Global mining company First Quantum Minerals has reached an agreement with its bankers to amend a covenant within its existing trade facilities. Making the...
Athens-headquartered, New York-listed shipping line Star Bulk has just released its results for 2014 and also provides an update on more recent financing undertaken by...
Commodity trading company Trafigura Beheer has today announced that Christophe Salmon will become the company’s new chief financial officer (CFO) as of 1 October 2015.
Shanghai-headquartered photovoltaic (PV) solar manufacturing company JinkoSolar Holding has entered into a strategic financing agreement with China Minsheng Banking...
In the third interview of our commodity trader series, Mercuria Energy Trading CFO, Guillaume Vermersch, tells Helen Castell how its deal to buy JPMorgan’s physical...
Citi has appointed Yusuf Ali Khan as a managing director and new head of trade for the Middle East, North Africa, (MENA) plus the jurisdictions of Turkey and Pakistan.
Why January’s drop in exports may not be such bad news | Chinese exports in January 2015 fell by 3.3% compared to a year earlier.
The United States exported a record $2.35 trillion of goods and services in 2014, according to data released by the US Department of Commerce.
Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has reached an agreement to sell to Glencore a 50% stake in its export terminal in Barcarena, in the northern Brazilian state of Pará.
Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) and Natixis have announced the closing of the debt financing for Seabras-1, the new subsea fibre optic cable system between the commercial and...
Standard Bank Group has signed the closing documents with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) to cement the completion of the disposal of a 60% stake...
Commodity trading company Trafigura has hired a new chief financial officer for its North American operations.
China’s renminbi (RMB) has become the world’s fifth most-used currency, after overtaking both the Australian and Canadian dollars, in what may prove to be a prophetic...
Commodity trading company Trafigura has launched syndication of its annual major European revolving credit facility (RCF). Eight international banks are acting as initial...
The financing for the Shams Ma’an solar photovoltaic project in Jordan has closed with commercial banks combining with Japanese export credit agencies to meet the overall...
Houston-headquartered energy company, Plains All American Pipeline, has secured a major new credit facility, giving it the additional liquidity needed for working capital...
Biosev, the Brazilian sugar and ethanol arm of French commodity trading firm Louis Dreyfus, has signed a loan with an international bank group, designed to increase its...
On Friday 16 January, the London School of Economics (LSE) co-hosted a conference with CAF - the Latin American development bank; on geopolitics and the ‘Global South’.
Political risk across a number of global fronts will continue into 2015 and Political Monitor takes a look at 5 key risks to watch.
HSBC has appointed Takahisa Yano as director, country head of global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) Japan, effective since 5 January 2015.
In advance of her appearance at TXF Global in Athens, Reta Jo Lewis, President and Chair of Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) spoke to TXF about the importance of ‘getting out there’ to be face to face with exporters, financiers and the industry. There’s no point sitting back and waiting for business to come to the agency, she says.
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
Tim Reid, CEO of UK Export Finance, discusses the lenses through which the ECA will define the success of its new business plan, which builds on its record as the fourth most active ECA in 2023 according to TXF Intelligence.
In advance of her appearance at TXF Global in Athens, Reta Jo Lewis, President and Chair of Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) spoke to TXF about the importance of ‘getting out there’ to be face to face with exporters, financiers and the industry. There’s no point sitting back and waiting for business to come to the agency, she says.
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