Jonathan Bell reviews this year’s Ghana Cocobod financing, analyses the record of pricing, and looks at the prospect of further value-added for African soft commodities.

SBM Offshore, a Dutch supplier of floating production and mooring systems, has completed a $1.55 billion export credit agency (ECA)-backed project financing to finance...

Malta-headquartered trade finance bank, FIMBank has appointed Murali Subramanian as its new chief executive officer (CEO). The change comes following a seven-month period...

Open account trade has been growing in GCC markets during the last few years . As a result, some of the more sophisticated companies have started to move to non-recourse...

David Viney, at Finacity Corporation, takes a close look at the management of working capital and how companies can use working capital flexibility as a means of...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has announced that it will provide financial backing for the development, construction, and operation of four solar...

South Africa's state-run logistics and transport company Transnet has secured ZAR2.8 billion ($228 million) financing from Germany’s KfW Development Bank. The funds will...

Ukraine’s leading vertically integrated agribusiness company Kernel has signed a $65 million syndicated working capital credit facility with a group of European...

Today, the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) formally announced the close of the senior phase of its annual pre-export financing for the 2015-2016 cocoa crop. The financing was...

UniCredit Austria has signed a new credit agreement for Russian oil and gas company Gazprom – totaling €300 million ($335 million). The signing took place today at the St...

Singapore-headquartered Puma Energy, a global mid and downstream energy company, has closed its revolving credit (RCF) and term loan facilities amounting to $1.25...

Trade credit insurer Euler Hermes has appointed three regional chief executive officers (CEO) to its German, Austrian, Swiss (DACH), World Agency and French offices, and...

Steel producer NLMK Europe Plate division, a part of NLMK Belgium Holdings group, has signed and closed a new working capital facility with four international banks.

Agricultural trading company Nidera has finally closed a $900 million revolving credit facility (RCF). The facility has been in syndication for over three months, having...

If Quantitative Easing (QE) in Japan and Europe was meant to do anything, it was meant to weaken the yen and the euro in order to stimulate export-led recovery. It is too...

In a heartfelt and enlightening opening speech at the annual US Export-Import Bank meeting, chairman Fred Hochberg spelled out how vital the bank is to compete in an...

Berry Palmer & Lyle (BPL Global), the specialist credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, today announced that, following approval by the Monetary Authority of...

Russian potash producer Uralkali looks set to wrap up a new pre-export finance (PXF) facility by the end of April, TXF has learnt.

ING Bank has closed another Coface-guaranteed financing for Korean Air Lines (Korean Air). The transaction was structured by ING Capital in New York as the sole...

FIMBank group has recently announced its financial results for 2014, in which it posts a pre-tax loss of $53.43 million. This compares to a pre-tax loss of $6.4 million...