Barclays has provided UK exporter Techflow Marine with a performance guarantee bond and warranty bond using the UK Export Finance (UKEF) bond support scheme.

Standard Bank has signed a ground-breaking deal with independent power producer Aeolus Kenya (AKL), to build a $150-million wind power plant in Kenya. The 60.8MW...

Alexander Malaket, president of OPUS Advisory Services International, and managing director of Trade Finance Associates Ltd, reports on the trade finance and BPO panel at...

Project financing has been secured for a floating production, storage, and offloading system (FPSO) for use in the Tweneboa, Enyenra, Ntomme (TEN) oil fields offshore...

National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia has taken delivery of the final six Boeing 737-800 Next Generation (NG) aircraft under a previously inked 10-year sale and...

The Akkas Gas Field Project in Iraq, where South Korea’s Daewoo Engineering & Construction (Daewoo E&C) is working, is to receive $117 million in guarantees from the...

Energy trading company Vitol has attracted strong interest from international banks resulting in the signing of its $7 billion revolving credit facility (RCF). These...

Russia’s Promsvyazbank (PSB) has signed one-year, dual-tranche loan facility agreement with a syndicate of international banks, amounting to a total of $300 million.

Daniel Riordan, CEO of Global Corporate, Zurich North America has been elected president of the Berne Union – the international association of export credit insurers. He...

Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) has successfully completed a RMB2.5 billion ($408.4 million) cross-border lending deal for the international mobile broadband...

ABN AMRO is targeting growth in commodity structured inventory products (SIP) in Asia-Pacific with the launch of its first dedicated desk in Singapore. The services will...

Energy trading company Gunvor has closed the $675 million long-term secured financing facility for the company’s flagship investment - the Ust Luga Oil Products Terminal...

BNP Paribas (BNPP) and KfW IPEX-Bank have arranged and signed export credit financing amounting to $98 million for the construction of the Tuban 2 cement plant in...

South African banks Nedbank and Rand Merchant Bank are to provide Aureus Mining with a $100 million debt financing package to develop its flagship New Liberty Gold...

Despite turmoil in much of the Middle East, the EMEA region has a wealth of opportunities for growth in trade finance. TXF talks with Sameer Sehgal and Anurag Chaudhary...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has named Percy Batliwalla as the new global head of sales for large corporates and financial institutions in global transaction...

TXF talks to Citi about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.

Jonathan Bell examines the challenges the trade finance sector needs to confront, and find ways to work with, if it is to be a truly profitable business in the years...

TXF talks to Standard Chartered Bank about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.

Alexander Malaket weighs up the pros and cons as Canada’s provision of trade finance looks to service much more than big brother US next door.