The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Cargill are investing $2.5 million to strengthen and expand the successful Cargill Coop Academy in Cote d’Ivoire. The...

Oman Oil Company (OOC), the Sultanate’s energy investment arm, has signed a revolving credit facility (RCF) agreement totalling $1.85 billion with 16 local, regional and...

One of the biggest challenges with warehouse receipt finance is that it needs to reach a certain scale before the perceived benefits to farmers and traders justify the...

Collateral management is an essential element in the warehouse receipt finance process and the further extension of commodity exchanges. And closely associated with that,...

Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution, has approved up to $50 million in direct financing to American...

Despite having nearly 20% of the world’s cultivated land, Africa’s share of the global agricultural market measured by insurance premiums paid is smaller than 1%,...

Intesa Sanpaolo and Italian export credit agency Sace have signed an agreement to jointly support the export and internationalisation of projects in China being...

Energy trading company Vitol has closed its $2.05 billion loan to fund the acquisition of the downstream businesses of Shell Australia (excluding aviation).

Export-oriented economies benefit from new jobs, more innovation, reduced welfare costs and economic stability. Creating growth through trade is an elemental part of the...

Deutsche Bank has created a new role for the management of renminbi (RMB)-related activity across its global operations, the global head of RMB services, and appointed...

Global commodities trader Trafigura has announced that company co-founder and chairman Claude Dauphin has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer, with...

Project development company Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) has signed the financing documents amounting to €623 million ($859 million) with a group of financial...

Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (Zesco) has signed a $163 million export financing agreement with Nordea and Standard Bank to finance the company’s north-western...

First Quantum Minerals (First Quantum) has formally mandated banks to arrange a new $2.5 billion five-year term loan and revolving credit facility. The company has also...

The ICC Trade Register has assisted the industry and policy-makers in developing a pool of data to evaluate the long-held claim that trade and export finance is a...

TXF talks to Nordea about some of the major trends impacting the export credit sector at the present time.

Alexander Malaket reviews the role of the export credit agencies and examines how they are continuing to evolve, while also posing some thought-provoking questions.

TXF looks at two recent reports, one from HSBC and one from the IADB, which focus on infrastructure trade and infrastructure investment as vital cogs in the health of the...

South African coal mining company, Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL), has signed an 18-month, R210 million (approximately $21.4 million) working capital facility from...

Italy’s export credit agency Sace is guaranteeing loans in favour of Eskom Holdings (Eskom), the South African energy public utility wholly, related to some of the...