Charles Berry, chairman of specialist insurance broker BPL Global, argues that as exporters and banks now often have a choice between ECA and private-sector cover, ECAs...

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...

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,...

KfW IPEX-Bank, the international export and project financier, has collaborated with Danish export credit agency Eksport Kredit Fonden (EKF) to provide senior-debt...

MOST INNOVATIVE ECA/PROJECT FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon examines Indonesia's Sarulla Geothermal Power Plant project financing, which charts new territory for...

Highland Group Holdings (HGHL), Siemens Financial Services (SFS) and Copenhagen Infrastructure II fund have arranged and closed the project financing for the 400 MW Veja...

The boards of the two international factoring associations - Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Factors Group (IFG) – have put forward a formal proposal...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) has agreed to support Aceria de Angola’s (ADA’s) construction and operation of a greenfield 250,000 tons per year...

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...