation, the drift away from level playing fields in ECA financing, and banks being bottlenecks to refinancing also matter. Even so, export deals are getting structured, particularly in Africa. Pragmatism and flexibility are key to navigate through complexity and uncertainty.
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