First Quantum Minerals (First Quantum) has secured an extension of the tenor, and an amendment of the terms under its existing $2.5 billion credit facility. The signing...
Hong Kong-listed Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) has signed a $50 million loan agreement with China Development Bank Corporation (CDB) Hong Kong branch. The borrower of...
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...
Aviation Capital Group (ACG) has closed a four-year, senior unsecured revolving credit facility of $850 million. The facility increases ACG’s committed revolving debt...
US law firm Sullivan & Worcester opened its London offices today. This is the first office for the law firm outside of North America. The London office is located at...
ABN AMRO is targeting growth in commodity structured inventory products (SIP) in Asia-Pacific with the launch of its first dedicated desk in Singapore. The services will...
BNP Paribas (BNPP) has completed a securitisation of commodity trade finance loan receivables, in a $131.6 million transaction through the special platform Lighthouse...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $25 million loan to RG Brands, a food and beverage producer in Kazakhstan. The loan, which is...
Canadian-headquartered Endeavour Mining Corporation (Endeavour) has signed a new agreement increasing its revolving corporate loan facility from $200 million to $350...
Puma Energy, the global mid and downstream energy company, has renewed its committed, revolving credit facility (RCF) with a significant oversubscription from the market....
Trafigura has appointed Stephan Jansma as its group head of structured and trade finance. For the past 15 years Jansma has focused on commodity finance activities in...
The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest military insurgence in the gas-rich region, and ECAs and banks reticent on when the deal will close, meeting conditions precedent seems ambitious in 2024.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
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