Annual business volumes of many insurers and banks are more often than not driven by project finance and large corporate loan transactions. However, when looking at the...

Prices for crude oil and other commodities have been on the decline since last year, as increased production by key producers and weak global demand has left the market...

While whole turn-over credit insurers are accustomed to dealing with seven to 10-year economic cycles in their core OECD market, and to dealing with thousands of small...

If we think about academic research, we often think about theory development and testing with no or little concern for impact on the real world. We sometimes believe that...

Sanctions on Russia and Crimea have introduced additional regulatory and commercial considerations for companies engaging in business transactions with certain parties in...

Oliver Gordon catches up with some leading figures to discuss whether trade finance is still being unfairly penalised under the Basel III framework.

At a time when digitisation, regulation and new liquidity are on the rise, Hesham Zakai explores how these factors are changing the trade-finance landscape.

TXF’s Hesham Zakai ventures into the brave – but not so new – world of supply chain finance vendors and their respective offerings.

Charles Berry, chairman of specialist insurance broker BPL Global, argues that as exporters and banks now often have a choice between ECA and private-sector cover, ECAs...

CC Solutions' Valerie Colville discusses how the US export credit agency’s charter came to expire on 30 June, what is likely to come next, and what can be done to bring...

A funding crisis is developing in the commodities market as producers and traders, particularly of the small and mid-sized variety, struggle to access the type and volume...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has today launched the ICC Global Export Finance Committee – an export finance working group, chaired by Eric de Jonge, global...

Banks cite SME lending (68%) and supply chain finance (61%) facing the greatest pressure from non-bank players. However, many also see new opportunities in strategic...

Matthew Strong has moved from the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) offices in London to take up his new position as head of the credit, political and security (CPS)...

SACE, the Italian export credit agency, has signed a collaboration agreement with digital start-up Workinvoice, the first Italian fintech platform for trading...

If prizes were being dished out for corporate success since the turn of the millennium, the big commodity trading houses would be right up there at the front of the...

BNP Paribas and Intesa Sanpaolo are providing export credit financing to fund the €306 million ($334.7 million) Itare dam project in Kenya. The project, which is backed...

Bermuda-headquartered Textainer Group Holdings, the world’s largest lessor of intermodal containers based on fleet size, has secured an amendment to the margin on its...

Law firm Baker & McKenzie has named Stockholm partner Mattias Hedwall as the new leader of its 450-lawyer global trade & commerce group.

US-headquartered, Castleton Commodities International (CCI) has closed two committed credit facilities totalling $3.75 billion. The funds will be used for general...