Structured commodity finance stalwart Pepi Bedi has been promoted to head of structured trade finance at Sumitomo Mitsui Bank Corporation Europe (SMBCE). He is based in...
Tullow Oil has refinanced its NOK2 billion ($330 million) Norwegian exploration revolving credit facility (RCF), and at the same time it has successfully increased the...
Energy trading company Vitol has closed its $2.05 billion loan to fund the acquisition of the downstream businesses of Shell Australia (excluding aviation).
Trade documentation software specialist Bolero International has appointed Ian Kerr as its new chief operating officer (CEO).
London-headquartered, Africa-focused, oil exploration company Tullow Oil has refinanced its $500 million corporate revolving credit facility (RCF) and successfully...
Experienced trade financier Ian Henderson has been hired as a consultant for Gunvor - the commodities trader.
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.
International drilling contractor Sevan Drilling has also closed and drawn down $1.4 billion of its new $1.75 billion bank facility. The funds relate to the delivery 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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