Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has named Percy Batliwalla as the new global head of sales for large corporates and financial institutions in global transaction...
TXF talks to Citi about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
Jonathan Bell examines the challenges the trade finance sector needs to confront, and find ways to work with, if it is to be a truly profitable business in the years...
TXF talks to BNP Paribas about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
TXF talks to Standard Chartered Bank about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
Alexander Malaket weighs up the pros and cons as Canada’s provision of trade finance looks to service much more than big brother US next door.
In a landmark transaction and development for Nigeria and West Afirca, Nigeria’s Dangote Industries has signed a medium-term $3.3 billion loan agreement with a consortium...
International commodities trading and logistics company Trafigura, has opened a new Russia-based business - Trafigura Eurasia, which the company sees as a vital cog in...
VTB Bank’s Shanghai branch, the only Russian bank with a Chinese financial operation licence, has begun conducting transactions in renminbi (RMB) for corporate clients...
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has made several appointments expanding its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales team within global transaction banking...
Deutsche Bank has opened a new branch in Qingdao, China following the approval from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC). The Qingdao branch is the bank’s sixth...
Russia’s VEB Leasing has received a boost to its operations with the signing of a RUB30 billion ($897 million) credit line provided by VTB Bank. The facility has an...
Standard Chartered (StanChart) has set up a global treasury solutions team for its transaction banking business. The team is responsible for providing best practice...
Albania’s Union Bank Albania has been able to expand its trade finance offering following an injection of funds from the IFC. The funds will specifically be used to...
Russian fertiliser production company EuroChem has signed a $1.3 billion loan facility on a club basis. The transaction is unsecured, and as such is the company’s first...
Sonangol (Sociedade Nacional de Combustiveis de Angola), the Angolan state-owned oil producer, has signed a $2.5 billion syndicated loan with a 24-strong group of...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has authorized $1.5 billion of export financing for two transactions supporting the export of US goods and services...
Singapore-headquartered, agri-products producer and trading company Olam International (Olam) has signed a $400 million revolving credit facility (RCF), in a syndication...
BNP Paribas (BNPP) has completed a securitisation of commodity trade finance loan receivables, in a $131.6 million transaction through the special platform Lighthouse...
Swiss banking group UBS has selected TRAC (Trade Risk Active Control) – developed by software company MIT – to support its fast growing commodity trade finance (CTF)...
The global backdrop to wind has been looking shaky of late. Project financing backing the Baltic Power project has just signed – but the rest of the first wave of Poland’s embryonic offshore wind sector is facing delays. The country originally promised as much as 28GW by 2050 but the chances of success now look mixed due to inflation and critical cost increases.
Financing the $170 billion African infrastructure gap using domestic capital pools isn’t quite a pie in the sky – there are several financing tools that are already sourcing local investment. But limited savings rates and poor investor appetite are likely to keep any capital dent small for now.
A new study of World Bank trade finance activity glosses over ten years of market evolution.
The global backdrop to wind has been looking shaky of late. Project financing backing the Baltic Power project has just signed – but the rest of the first wave of Poland’s embryonic offshore wind sector is facing delays. The country originally promised as much as 28GW by 2050 but the chances of success now look mixed due to inflation and critical cost increases.
Coming to Cape Town! We are delighted to bring together the export finance and natural resources industries, along with our sister brands Proximo and Uxolo for a networking spectacular.
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TXF Geneva brings together the European commodity finance market for an engaging two days of thought leadership, networking and education
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