Zurich Insurance (Zurich), has expanded its credit and political risk business with several key appointments and two new offices, opened in Houston and Toronto.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed a $200 million syndicated loan in Kazakhstan to finance new environmentally friendly technologies...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and UniCredit have combine dto arrange financing for the Rudine wind farm project in Slano, near Dubrovnik in Croatia. The...

New York-based consultancy firm, Banksville Partners (BP), has appointed Hugo Pezzoni to its Buenos Aires office.

The signing for the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) annual pre export finance (PXF) facility has taken place with the marketing agency securing $1.7 billion for the Ghanaian...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed a €4.5 million ($5.8 million) loan to aid the modernisation of urban transport in the central...

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.

International law firm, Thomas Cooper, has hired Alex Monk to its finance group.

HII Technologies, a Texan oilfield services company, has secured $18 million of senior secured debt funding from a group of lenders, led by Heartland Bank, an Arkansas...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has appointed Paul Donofrio as head of global transaction services (GTS) across the bank. He will be based in New York.

Pan-African Ecobank has today signed a memorandum with eleni LLC, the leading proponent and developer of commodity exchanges in Africa, with a view to establishing a...

Oruro, Bolivia sits on the High Andean Plain 180 km south-east of La Paz. As the sun rose over this bucolic community of miners on 9 February, 2007, soldiers of the...

Jonathan Bell talks with the RB International (RBI) global natural resources team heads in Vienna about what the recent reorganisation means for the bank’s operations and...

Brazil’s Banco Pine will benefit from a $115 million loan from Commerzbank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), which it will use for onlending to support...

An initiative, announced today, could soon see the establishment of the new Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX). And beyond this, there is the potential for the GCX to become...

Malta-headquartered FIMBank has hired Thomas Degen to its senior management team.

Swedish-headquartered upstream oil firm Lundin Petroleum has signed a $4 billion reserve-based lending (RBL) facility. The new Lundin RBL is believed to be the largest...

Euler Hermes is expanding its services in Asia-Pacific with the addition of a specialised single risk and political risk insurance team based in Singapore.

Deutsche Bank, working together with steel trader Duferco, has arranged an $800 million structured steel pre-payment term loan facility for China-based Tangshan Iron &...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing the private Kazakh rail company JSC Olzha with a $24.8 million loan to support the development...