Agri-trading company Cargill and Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer have reached agreement to combine their sugar trading activities in a new joint venture company.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Robert Morin as senior vice president for business and...

Deutsche Bank has created a new role for the management of renminbi (RMB)-related activity across its global operations, the global head of RMB services, and appointed...

Agricultural producer and trading company Bunge has signed its three year, $1.75 billion revolving credit facility (RCF). The transaction was initially launched in...

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

An initiative, announced today, could soon see the establishment of the new Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX). And beyond this, there is the potential for the GCX to become...

Deutsche Bank’s global transaction banking division has appointed Vikas Arora as head of trade finance and cash management for corporates (TF/CMC) in ASEAN (Association...

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Sander Hansen as its new Asia head of structured trade finance. Hansen will be responsible for leading the development of...

Mizuho Bank and Itaú BBA International have arranged financing for Rio-based oil and gas firm GranEnergia to purchase and take delivery of a multi-service vessel, named...

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is to buy a 60% stake in Standard Bank’s London-based Global Markets business for $765 million, making it China’s first...

Anton Martin has been appointed managing director and head of sales in global markets at the National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD), bolstering the bank’s West-East corridor...

Houston-headquartered, specialist oil exploration company Pacific Drilling has appointed Paul Reese to the role of chief financial officer (CFO), effective 28 February...

Russian shipping company Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has signed a new $316 million credit facility for the purchase of two new ice-class LNG (liquefied natural gas)...

Russian oil and gas company Lukoil has signed an export finance package with a club of international banks for a major upgrade programme at its Bulgarian refining...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has launched new transaction service capabilities for clients doing business in Brazil. The products are designed to help companies...

Eastern European growth has laboured as a result of the eurozone crisis. Yet overall economic growth continues to surpass that of Western Europe, says Per Fischer, head...

Swiss commodities trader Ecom Agroindustrial Corporation (Ecom) is in the process of buying Armajaro Trading, the trading arm of London-based commodity trading house and...

The UK and South Korea are set for greater cooperation between the two countries in the field of export finance following the signing of cooperation agreements between...

The ICC Trade Register has assisted the industry and policy-makers in developing a pool of data to evaluate the long-held claim that trade and export finance is a...

TXF talks to Commerzbank about some of the major trends impacting the export credit sector at the present time.