More than 400 trade finance practitioners gathered in Turkey’s cultural and commercial capital Istanbul this week for the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking...
The Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) is ready to be combined with the electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) as the transition towards paperless trade gathers apace, delegates at...
Citi’s Treasury & Trade Solutions division has launched Integrated Payables Solutions, a product designed to aid clients in identifying opportunities to effectively...
Eugenio Cavenaghi has joined Santander as managing director – head of trade, export & supply chain finance for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
TXF talks with Marc Auboin, counsellor within the Economic Research and Statistics Devision within the World Trade Organisation (WTO), about the continuing dialogue with...
Finding efficient ways of managing working capital is the key focus for corporate treasurers going into 2015, according to a survey of nearly 80 treasurers and financial...
Germany’s UniCredit and Japan’s Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTMU) have combined to process the first Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) transaction between Germany and Japan....
Commerzbank, Germany’s second-largest bank by assets, has made its bank payment obligation (BPO) debut, processing two live transactions.
Hesham Zakai reports on changes taking place within the International Forfaiting Association.
New York headquartered Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO) has appointed Timothy Dunne as its president and chief executive, effective October 1.
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)...
Bolero International (Bolero) announced today at the Sibos 2014 conference its decision to collaborate with banks on SWIFT’s trade for corporates, the MT798...
Finnish export credit agency (ECA) Finnvera has extended its export credit guarantees programme to industrial companies making export related investments in Finland,...
Shareholders of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have given a boost to the agency’s operations in the form of a $500 million capitalisation, after authorising...
India’s largest private sector bank, ICICI, has signed framework agreements with both the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim) and China Development Bank (CDB), aimed...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed five financing agreements with Greece, amounting to a total €815 million ($1.05 billion) investment in the country’s...
The Export-Import Bank of Hungary (Hungarian Exim) is to provide a significant boost to SMEs and midcaps in the country, after it received a €200 million ($257 million)...
The International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA), formerly the International Forfaiting Association (IFA), has undergone an ambitious revamp focused on playing a...
UK-headquartered Standard Chartered bank (StanChart) has appointed former Citi employee Karin Flinspach as its new head of cash products for transaction banking.
With an immense amount of financing required in African agriculture, bank financing alone – at least in the current climate – is insufficient. The same was true of Brazil...
The latest Angolan Ministry of Finance ECA-backed loan to sign to fund the construction of an airport marks the country's ninth such sovereign deal this year, with Angola now accounting for nearly half of Africa's total deal volume.
Cameroon recently signed an ECA-backed loan for a strategic national road project. The deal has provided a financial blueprint for SME exporters to get involved in future such deals in the country - if they are willing to shoulder complex and lengthy deal timelines.
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The latest Angolan Ministry of Finance ECA-backed loan to sign to fund the construction of an airport marks the country's ninth such sovereign deal this year, with Angola now accounting for nearly half of Africa's total deal volume.
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