Empresa de Transporte de Pasajeros Metro (Metro), the state-owned owner and operator of the subway system in Santiago, Chile, has closed the financing relating to...
After more than 11 years at the helm of trade within Malta-headquartered FIMBank, the group’s president, Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger, is retiring. The group has also...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced that it is working to introduce a mobile payment platform to support intra-African trade and payments.
London-headquartered law firm Thomas Cooper is continuing to boost its partnership with the announcement of four internal promotions across the business’ key sectors,...
A panel of industry experts explore the key issues impacting the export finance market now and in the future. Topics covered include the impact of Basel III on export...
The UK’s export credit agency (ECA), UK Export Finance (UKEF), has announced the first deal to be supported by the £3 billion ($4.8 billion) Direct Lending Facility (DLF)...
Euler Hermes UK has appointed Guillaume Simonnet as new senior regional commercial underwriter.
The International Forfaiting Association (IFA), the world’s premier body for trade finance, is holding its 41st Annual Conference in Barcelona from 10-12 September 2014.
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a project finance loan agreement in support of a total $643 million financing for a 290MW hydropower plant...
Calgary-headquartered junior oil explorer WesternZagros Resources has secured new debt financing amounting to $200 million. The funding comes from its largest shareholder...
HSBC has appointed Sriram Muthukrishnan as managing director and regional head of business development for global trade and receivables finance, Asia-Pacific.
Markel International, the specialist insurer, has applied to the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to establish a company to operate within the Dubai...
In a significant reorganisation of the export finance department, HSBC has appointed two new regional heads of the business line. The changes in the department – the most...
Commodity trader Trafigura, has today launched India’s first online refined metal retail platform – known as Lykos.
Today, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released its Trade Register Report 2014. The empirical evidence from the report points to the fact that trade and...
HSBC veteran Stuart Tait has been selected to take over as head of the bank’s global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) division, replacing James Emmett. Emmett will...
TXF talks with several Asia-Pacific heads of export finance about trends and prospects for the business line in the region.
Commodity producers, traders and financiers gathered in Amsterdam last week for TXF's inaugural Natural Resources & Commodities Finance conference. Held at the Beurs van...
Specialist insurer, Markel International, has appointed Simon Philpin as underwriter and senior risk analyst in its trade credit division.
Since the establishment of the Berne Union in 1934 – with the aim of facilitating cross- border trade, by establishing common export credit principles – the role of...
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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