Despite being below investment grade, Brazil’s largest oil company appears to have retained market confidence amid an ongoing political scandal and repeated allegations...

In a world fast moving towards digitalisation, banks are working to adapt the infrastructure of cross-border payments. Partnering with IT players, banks and fintechs can...

Over the coming days, FintechWeek teases out the new challenges facing the fintech industry as anxieties over London’s role as a financial centre take shape.

All the British EU referendum seems to have been good for so far is trading insults - as emotions run high in the last few days before the historic 23 June vote, and...

China's largest base oil producer secured a prepayment with six international banks, a first in the downstream market there, which indicates a turn towards international...

US shale producers have maxed out their reserve-based loans in a sign of impending bankruptcies, but lenders can expect good recoveries from these, while some frackers...

Reliance Industries’ latest €950 million ($1.04 billion) export credit agency (ECA)-backed deal is expected to push its capital expenditure spree in refinery and...

If we think about academic research, we often think about theory development and testing with no or little concern for impact on the real world. We sometimes believe that...

China has today officially launched its new global clearing platform for real time renminbi (RMB) settlement, known as the Cross Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS),...

After five years of negotiations, agreement has been reached today in Atlanta on the far-reaching Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The TPP – an agreement...

World markets are reacting strongly to the recent devaluations of the Chinese renminbi (RMB), and corporates could be forgiven for fearing difficult trade environments....

Markel International, the specialist insurer, has appointed Savita Mascarenhas as underwriter for its expanding trade credit operations in Dubai.

Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) has completed the first Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) transaction in the automotive industry for Mohammed Naser Al-Sayer and Sons...

International credit insurance company Euler Hermes has launched a new division - Euler Hermes Energy. The new division will be North American-based and focus on...

Deutsche Bank has closed a €300 million ($334 million) borrowing base facility for the German metal production company VDM Metals Group (VDM). Acting as the coordinating...

Development financing institutions (DFIs) and a syndicate of commercial banks have arranged financing of $1 billion to fund the development of an Azerbaijan offshore gas...

The Industrial Development Bank of Turkey (TSKB - Turkiye Sinai Kalkinma Bankasi) has secured an overall $252.5 million loan through a syndicate of international banks....

Open account trade has been growing in GCC markets during the last few years . As a result, some of the more sophisticated companies have started to move to non-recourse...

David Viney, at Finacity Corporation, takes a close look at the management of working capital and how companies can use working capital flexibility as a means of...

Trade credit insurer Euler Hermes has appointed three regional chief executive officers (CEO) to its German, Austrian, Swiss (DACH), World Agency and French offices, and...