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TXF: 20 Minutes With
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TXF: 20 Minutes With is your fast-track to expert insights in Export, Trade, and Commodity finance. In just 20 minutes, our editorial team sits down with top financiers, leading exporters, and industry decision-makers to unpack the biggest deals, innovative strategies, and emerging trends shaping global trade.
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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.
In this three part series, Exile Group CEO Dan Sheriff speaks to Gaby Buck, Founder & Managing Director, GKB Ventures and Chris Leeds, Senior Consultant at UKEF, on the ghosts of export finance past, present, and future. In this final instalment, our guests look to the future of export finance.
In this three part series, Exile Group CEO Dan Sheriff speaks to Gaby Buck, Founder & Managing Director, GKB Ventures and Chris Leeds, Senior Consultant at UKEF, on the ghosts of export finance past, present, and future. In today’s episode, our guests discuss what the export finance market looks like today, and how this could impact the industry’s future.
In this three part series, Exile Group CEO Dan Sheriff speaks to Gaby Buck, Founder & Managing Director, GKB Ventures and Chris Leeds, Senior Consultant at UKEF, on the ghosts of export finance past, present, and future. In our first episode, guests reminisce about some of the exciting transactions they were part of in the 1990s, considering how yesterday’s landscape encouraged more innovative deals.
In this week's round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
Korea has unveiled a new package of trade finance support measures totalling USD$245 billion in an effort to boost export growth
JBIC has backed an untied €800 million deal for 5G infrastructure in Germany
US Exim has approved a $527 million financing for a combined cycle gas turbine plant in Guyana
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In this week's round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
UK Export Finance has confirmed its support for a £9 billion Poland defence exports deal
Glencore has closed a $300 million credit facility with Saudi Exim
EIFO and KUKE are backing healthcare facilities in Ivory Coast with a €171 million financing
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
Indonesia is set to sign a $1.1 billion SACE-backed loan for defence equipment
Energy trader Vitol has closed almost $12 billion in financing across a pair of RCFs
Sri Lanka has restructured around $4 billion in Chexim debt as part of its ongoing talks with bilateral and sovereign creditors
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The TXF Global Commodity Finance and Sustainable Natural Resources event is set to kick off in Amsterdam on 22 May. In this special pre-event podcast, TXF reporter Ralph Ivey speaks to Hugo Brodie, Head of Product Development and Innovation at the London Metal Exchange, about sustainability in the metals business and maintaining an orderly market amid complex geopolitical tensions.
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
Ukraine has amended its ECA charter to include military risks as part of a push to re-establish its insurance products
Louis Dreyfus Company and Olam Agri have each submitted offers to acquire Namoi cotton, the Australian cotton processor
JBIC, NEXI and the EIB are supporting a €131 million package for a new geothermal power plant located in Germany
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
Kexim, K-Sure and JBIC have announced new deals to support critical mineral projects in Argentina and Chile while EDC has expressed interest in Australian rare earths
Finnvera has closed a $1.5 billion deal that supports exports of Nokia's 5G technology for Reliance Jio in India
The LME is set to impose new rules to limit profiteering from rent-sharing agreements after the US and the UK announced new sanctions on Russian metal
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
The EU has proposed an amendment to the OECD Arrangement that would effectively ban ECA financing for the fossil fuel value chain
Trafigura has secured a $560 million financing with JBIC and SMBC that is linked to LNG imports for Japan
SACE has released its annual numbers for 2023 after a year in which it led the way as the most active ECA in the market
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
JBIC has agreed a pair of buyer credit deals with the Mexican utilities company CFE related to two new combined cycle gas power plants
Kexim has opened offices in Poland as it looks to build on Korea's emerging economic partnerships in eastern Europe
Trafigura has pleaded guilty to US charges of bribery in Brazil and will pay $126 million in fines
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
A group of ECAs have provided direct lending services as part of a major $2.5 billion financing for expansion at Chile's Centinela copper mine
Glencore is considering plans for its coal business as it finalises a deal to acquire assets from Teck Resources
Norwegian ECA Eksfin has agreed a deal to provide €525 million to Orsted for the UK's Hornsea 3 offshore wind farm
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
Olam Food Ingredients has secured a $500 million samurai facility with the backing of the Italian ECA SACE
Trafigura has closed a total of $5.6 billion through its annual European RCFs with a total of 54 financial institutions
HSBC is leading the push to secure equity investment and debt facilities for the UK's Sizewell C nuclear plant with the support of UKEF
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
Four US banks have decided to quit the Equator Principles, an industry benchmark measuring the environmental impact of project finance
Siemens Energy has agreed a €4 billion credit as part of its efforts to secure the future of its embattled wind turbine unit, Siemens Gamesa
Gunvor has pleaded guilty to charges of bribery in the US after a long-running probe into its activities in Ecuador
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
A former Vitol oil trader has been found guilty of corruption by a New York court as part of a US Justice Department probe
Serbia is in talks with UKEF for support as it considers plans to invest heavily in its energy sector
Australia has published a new defence exports strategy in a bid to increase its share of the international military industry
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In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Ralph Ivey covers the latest stories and trends across the market:
Eutelsat is in discussions with ECAs in India, France and the UK over support for its second generation OneWeb satellites
Sumitomo Heavy Industries is set to depart the shipbuilding business after more than 125 years of activity
Polymetal has agreed a $3.69 billion deal to sell its Russian assets to a Siberian gold miner
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