The burning issues facing the trade sector
Jonathan Bell talks with David Hennah, head of trade and supply chain finance, transaction banking, Misys, about the burning issues of regulation and compliance,...
Jonathan Bell talks with David Hennah, head of trade and supply chain finance, transaction banking, Misys, about the burning issues of regulation and compliance,...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a loan of up to €40 million ($45 million) to Raiffeisen Factoring. The loan will allow the...
Shell, the global energy and petrochemicals company, has selected Citi’s treasury and trade solutions (TTS) division as its sole bank provider for cash management...
Olivier Delay has been appointed global head of aviation, export & infrastructure finance at Natixis. He is based in Paris and reports to Pierre Debray, global head of...
Tartaruga MV29 (TARMV29), a company incorporated in the Netherlands in which MODEC, Mitsui & Co, Mitsui OSK Lines, and Marubeni Corporation have equity stakes, has signed...
The Italian export credit company SACE and Turkish bank Yapı Kredi have signed a cooperation agreement designed to bolster and strengthen the platform for export...
The Swiss-headquartered Russian agrichemical EuroChem Group AG has signed a $750 million pre-export finance facility with a club of leading international banks. The funds...
Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex) has arranged and closed a $102 million, syndicated loan in favour of companies belonging to the Favorita Group; a...
Natixis has appointed Jonathan Kim as managing director, head of global infrastructure & projects (GIP) Americas.
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) group, has signed a $3 billion umbrella financing framework...
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) reports that Helios Investment Partners (Helios) has repaid in full a $50 million loan that was issued by the US...
Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon, has appointed Pieter van Ede as head of business development, global trade credit, with immediate effect....
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has today launched the ICC Global Export Finance Committee – an export finance working group, chaired by Eric de Jonge, global...
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have teamed under a co-financing arrangement to arrange and provide $693...
Trade finance specialist Bolero International has appointed former JP Morgan executive Daniel Cotti to its board of directors. In his new role as non-executive director,...
The Standard Bank of South Africa (SBSA) has signed a debut $139.3 million, syndicated Ninja loan facility. The funds will be used by SBSA for trade-related financing....
Trade credit insurer Coface has appointed Yoshihiro Suchi as its new country manager in Japan. The appointment is effective from 28 September 2015.
Singapore-based bulk carrier and chemical tanker owner and operator IMC Holdings (IMC) Group has signed loan agreements to secure funds of $120 million to finance the...
Markel International, the specialist insurer, has appointed Savita Mascarenhas as underwriter for its expanding trade credit operations in Dubai.
Louis Taylor has been appointed as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the United Kingdom’s export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF). He takes up the role in...
Senior practitioners of the trade and export finance community will gather at the University of St Gallen this autumn for another edition of IfTI’s Global Symposium. Expect lively debate around case studies and best practices in trade as geopolitical tensions rise.