Swiss ECA SERV has pulled off some major innovations in the bond markets - from guaranteeing a rouble bond refinancing to the Sergipe local currency bond deal earlier...

This week's edition of The Week That Was focuses on recent problems being caused by resource nationalism in Africa's mining sector

TXF talks to Peter Jameson Managing Director, Co-Head EMEA Product Management, Global Transaction Services at Bank of America Merrill Lynch about the limits of...

Peter Mulroy, Secretary General of FCI spoke to Katharine Morton at the ICC banking commission annual meeting in Miami about how trust is helping factoring move beyond...

Peter Mulroy, Secretary General of FCI spoke to Katharine Morton at the ICC banking commission annual meeting in Miami about how trust is helping factoring move beyond...

A call for action. How to get FIT for trade, treasury and risk (without any physical exercise)

As Noble Group looks to force through a controversial restructuring amid lawsuits and media spats with shareholders, what could a new Noble look like? And will regulatory...

Iran has yet to produce the project and trade flows bankers hoped for following signing of the JCPOA in 2016. The hurdles are largely born of the Trump administration –...

In conjunction with an uptick in industrial metals pricing, more mining companies are beginning to consider commodity trading for themselves.

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...

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...

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...