The role of international trade and its impact on the global economy has been revisited anew since the global economic crisis. This article examines the impact of...
Since the establishment of the Berne Union in 1934 – with the aim of facilitating cross- border trade, by establishing common export credit principles – the role of...
Japanese banks, supported by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (Nexi) have signed export credit financing...
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...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has forecast that global trade will grow at a modest rate of 4.7% in 2014, and at a slightly faster rate of 5.3% in 2015.
Project development company Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) has signed the financing documents amounting to €623 million ($859 million) with a group of financial...
Akbank has signed a $1.36 billion syndicated loan, which sees 35 international banks providing funds to the Turkish institution.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to extend a senior loan of $200 million to Lukoil Overseas Shah Deniz (LSD), a wholly-owned...
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) has secured a $500 million three-year term loan through bookrunners State Bank of India, DBS and RBS
With over 300 attendees at the IFC Global Trade Partners Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal over the past three days, the event demonstrates the success of the IFC’s various...
Johan Schrijver, the former managing director of the Dutch export credit agency Atradius, has set up a new consultancy, Schrijver & Partners, to advise businesses and...
Gunvor Group has signed a $1.515 billion revolving credit facility (RCF) for joint borrowers Gunvor International BV and Gunvor SA in a syndication which saw heavy...
Development finance institutions (DFIs) have teamed to provide financing support amounting to $220 million for the first large-scale renewable energy IPP in Jordan, the...
Berne Union, the association of export credit insurers, today announced the retirement of secretary general Peter Jones.
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...
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.
The EBRD is lending RUB1.7 billion ($53.4 million) to UniCredit Leasing Russia (UCLR) – one of the country’s top leasing companies, with nationwide coverage. The...
Daniel Riordan, CEO of Global Corporate, Zurich North America has been elected president of the Berne Union – the international association of export credit insurers. He...
Albania’s Union Bank Albania has been able to expand its trade finance offering following an injection of funds from the IFC. The funds will specifically be used to...
As external funding withdrawal in emerging Europe generates increasing concern, agencies and banks have met to discuss the issues and trends. The Vienna 2 Initiative...
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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