Taking home TXF’s Overall Commodities Finance Deal of the Year Award 2019, China’s Cofco signed the largest loan for a trading company yet which is linked to...

TXF’s ‘in viro veritas’ series looks at the effects of the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic on trade and export finance. The first in the series was an early stage call to...

Tat Yeen Yap. the former head of product management Asia, trade finance, for Societe Generale, argues that the crisis could be a catalyst for electronic presentations of...

TXF spoke with Valentino Gallo, founding partner at Javalyn Partners, an independent structured asset management firm that specialises in infrastructure and trade...

Overall volumes of global commodity finance fell by 16% in 2019 compared to 2018, according to the full-year TXF 2019 Commodity Finance Report, while structured commodity...

During a volatile time for global trade and the commodities market amid the coronavirus pandemic, TXF spoke to Jean Woo, partner at Ashurst in Singapore, to discuss how...

International financial institutions (IFIs) namely the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the IMF, have signaled plans to extend more than $400 billion in...

Carol Berndt has been appointed ANZ’s managing director for global transaction banking (GTB), leaving her role as global head of transaction services (GTS) at RBS.

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 State Bank of India (SBI) has signed a $200 million loan agreement with the Export- Import Bank of Korea (Kexim).

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) have signed a cooperation agreement to support supply chain financing in Asia It is the first...

BBVA has arranged two loans for Enel Green Power (EGP) in Mexico and in Chile in separate loan agreements each valued at $150 million. In the first instance, the bank...

Russia’s Vnesheconombank VEB has signed a credit agreement with Belvnesheconombank (Bank BelVEB) of Belarus to facilitate the export of engines and related...

Russia’s VTB Bank has announced that it arranged deals worth more than $4 billion in 2013 as part of a drive to develop its international trade and export finance...

Russia’s Sberbank Corporate & Investment Banking (Sberbank CIB) has reported a record number of trade finance and documentary operations (TF&DO) implemented for the...

VTB Leasing and JP Morgan Chase Bank. signed a loan agreement to support the sale of US-manufactured P&H mining equipment to Russia. JP Morgan is providing a...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing (KTZ), the national railways company with a $ 40 million loan.

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has signed a $250 million syndicated term loan facility marking its debut in the international syndicated loan market. The...

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...

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has appointed Bernard Shum as the head of corporate & institutional banking in Hong Kong to lead the expansion of NBAD’s business...