Turkey’s Akbank has signed the accordion option of its $275 million three-year term loan facility that it originally agreed to in early July. The addition of the...

Matthew Strong has moved from the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) offices in London to take up his new position as head of the credit, political and security (CPS)...

ING Capital in New York has closed a US Export-Import Bank (US Ex-Im ) guaranteed financing totalling $589 million for Vietnam Airlines (VNA). The financing relates to...

Asian American Gas Holdings (AAG Energy) a leading and independent coalbed methane (CBM) producer in China, has secured a $250 million reserve-based lending (RBL)...

WTO director-general, Roberto Azevêdo, has urged development finance institutions to continue to work together to help close the gaps that exist in the provision of trade...

Natural rubber supply chain manager Halcyon Agri Corporation has successfully completed a refinancing of up to $413 million, replacing existing debts with a mix of term...

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has signed a $47 million loan to support the development of the Clarendon solar photovoltaic facility in Jamaica. The...

XL Catlin has promoted Joe Blenkinsopp to the position of chief underwriting officer for its political risk and trade credit (PRTC) team. He is based in London.

International law firm King & Spalding are set to open an office in Tokyo, the firm's eighteenth office overall and tenth office outside the United States. The new Tokyo...

Cristiane Gomes, head of sales & relationship management, South America, BNY Mellon Treasury Services, explores the intensification of economic ties between China and...

Robert Parson and Jonathan Solomon, partners at leading law firm Reed Smith, take a look at the implications for the commodities market of the recent Mercuria v Citigroup...

HSBC has just released its latest Trade Forecast report, which notes that advanced economies look set to sustain global commerce through 2016 before an emerging market...

BEST SOFT COMMODITIES FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Jonathan Bell reviews how Rabobank led the first structured inventory financing for Australia’s GrainCorp.

State-owned Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Co (ORPIC) has secured an OMR350 million ($910 million) syndicated corporate loan facility from local and...

Commodity trading company Trafigura Beheer BV has announced that Jeremy Weir, chief executive officer, is assuming responsibility for the metals and minerals trading...

Singapore-headquartered Puma Energy, a global mid and downstream energy company, has closed its revolving credit (RCF) and term loan facilities amounting to $1.25...

A lack of capacity in the financial sector is severely impacting the trading potential of poor countries, says Roberto Azevêdo, the sixth director general of the World...

Ross Jones, senior product manager, Treasury Services EMEA, BNY Mellon, discusses how banks are left with little choice but to reassess their strategies and up their game...

Brazil’s state-run oil company, Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras), has been charged $2.06 billion for corruption-related costs and $14.8 billion for impairment in the...

International law firm HFW has further strengthened its Paris office corporate finance team with the arrival of partner Jean-Marc Zampa and his associate Serge...