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25/07/2022

📣TXF are proud to celebrate our initiative at this year's event in Singapore 🙌, which champions women and other under-represented groups in export finance.

Stages for Change helps you to create meaningful networks that will power your career, and ensure that everybody's voice gets heard.

Stages for change sessions at this year's TXF Asia event include:

Day One: Breakfast mixer powered by Stages for Change. We will welcome guests from under-represented communities in export finance to a relaxed mixer before the main event begins. Use this session to build your network right from the get go.

Day Two: A dedicated session on career paths through export finance, to consider how our diverse group of speakers reached their role in the industry. Why did they choose export finance and how can we encourage more diverse talent into the industry?

We also will be hosting more sessions and initiatives through out this year get in touch with [email protected] to find out more

05/07/2022

was heralded and hyped as a great hope for accessing . Now, with a couple of failures of prominent solutions, questions are being asked. Wagons have circled, but will there be wider implications of the WeTrade and Serai wind-ups on bank and non-bank finance for trade, and are there bigger long-term problems for financing trade?

Read Katharine Morton's take on the future of blockchain, including comments from Sean Edwards, CEO of International Trade & Forfaiting Association (ITFA), Michael Vrontamitis, Lead Industry Principal, Lending Business at Finastra, Alisa DiCaprio, Chief Economist at and Carl Wegner, CEO of here: https://www.txfnews.com/articles/7410/In-the-leafy-month-of-June-A-blockchain-yikes-for-bank-financing-of-SME-trade-?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=txf/subscriptions_weekly

Blockchain was heralded and hyped as a great hope for SMEs accessing trade finance. Now, with a couple of failures of prominent solutions, questions are being asked. Wagons have circled, but will there be wider implications of the We.trade and Serai wind-ups on bank and non-bank finance for trade, a...

23/06/2022

The TXF Global Export, Agency and Project Finance – one of our flagship events took place in Lisbon, Portugal on 7th and 8th June. The hybrid event hosted over 800 physical attendees from 55 countries and 385 companies and institutions. A further 290 people tuned in virtually.

This annual event (albeit in different European locations) - which gathers corporate borrowers and exporters, ECAs, banks, insurers, lawyers and others from around the world - aims to highlight the most prevalent trends facing the export finance market, and how these challenges can be overcome and opportunities realised.

We have summarised the main conference takeaways and the Deal of the Year award results, you can read them in full here - https://www.txfnews.com/News/Article/7402/tmp?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=txf/subscriptions_weekly

16/06/2022

BREAKING: Paul Heaney becomes the new Acting Secretary General of Berne Union

Read the full story here - https://www.txfnews.com/Tracker/Details/cb02d1fd-be98-4ae4-b305-6d8cbc1f7d6a/Heaney-new-Acting-Secretary-General-of-Berne-Union?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=txf/subscriptions_news_tracker

09/06/2022

Mission accomplished! That's a wrap for , and what an event it was. We welcomed over 800 attendees, from over 55 countries and 385 companies. We had 135 speakers, as well as another 300 attendees joining us virtually. Almost 40% of our attendees were from exporters or borrowers and 60% of our speakers were at Global Head, C-Suite (CEO, CFO, COO), Director General or Managing Director Level.

We have had an absolute blast and more importantly the market was able to come together and discuss some of the most pressing issues facing the industry from the , and to and .

It has been a pleasure and an honor. Thank you to the world for your participation in this event! Finally, thank you to our sponsors for your loyalty, commitment and support, throughout COVID and beyond:

ANZ Australia, BNP Paribas Cardif, Citi, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, J.P. Morgan, 三菱UFJ銀行, Santander UK, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Société Générale, Standard Chartered, TD

Bpifrance COSEC, Cesce, Credendo, Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa Soc Ltd - ECIC, Etihad Credit Insurance Credit Insurance (ECI), Export Development Canada - Exportation et développement Canada, EKF Danmarks Eksportkredit, SACE, SEK Svensk Exportkredit, SERV Swiss Export Risk Insurance, UK Trade

African Export Import Bank - Afreximbank, Allen & Overy LLP, AXA XL, BBVA Corporate & Investment Banking, DZ BANK, Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Raiffeisen Bank, UniCredit

Detailed report can be accessed here - http://ow.ly/7EuH50JtpHi

07/06/2022

On the ground in the venue is packed out as we welcome 700 attendees through the door so far and more coming in as we speak. We have just finished our second panel of the day, our 'Leaders debate: Harnessing financial tools to allow trade and export to thrive in a changing world'. With:

Christopher Cox, Global Head of Trade and Working Capital Solutions, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi
Christina Tonkin, Managing Director, Corporate Finance, ANZ Australia,
Massimo Falcioni, CEO, Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI)
Maria José Melo, Head of ECA Department, COSEC
Hesham Zakai, MD, TXF

Next up we take a short break to grab a coffee, network and work the room!

31/05/2022

Open Article | Digitising trade credit insurance

Ben Heaney, CEO of credit insurance e-trading platform Dialogue Exchange, shines the spotlight on the progress of digitally transforming the insurance side of the credit insurance and political risk market – which has traditionally been seen as old fashioned and paper based, reports Sean Keating.

Read the full unlocked article here - https://www.txfnews.com//News/Article/7394/Digitising-trade-credit-insurance?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=txf/subscriptions_weekly

Ben Heaney, CEO of credit insurance e-trading platform Dialogue, shines the spotlight on the progress of digitally transforming the insurance side of the credit insurance and political risk market – which has traditionally been seen as old fashioned and paper based.

26/05/2022

Just under a WEEK left until the Islamic Development Bank Group - isdb.org Private Sector Forum (PSF) in Egypt begins. The three day event — which happens in conjunction with the IsDB Annual Meetings — takes place from 2 to 4 June at the Sharm El Sheikh Tonino Lamborghini International Convention Center in Egypt.

The forum will gather key industry players to discuss what opportunities and financial solutions private sector players have to build back better and greener, with a particular focus on initiatives to support Egypt Vision 2030 and the SDGs.

For more information: https://www.txfnews.com/News/Article/7386/PSF-IsDBs-private-sector-bonanza-?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=txf/subscriptions_weekly

25/05/2022

On 10th and 11th May, the commodity finance industry gathered from all corners of the world at the Amsterdam Conference Centre Beurs van Berlage in the centre of Amsterdam for TXF Global Commodity Finance 2022 – finally back in physical format (as well as virtual) for the first time since 2019!

Throughout the two days of content, we heard from global heads, CEOs, bankers, traders, producers, insurers, fintechs, alternative financiers, investors, law firms and more.

Our very own Aífe Howse, summarises the main conference takeaways and you can read them in full here - https://www.txfnews.com/News/Article/7389/tmp?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=txf/subscriptions_weekly

22/05/2022

Open Article | One step beyond: New UK trade digitisation legislation on track

Trade digitisation has taken a big step forward globally with the announcement that the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill is on its way to becoming law. What’s the significance of this globally?



Katharine Morton got the views of Parson, Southworth, Grandage, & Dasgupta on the new proposal and whether it likely other jurisdictions might follow suit

Read the full unlocked article here - https://www.txfnews.com/News/Article/7382/One-step-beyond-New-UK-trade-digitisation-legislation-on-track?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=txf/subscriptions_weekly



Squire Patton Boggs, International Chamber of Commerce, Norton Rose Fulbright

Trade digitisation has taken a big step forward globally with the announcement that the UK’s Electronic Trade Documents Bill is on its way to becoming law. What’s the significance of this globally? Let’s take some inspiration from Madness.

20/05/2022

Article | ECAs to propel cruise sector recovery

The impact of the suspension of cruising in 2020 had far-reaching effects across the sector, however a full recovery is on the horizon – with ECA support re-emerging as a viable financial template as shipbuilders order.

Jack Coyler, Data Reporter at TXF Media presents his insights on existing conditions of the cruise industry trade following an industry turmoil post-COVID era. Moreover, our data reporter provides expert analysis for the way forward with the help of TXF Intelligence data.

Read the full article here - https://www.txfnews.com/News/Article/7387/ECAs-to-propel-cruise-sector-recovery?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=txf/subscriptions_news_tracker

The impact of the suspension of cruising in 2020 had far-reaching effects across the sector, however a full recovery is on the horizon – with ECA support re-emerging as a viable financial template as shipbuilders order books fill up once again.