The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has appointed Charles J ‘CJ’ Hall as executive vice president and chief risk officer. He has 35 years of...
French-headquartered development finance institution Proparco has signed a $50 million loan with the pan-Aafrican banking group Ecobank. The loan was signed with...
French bank Natixis is expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific with two new hires for its regional banking platform within trade and treasury. Yuri Lin has been appointed...
Standard Chartered Bank (StandChart) and Agricultural Bank of China Limited (AgBC) have signed an agreement to collaborate to provide renminbi (RMB) clearing services in...
A consortium led by ACWA Power International has signed the financing agreements for the 2060MW Rabigh 2 independent power project (R2IPP) power project in Saudi Arabia.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has launched new transaction service capabilities for clients doing business in Brazil. The products are designed to help companies...
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Enel Green Power International, the financial and controlling holding company of international subsidiaries of the Enel Green Power...
Development finance institutions (DFIs) have teamed to provide financing support amounting to $220 million for the first large-scale renewable energy IPP in Jordan, the...
Indonesian state-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Pelindo III) has secured export credit agency-backed financing for the purchase of shipyard cranes from...
In a recent poll taken at the TXF Short-Term Trade and Supply Chain Finance conference in Munich, participants were most excited by automation in the sector, saw BPO as...
Structured commodity financier Gilles Sayer has joined Essar as managing director of Peak Trading Overseas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Essar Global Fund. In this...
Italian export credit agency (ECA) and insurance and financial group Sace, has opened a representative office in Mexico City. The ECA says that the move comes about due...
Russian mining and metals company Mechel, has received the first tranche of the project financing for the Elga Coal Complex’s first stage of development. The company is...
Standard Chartered (StanChart) has structured and closed a S$45 million ($35.8 million) senior debt facility for United Envirotech Water (Changyi) Company (UE Water) to...
Russia’s Inter RAO group is to receive funds from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to construct a gas-fired power station in Russia’s...
Bolero International and China Systems, a leading trade services solutions vendor, have established a strategic partnership designed to assist clients involved in trade...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has approved a $61.1 million direct loan to Inversiones Eolicas de Orosi Dos (Orosi) to support the export of...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the revival of the Kyrgyz capital’s trolleybus service with the arranging of a financing...
Mercuria Energy Trading and Mercuria Asia Group Holdings have signed, as joint borrowers, the group’s latest Asian-centred revolving credit facilities (RCF) finalised at...
The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest military insurgence in the gas-rich region, and ECAs and banks reticent on when the deal will close, meeting conditions precedent seems ambitious in 2024.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
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