TXF talks to Abdulrahman Al Sowaidi, CEO of Qatar Development Bank (QDB), at the Exile Global 2025 event, discussing topics ...

Trevor Woodward is to retire from Barclays Corporate, Trade and Working Capital, where he has spent since September 1987 in multiple roles, most recently in trade and working capital business ...

The transparency of accounting practices for supply chain finance (SCF) programmes is once again being called into question. Vodafone is investing in its own SCF programme, enabling it to profit off ...

The fledgling Taiwanese offshore wind market has struggled to take further flight against the economic headwinds left in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. With China looking to cajole Taiwan into its ...

In the first of a new series, TXF looks at the way different financial institutions are approaching the crossovers between export, project and development finance in their stated efforts to finance ...

AIIB and IFC are considering a blended refinancing of the existing debt of three Xekaman hydropower plants in Laos. The Xekaman plants comprise the 290MW Xekaman 1 (XKM 1) operational since 2016; the ...

Carnival Corporation signed a €4.4 billion ($4.8 billion) ECA-backed loan to finance the purchase of four new class of cruise ships from Fincantieri at the end of October. The deal marks the largest ...

The walled city of Dubrovnik is a fitting setting to a resilience-themed Berne Union Spring meeting hosted by HBOR, Croatia’s export credit agency. TXF spoke to Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne ...

The Environmental and Social (E/S) due diligence procedures in large-scale, ECA-backed infrastructure projects in emerging markets are a very important part of any deal. But when you take an important ...

In 2023, the export finance industry experienced a huge increase in activity, reaching $190.9 billion across 599 closed transactions, according to TXF Intelligence’s data. But the performance of ...

The Ministry of Economy of Cameroon closed a €94.8 million SACE-backed loan to finance the rehabilitation and modernisation of a main road project in November. Cameroonian deal flow is sparse given ...

I don’t intend for this article to be longer than the new UK Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, but that may be a challenge. The act is only seven pages long, if printed on paper (which, of course, ...