Most weather-index insurance pilot projects in Africa fail within three years because of inadequate budgets that don’t allow for scale, weather-station maintenance or...

Developing internal trade corridors for agriculture in Africa and removing obstacles to formal trade will help farmers benefit from rapidly rising food demand in African...

The love affair between banks and traders is sometimes resented by producers, who struggle to access bank finance directly. But traders are the arteries and veins of...

British export growth is still considered to be slow. But with government initiatives, the rise of alternative financiers and active efforts to support companies, this...

Warehouse receipt finance is spreading fast, giving smaller traders and bigger farmers or cooperatives the chance to tap finance immediately while they protect their...

TXF talks to Kah Chye Tan, chairman of the ICC Banking Commission, on the results and meaning of the industry group’s latest trade finance default survey.

Today, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released its Trade Register Report 2014. The empirical evidence from the report points to the fact that trade and...

A new study for ING Commercial Banking by ING’s Economics Department provides conclusive evidence that the relationship between Western Europe and Central and Eastern...

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has launched Surecomp’s allTRA multi-entity Java trade finance system in Singapore.

TXF talks with several Asia-Pacific heads of export finance about trends and prospects for the business line in the region.

Deutsche Bank has appointed Jens Ruebbert as chief country officer (CCO) and head of global transaction banking (GTB), Deutsche Bank, Vietnam.

Orpic (Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company) and a consortium of 21 international and national financial institutions have signed a $2.8 billion umbrella...

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has recruited James Burdett as its group’s new chief financial officer (CFO). Burdett joins the Emirates bank from Australia and New...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States US Ex-Im has appointed the 11 members to its 2014 sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee.

Perth, Australia headquartered oil exploration company Tap Oil has signed a borrowing base debt facility with BNP Paribas (BNPP) for up to $90 million, primarily to fund...

Jonathan Bell talks with Andrew Voysey, director, finance sector platforms, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), about the Banking...

Jonathan Bell talks with Paul Cohen Dumani, general manager of MIT, about the company’s highly successful commodity finance collateral management software system for...

Solena Fuels is to construct a new facility that transforms landfill waste into jet fuel with the support of British Airways. The facility, which will be the first of its...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has forecast that global trade will grow at a modest rate of 4.7% in 2014, and at a slightly faster rate of 5.3% in 2015.

Barclays has appointed Karl Trumper as head of trade & working capital UK.