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TXF spoke with James Esdaile, managing director at BPL Global, to discuss the significant exposure private insurers have to short-term trade credit and supply chain finance risk amid the Covid-19 crisis, as ECAs re-enter the private market as concerns grow over the sector being under strain. Will the pandemic change the dynamic of the CPRI market? And how will the private sector look in the wake of coronavirus?

TXF’s ‘in viro veritas’ series looks at the effects of the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic on trade and export finance. The first in the series was an early stage call to action, the second showed ECAs picking up their activities and this, the third, looks at more a coordinated response from institutions.

There’s been a lot of activity behind the scenes at ECAs amid the abrupt systemic shock of coronavirus. Some have been faster, and some more transparent communicators, than others. Is it a judge of character? TXF looks at the degrees of action in the market and applauds those taking steps to help SMEs and smaller businesses. After all, it’s the sector many profess to want to support in times of need, and now is a great opportunity.

In the first episode of TXF's "In viro veritas?" series, Katharine Morton says the new coronavirus, Covid-19, is shining a light on just how connected global trade is to the world’s second largest economy. TXF takes a look at how China will officially support its trade and we ask whether global ECAs need to be taking note. ‘Think Global, Act Local’ may be apt for world trade and the response to the disease.

Gautier Mangenot, VP of business development at Entrepose Group, a subsidiary of Vinci, talks to TXF about the challenges of facilitating energy infrastructure throughout the value change, and the growing role of ECA support in southeast Asia.

At TXF Asia 2019, Dominik Kloiber, co-founder of TXF spoke with Paul Richards, global head of export finance at ANZ, Isabel Galdiz, vice president of international relations at US Exim, and Vineyesh Sawhney, senior vice president of Reliance Industries to discuss the seminal but growing trend of sustainability in ECA finance.

TXF caught up with Marcus Miller of JLT Marsh to discuss the merger of Marsh and Jardine Lloyd Thompson earlier this year. Miller discusses mergers like JLT Marsh's in the market generally, as well as the trade finance markets coming into the new year.

Indonesia’s state-owned power utility PLN has yet to close a single power project financing in 2019 amid a year of economic slowdown and elections. However, Teguh Harsono, vice president of funding at PLN says 2020 will be a very different story

In a brief moment of reprise at the TXF PRI conference in London, TXF had a chat with Stephen Renna, chief banking officer of US EXIM. With the reauthorization bill of US EXIM looming, the vote set to take place in the senate on the 20th December, Mr Renna seems positive about the organisation’s future.

Massimo Falcioni, CEO at Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) talks to TXF about how the UAE’s new ECA has been set up and made operational in record time, and how its plans for the future are being lifted by digitisation and partnership.