Pricing, cost of funding, capital markets, Basel III and the general future for the medium to long term (MLT) lending business continue to be high on the agenda for the...

The top rated sectors for growth in export finance over the next two years are power and infrastructure, according to a poll of close to 300 executives at the recent TXF...

For the second year in a row Germany was voted as the country with the best export credit agency (ECA). This was during a poll completed by over 300 executives at the TXF...

Despite the current sanctions environment, an industry poll at the recent TXF ECA Finance conference in Paris, suggested 25% of the audience had completed an ECA-backed...

Macquarie Group have appointed Guido Musso as managing director for shipping and offshore, within its specialised investment solutions business. Musso is a respected...

The TXF ECA Finance conference in Paris last week seemed the perfect place to update the market on the findings of the 2015 Exporter Survey. Over the past few months,...

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...

BPL Global, the insurance broker, has secured the services of Peter von Guretzky-Cornitz as a representative for the business in Germany.

Barclays Bank have appointed Christian Nehk as head of trade and working capital in Germany. Nehk joins the bank from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) where he worked...

The Berne Union and the associated Prague Club have revealed that in 2014 members’ new business reached close to $2 trillion. The figures demonstrate the strong role the...

Amsterdam-headquartered Advanced Metallurgical Group (AMG) has entered into a new $320 million multi-currency term loan and revolving credit facility (RCF). The facility...

Deutsche Bank’s Daniel Schmand is the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Banking Commission new chairman. Here, he sets out his vision for the trade finance...

BEST AFRICAN ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon examines the details of ERC’s Awash-Weldia/Hara Gebeya Railway project in Ethiopia.

Commodity trading company Gunvor Singapore, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gunvor Group, has signed a $911.7 million syndicated revolving credit facility (RCF). The...

In a recent industry survey, respondents also told TXF they expect US Ex-Im Bank to be re-authorised, but saw German exporters as having the best ECA support

Steel producer NLMK Europe Plate division, a part of NLMK Belgium Holdings group, has signed and closed a new working capital facility with four international banks.

Although the emphasis was very much on SME business at the Export-Import Bank of the United States’s (US Ex-Im’s) annual conference in Washington DC last week, it was the...

An overhaul of the ICC’s Docdex dispute resolution mechanism that will speed up, streamline and make more transparent the process has been launched at the ICC Banking...

The International Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business organisation, has today named Deutsche Bank’s Daniel Schmand as the new chair of its Banking...

Danish export credit agency EKF has just released its annual report for 2014, and says that it in a difficult market it helped to secure contracts to Danish companies...