Credit and political risk specialist Garant and Russian export credit agency, Export Insurance Agency of Russia (EXIAR), have signed a cooperation agreement in...

Danish export credit agency Export Kredit Fonden (EKF) has reported a significant rise in the number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) winning SME export...

Specialist positioning technology provider Trimble has appointed Francois Delepine as chief financial officer (CFO). Trimble integrates a wide range of positioning...

Development finance institutions (DFIs) have combined to provide an overall financing facility of $69 million for a sustainable forestry project in Latin America (LatAm).

Stuart Grice has been appointed head of trade credit at Bluefin insurance group with immediate effect. Based in London, Grice will manage Bluefin's credit insurance team...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has contributed over $1 billion in revenues to the US Treasury for the fiscal year 2013. This revenue, generated...

Pan-African Ecobank has successfully, officially deployed Global CASHplus, Fundtech’s integrated, real-time cross-border payment and cash management system in 30 African...

Barclays is continuing to expand its tade finance team with the appointment of Geoff Parry as UK head of global corporates, trade finance. Parry joins Barclays from...

Netherlands based development bank, FMO, has made two new appointments to its management structure. In the first instance, Jurgen Rigterink has been appointed as the...

Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger has been name as the new chairman of the International Factors Group (IFG). Lütschg-Emmenegger, who is president at FIMBank in Malta, has...

Credit Agricole Bank in Armenia (ACBA) has secured a three-year, $9 million local currency loan from EBRD for on-lending to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises...

BNY Mellon has appointed Monika Aminiova as market manager for treasury services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) based in London. With the aim of...

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...

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...

TXF talks to Standard Chartered Bank about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.

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...

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...

Deutsche Bank is increasing automation in its trade payments processes with China. As of 1 September 2013, the bank will launch paperless cross-border payment services in...

Hong Kong-headquartered commodity and logistics company Noble Group has concluded a $505 million, two-year committed revolving letter of credit and guarantee facility...

The two separate loans from HSBC total $55.6 million. Both loans are backed with comprehensive guarantees from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im).