With backing from seven ECA’s and 11 commercial banks, KNPC's $6.25 billion Clean Fuels project financing is setting a new benchmark for inter-creditor complexity.

China has been providing the core infrastructure debt to give the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) traction. But even allowing for rising Chinese state debts and a...

A new electronic platform - CCRManager - has found a pragmatic approach to digitalising trade finance processes, and banks are taking notice.

As the trade tech sector begins to play catch-up with other forms of fintech, developers claim banks are not putting enough cash into better security systems - new...

With a growing number of banks, fintechs and patent trolls patenting blockchain software, a new council has been set up to counteract the negative effects of such...

Africa Trade Finance (ATF) and fund manager AcofiGestion have teamed up to launch an independent securitisation vehicle focused on African trade finance loans.

The power of ‘green’ has ballooned in the past decade, as investors look for responsible ways to invest. People are catching wind of the opportunities for investment in...

Maersk and IBM's blockchain trial could revolutionise the shipping container supply chain. But to make real cost savings, all parts of that chain have to adopt the...

Blockchain technology is beginning to gain real traction in trade finance. But as Mercuria found in its recent test of a new ING/SocGen solution, there are still...

TXF Events has unveiled the preliminary agenda for its annual flagship global conference covering project, infrastructure, export & agency finance. TXF Venice 2017: The...

SWIFT’s new GPI service is a vast improvement in payments transaction speed – so why have enhanced security safeguards associated with that speed not been rolled out with...

A UK Court of Appeal decision has strengthened the autonomy of English law letters of credit and provides new guidance as to what constitute fraudulent claims on those...

Technology developers all claim co-operation is key to a globally scalable trade finance solution. But are banks and independents really serious about collaboration or is...

WIth the costs associated with tighter bank regulation dampening the appetite of banks for SME business, and non-bank providers charging heavy margins, the beginnings of...

Come on in, put the kettle on and enjoy TXF’s new podcast where our panel discuss the ‘biggest shift, biggest change’ in trade over the past year, and give their...

Associates of Sullivan & Worcester LLP warn about the underlying complexity of drawing up an insurance policy and the importance of securing lenders’ interests.

Theresa May’s speech last week confirmed what many analysts expected - a hard Brexit and a farewell to the single market. But the speech was broad strokes, and the real...

Seven banks have joined together on KBC’s new Digital Trade Chain (DTC) to aid European small and medium businesses (SMEs) increase trade.

The volume of US Ex-Im export and job support plummeted again in 2016. But against all the political odds the battered ECA still made a profit for the US Treasury –...

A growing number of investors in trade finance funds complain that low default risk trade data provided by the ICC Trade Registry is being used out of context to pitch...