India’s microfinance industry has been through the mill in recent years. One microfinance institution (MFI) that has also faced its share of problems – but has weathered...
Agriculture forms the backbone of many economies in the Pacific Islands. Despite their geographic remoteness, a handful of islands are quietly building burgeoning export...
Tony Elumelu is chairman of Nigeria-based investment company Heirs Holdings and conglomerate Transcorp. He is also founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, a philanthropic...
Today, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released its Trade Register Report 2014. The empirical evidence from the report points to the fact that trade and...
The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) have combined to provide a $350 million political risk...
Commodity trading group Glencore Xstrata (Glencore) has signed its annual revolving credit facilities for a total amount of $15.3 billion.
Steven Mayo has joined Siemens Financial Services (effective as of June 2nd), taking on a business development role supporting the company’s wind turbine operations.
Jamaica’s first digital agricultural clearing house using SMS to Web technology will launch in August, connecting small farmers with buyers.
East Africa-focused microfinance platform Musoni will extend to Uganda by year-end, focusing from the start on rural regions and agricultural finance, according to CEO...
AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, a US-based provider of funding and financial services to agricultural credit associations, has selected SunGard’s Ambit Commercial Lender to...
It is now over a year since it became apparent that a major coffee rust outbreak was developing over a wide area of Latin America, ranging from Mexico in the north, to...
TXF is delighted to be the official media partner for this year’s Fin4Ag conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Running from July 14 to 18 at the Kenya School for Monetary...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to provide a loan of up to $40 million to over 30 farms and grain elevators across Ukraine owned by...
Swiss-headquartered agricultural commodity trading group Ecom Agroindustrial Asia has closed its latest revolving credit facility (RCF), initially launched earlier this...
China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (Cofco) has struck an agreement with Hong Kong-headquartered commodity trading company Noble Group to buy a 51% in...
The tourism industry in Myanmar is receiving a boost from the IFC, which is lending $80 million to Shangri-La subsidiaries to develop its hospitality business in the...
An initiative, announced today, could soon see the establishment of the new Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX). And beyond this, there is the potential for the GCX to become...
Swiss-headquartered agricultural commodity trading group Ecom Agroindustrial Asia has launched a $300 million, 364-day revolving credit facility (RCF) into the market.
Barclays Business has appointed Steve Childs as head of international and trade for business banking. He will be based in London, UK.
The IFC has launched a risk-sharing facility with Banque Internationale pour le Commerce et l’Industrie du Sénégal (BICIS) that will improve access to finance for the...
The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest military insurgence in the gas-rich region, and ECAs and banks reticent on when the deal will close, meeting conditions precedent seems ambitious in 2024.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
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.
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