Russia’s Sberbank has signed a general financing agreement with Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), under which financing amounting to $600 million will be...

Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has signed a collaboration pact with Tata Africa Services and John Deere Financial, whereby Stanbic IBTC Bank will...

XL Group's political risk and trade credit business has hired Jeffrey Abramson as senior vice president and global product leader for its expansion into the Supplier...

A bank syndicate has arranged a $1.5 billion pre-payment facility for trading company Trafigura, to be used for oil purchases in Russia. Trafigura will use the...

The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (PTA Bank) has received a cash injection form the African Development Bank (AfDB), which is designed to boost...

International law firm King & Spalding has hired Alejandro Jara, former deputy director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as senior counsel in the WTO and...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) has extended a €18.2 million ($24.7 million) credit facility to Senegal-based Groupe Futurs Media (GFM) for the import and...

Russkaya Mednaya Kompaniya (Russia Copper Company – RCC) has launched a pre-export finance (PXF) facility of up to $250 million.

Swiss-headquartered agri-trading company Ecom Agroindustrial has signed its latest revolving credit facility (RCF), originally launched in August (TXF News 12 August).

Russian aluminium producer Rusal has made changes in its finance directorate and appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO).

Swiss-headquartered, specialist natural resource trading and transportation company, AMCI, has hired Harris Antoniou as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective 1...

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has provided more than ZAR180 million ($18.2 million) financing to a 27MW wind project near Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has recruited Claudia Slacik as chief banking officer and senior vice president for export finance. She joins US...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) is supporting the purchase of two American-manufactured agricultural aircraft by a Brazilian soybean and...

We are pleased to bring you the TXF Trade and Supply Chain Finance Special Report 2013. The report, which is part of our Trade and Supply Chain Finance Series

Natixis has appointed Christopher Lovgren as global head of loan syndication. He will be based in London. Lovgren will report to Alain Gallois, global head of the debt...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing $500 million to build a power transmission system needed to deliver clean electricity from wind and solar power projects in...

EKN, Sweden’s export credit agency (ECA) has signed a cooperation agreement with Mexico’s ECA Bancomext. The agreement is a declaration of intention to cooperate to...

French development finance institution Proparco has signed a $10 million loan with Golden Rice, the first jasmine rice exporter in Cambodia. The funds will be used to...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed to provide a €11.15 million ($15 million) loan to the Macedonian Air Navigation Service Provider...