HSBC has recruited Bart Ras to its ranks where he will have the title of global head of business development for the bank’s global trade and receivables finance (GTRF)...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has arranged an A/B loan structure to support the planned expansion of Faurecia, a leading global automotive...

Energy trading company Gunvor has closed the $675 million long-term secured financing facility for the company’s flagship investment - the Ust Luga Oil Products Terminal...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) is to provide two direct loans totaling $33.6 million to the Spanish company Abengoa, to facilitate the export of...

BNP Paribas (BNPP) and KfW IPEX-Bank have arranged and signed export credit financing amounting to $98 million for the construction of the Tuban 2 cement plant in...

Canada’s Scotiabank has completed the Canadian rollout of CGI’s cloud-based, ‘software-as-a-service’ (SaaS) solution, CGI Trade360. The announcement was made at Sibos...

India’s YES Bank has successfully closed a loan facility equivalent to $255 million. The facility will be used for general corporate purposes and trade financing for the...

The UK’s Lloyds Bank has signed a partnership agreement with Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) to team in providing enhanced services to its clients importing from...

South African banks Nedbank and Rand Merchant Bank are to provide Aureus Mining with a $100 million debt financing package to develop its flagship New Liberty Gold...

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Abu-Dhabi’s Department of Finance have teamed to set up a partnership for investing in Russian infrastructure projects and...

Despite turmoil in much of the Middle East, the EMEA region has a wealth of opportunities for growth in trade finance. TXF talks with Sameer Sehgal and Anurag Chaudhary...

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...