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20 April 2015

EKF reports solid growth through troubled 2014

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...

30 March 2015

Commerzbank forecasts future drivers of sustainable trade

There is a general consensus within the banking industry that – as a concept at least – privileging short-term profitability over the long-term health of an institution...

26 March 2015

Louis Dreyfus appoints Asia head of trade finance

Commodity trading company Louis Dreyfus Commodities has appointed Vijay Anand Ramanujam as its new regional head of trade finance for Asia. He is based in Singapore.

26 March 2015

UK Treasury fines UKEF for off-payroll subcontracting

UK export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF) has been fined £500,000 by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.

24 March 2015

EDC and ICBK sign MoU to promote Canada as RMB hub

The Canadian export credit agency (ECA), Export Development Canada (EDC), has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Canadian arm of the Industrial and...

20 March 2015

PrimeRevenue teams up with Supplier Success

PrimeRevenue – the global leader in financial supply chains has announced a new strategic partnership with Supplier Success, the Detroit-based company focused on...

18 March 2015
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Infrastructure

ICC Academy launched in Singapore

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has officially launched its new education and training project, the ICC Academy.

13 March 2015
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Infrastructure, Transport

Maersk Line announces new CFO

Shipping company Maersk Line has announced that Pierre Danet will become the new chief financial officer of the company as of 7 April 2015. He will also be part of the...

13 March 2015

Cash management exits at Commerzbank following sanctions violations

Two employees within Commerzbank’s cash management and international business department will leave the bank, as part of the agreement which saw a $1.45 billion fine...

03 March 2015

JP Morgan appoints new global trade head

According to a memo seen by TXF, JP Morgan have appointed Singapore-based Pravin Advani to new head of global trade and loan products replacing Daniel Cotti

11 February 2015

Oil and gas project risk in North Africa outstrips reward

Oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) projects in North Africa are not sufficiently attractive enough today to counteract the risks of doing business there,...

10 February 2015

France announces new Bank of Exports

French President Francois Hollande has announced the creation of a new ‘Bank of Exports’, to facilitate the finance of major international trade contracts, especially...

04 February 2015

Glencore buys a 50% stake in ADM’s northern Brazil export terminal

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has reached an agreement to sell to Glencore a 50% stake in its export terminal in Barcarena, in the northern Brazilian state of Pará.

04 February 2015

Spar Nord Bank opts for MIT platform

Denmark’s Spar Nord Bank has adopted MIT’s front-to-back trade finance platform in a bid to refresh its operational processes.

02 February 2015

Milbank opens in Korea

The move to Seoul demonstrates the increased importance of Kexim and K-sure business to the firm

28 January 2015

China’s slowdown: The new normal?

At Coface’s annual ‘Country Risk Conference’, which saw the gathering of roughly 1,300 members of the international trade community in Paris’ Carrousel du Louvre, the...

26 January 2015

Agencies combine to finance Jamaica’s largest private sector wind farm

International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), together with the support of the government of Canada have combined to...

26 January 2015

Indonesia’s Danamon and ITFC sign Shariah trade finance cooperation agreement

Bank Danamon Indonesia (Danamon) has signed a trade finance cooperation agreement with the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) which initially provides...

19 January 2015

The BRICS development bank: geopolitical shake up or status quo?

On Friday 16 January, the London School of Economics (LSE) co-hosted a conference with CAF - the Latin American development bank; on geopolitics and the ‘Global South’.

19 January 2015

Regional co-operation key to closing African infrastructure gap

Jean-Louis Ekra, president of the African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank), spoke of fostering collaboration between countries and continents to help reduce Africa’s...