A group of major banks have joined forces with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) to collaborate on the development and use of a new...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has demonstrated its support for crisis-hit Ukraine with a pledge to invest at least €5 billion in the country...

James Burrows has been appointed senior vice president for the small business group at the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Saudi Arabian telecommunications company Mobily (Etihad Etisalat) has agreed two new financings amounting to SAR2.1 billion ($560 million) backed by the export credit...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has joined forces with Nordea Bank to support a €123 million ($170 million) modernisation of two manufacturing...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has provided a boost to Morocco’s export and import community in the form of a $40 million trade finance line to...

Germany’s KfW IPEX-Bank (KfW) is providing a $109 million loan to Mississippi Silicon for the construction of a silicon metal manufacturing plant in the United States....

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has expanded its global transaction services division, appointing Ray Zabarte as its new head of trade services. Zabarte, who was...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States has guaranteed a $300 million loan by the Apple Bank for Savings to China’s Minsheng Financial Leasing (MSFL) for the purchase...

The National Bank of Egypt (NBE) has received the second half of a $100 million loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development aimed at helping businesses...

South Stream Transport (SST) has placed an order for 75,000 12-metre pipes to be used in the construction of the South Stream pipeline in a sign of the project’s...

Supply chain finance provider Crossflow Payments has strengthened its business development team with the appointment of Alistair Ward and Peter Renshaw as business...

India’s largest steel company, JSW Steel, has received an export finance loan of approximately €15 million ($21 million) that will allow it to expand its production site...

Keaton Energy, the South African coal mining and development company, has concluded a R350 million ($32 million) financing facility from Investec Bank, of which R300...

Bpifrance, the French public investment bank, has announced a new funding mechanism aimed primarily at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help French businesses...

NOP Agrowind has secured €350 million ($480 million) in loans to construct 26 wind turbines in the Netherlands from a consortium of Rabobank, KfW IPEX-Bank and the...

KfW IPEX-Bank is financing a cruise ship commissioned by Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCCL) to be built by Meyer Werft – the third Quantum-class cruise ship built at the...

The new year is set to usher in new political risks, largely focused around upcoming elections in India, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa and Indonesia. Some of the old risks...

Canada’s export credit agency, Export Development Canada (EDC), has continued its expansion across the Andes with the establishment of a permanent representative office...

Deutsche Bank has established a new global solutions unit in the trade finance/cash management for corporates (TF/CMC) section of its global transaction banking division,...