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Economy minister says protection of semiconductor sector is important and Germany is not naive

The bilateral deal represents the first major agreement between a European nation and a non-EU country aimed at leveraging the reach of the EU's Next Generation programme, from which Spain will receive €70 billion euros ($73.33 billion). It is expected to be signed on Wednesday between the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Spain's investment agency Cofides during Emir Shekih Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani's visit to the Spanish capital, one of the sources said.

There is a need for collective definitions and methodologies to better interpret the multitude of existing sustainable frameworks to apply within export finance. TXF Intelligence's Sustainability in Export Finance report collated deal flow from the past five years and applied its own set of ESG metrics to ratify our data.

With financial institutions increasingly stepping back from trade finance, in particular supporting commodity SMEs, TXF spoke to Lilia Wernli, CEO and Partner at Maxwer Group, to outline how alternative commodity financing solutions are helping to plug trade’s $2.5 trillion funding gap.

The Commodity Finance Data Report 2021, which comprises an in-depth overview of commercial loans in the commodities industry, was published this week. Here are some of the highlights.