Jonathan Bell talks with Paul Cohen Dumani, general manager of MIT, about the company’s highly successful commodity finance collateral management software system for...

Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) has mandated French bank Natixis to arrange the financing for Seaborn’s new submarine cable project, known as Seabras-1, linking commercial and...

Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac) has expanded its trade teams in Hong Kong and Singapore with some recent appointments.

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

Houston-headquartered, specialist oil exploration company Pacific Drilling has appointed Paul Reese to the role of chief financial officer (CFO), effective 28 February...

HSBC has made three appointments to its global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) team, with Gerd Pircher becoming regional head, Latin America; Wei Wei Ng becoming...

ING Corporate Bank has named Anthony van Vliet as the new global head trade & commodity finance (T&CF). He takes over from Paul van Heerde who has been in charge since 1...

Deutsche Bank today has appointed Maria Cristina (Kika) Ricciardi as head of global transaction banking (GTB) Latin America and head of trade finance and cash management...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has appointed Charles J ‘CJ’ Hall as executive vice president and chief risk officer. He has 35 years of...

ABN AMRO has appointed Peter Boogers as global head of energy within the bank’s energy, commodities and transportation (ECT) business. Boogers is promoted from his...

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...

ABN AMRO is targeting growth in commodity structured inventory products (SIP) in Asia-Pacific with the launch of its first dedicated desk in Singapore. The services will...

Canada’s Scotiabank has completed the Canadian rollout of CGI’s cloud-based, ‘software-as-a-service’ (SaaS) solution, CGI Trade360. The announcement was made at Sibos...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has named Percy Batliwalla as the new global head of sales for large corporates and financial institutions in global transaction...

Jonathan Bell examines the challenges the trade finance sector needs to confront, and find ways to work with, if it is to be a truly profitable business in the years...

Alexander Malaket weighs up the pros and cons as Canada’s provision of trade finance looks to service much more than big brother US next door.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has made several appointments expanding its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales team within global transaction banking...

Brazilian petrochemical products company Braskem has signed a $535 syndicated trade credit loan with a group of banks.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has named Jennifer Boussuge as head of global transaction services (GTS) for EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa). This is an...