The gap in funding for SMEs worldwide is a growing concern for the trade finance community and the international financial institutions regulating trade. Marc Auboin from...
EXIAR, Russia’s ECA, has backed a $130m loan to Atomstroyexport to build a nuclear power plant in India. TXF takes a closer look at the state-support behind the...
The ICC has released a set of definitions for supply chain finance (SCF) and its techniques. The challenge now, says the ICC, is to convince supply chain financiers, many...
Sponsored Editorial: EuroChem Group AG, a global top 10 agrochemical company, received an early Christmas present on December 22nd by closing its long-awaited €557...
Higher base rates are likely to drastically change the economics for project and infrastructure financings. TXF argues that both debt and equity yields on projects could...
TXF has announced the winners of the 2015 Exporters’ Choice Awards. Only three banks and three export credit agencies (ECAs) have qualified for the award.
The International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Banking Commission has released its 2015 Trade Register. The report, the fifth of its kind, tripled the value of...
TXF Media will announce the winners of the Exporters Choice Awards in one week. TXF Media, working with Clevis Research, has surveyed 80 exporters to identify the most...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has led a $525 million syndicated loan for the Egyptian Electricity Company (EEHC) to fund the import of gas turbines from...
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has appointed Frederic Surdon as head of asset finance with immediate effect. This is a new role and department...
The Swiss-headquartered Russian agrichemical EuroChem Group AG has signed a $750 million pre-export finance facility with a club of leading international banks. The funds...
Gazprom’s UK-based subsidiary, Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T) has signed a 364-day $500 million syndicated revolving credit facility (RCF).
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) honoured the most successful participants in its Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) 2014 in an award ceremony...
Following a global tender, essDOCS, a leading enabler of paperless trade, has has won the contract to develop and deliver a document preparation (Doc Prep) solution for...
International law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has expanded its energy practice with the recruitment of Jayson Marks. He joins the firm’s oil and gas group as a...
The sole shareholder of the Export Insurance Agency of Russia (EXIAR) – state corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank) – has today...
UK export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF) has been fined £500,000 by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $20 million loan, to partly finance the working capital of Medsofts, a family-owned company...
Agricultural and food commodity trading company Bunge has become the latest global trading house to move its documentation to full electronic format through an agreement...
The Russian export credit agency, EXIAR, has appointed Alexey Tyupanov as the new chief executive officer (CEO). He takes over from Peter Fradkov, who held the post since...
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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