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,...

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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’.

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

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is increasing the availability of financing to private businesses in Romania with a loan to Bucharest-based...

Oslo-headquartered shipowner and operator Avance Gas Holding (AGHL) has secured new bank financing from a club of international banks for the purchase of four very large...

US Ex-Im Bank, the American ECA, has appointed a new vice president for project and structured finance

Empresa de Transporte de Pasajeros Metro (Metro), the state-owned owner and operator of the subway system in Santiago, Chile, has closed the financing relating to...

Swiss-headquartered commodity trading company Mercuria Energy has moved more intensely into the shipping fuel sector with the hire of personnel from the Danish-owned OW...

Indonesia was voted the borrower destination that brought most opportunity for export finance, at a recent industry poll taken at the TXF ECA Finance Asia conference,...

The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is launching two loan facilities for banks in Denmark and Finland.

KfW IPEX-Bank has signed an agreement to finance the construction of 10 new river cruise ships for Viking River Cruises (VRC), the world's leading river cruise company.

US banks Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan have come under heavy criticism from the US Senate over their influence on key commodities such as aluminium and oil....

Sace, the Italian export credit agency (ECA), has launched a new fund, targeted at non-listed Italian companies, with a special attention on SMEs and mid-caps.