A boom in interest in Australian renewables projects could be curtailed by the government’s plans to introduce a National Energy Guarantee (NEG). Borrowers have benefited...

With Russia’s economic climate improving in 2017, the country has seen an injection of investment commitments into infrastructure from Asia and the Middle East. Some...

Charles Hall, the acting chairman of US Ex-Im has retired from the bank. What does this mean for the agency which is still without a board quorum and unable to approve...

The shift to open account trade continues to raise question marks over the future and relevance of traditional letters of credit (LCs).

Forget twitter and the crassness, Donald Trump has an infrastructure plan that the PPP industry actually likes. But is it workable, and would it pass congress?

Robert Kowit, senior vice-president and product specialist at Federated Investors, is finding investor appetite for trade finance assets from some unexpected quarters.

As LNG markets mature, commodity traders are making significant inroads into the LNG space - both as providers of finance and infrastructure - and look set to challenge...

The volume of private insurance market credit risk mitigation is growing – but does the industry do enough to voice its activities and concerns to regulators?

At the end of July the sponsors of the Moscow Central Ring Road section III concession reached financial close with a mix of public grants and domestic bank debt. The...

Some economic sanctions were lifted 18 months ago and Iran is open and keen for business. However, the commercial bank sector is far from tapping into the immense...

Unable to approve transactions of more than $10 million for over a year now, the two Trump nominees for the new US Ex-Im quorum have sent a mixed message to the...

With backing from seven ECA’s and 11 commercial banks, KNPC's $6.25 billion Clean Fuels project financing is setting a new benchmark for inter-creditor complexity.

Peter Luketa, former global head of export finance at HSBC, led one of the most successful teams within the export finance sector. With 20 years of ECA-backed lending...

A downturn in global commodity markets and a rise in regulatory pressure has led to greater de-risking by structured trade finance banks. This funding gap is being...

Uruguay is the MacGyver of clean energy development. Equipped with just some pocket change from the UN’s climate fund, the country has become a global standard-bearer for...

In a blunt welcome address on day one of US Ex-Im's annual conference, Charles Hall, acting US Ex-Im chairman and president, outlined the wider global context in which...

Changes in Chinese foreign exchange regulations could be set to attract new international banks and domestic borrowers to the offshore financing space. And after years of...

Commodity trader Glencore has stolen a march on its rivals, securing an unexpected deal with state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft. The Switzerland-based trading house...

Following a tough 2015 which saw the share price of commodity trader Glencore drop dramatically, signs of improvement have been evident in 2016. The resumption of...

EssDOCS has launched a new electronic warehousing tracking system much like LMEshield to combat chances of fraud. The two commercial products produced separately by the...