80bp saved on the margin and minimal costs compared to a new money refinancing, the restructuring of the Gemini offshore wind deal vindicates Northland Power’s original...

Despite a sluggish 2016 in which Asian transaction activity was down on 2015, Paul Richards, global head of export finance at ANZ, is optimistic. The bank has already...

Olivier Paul - Head of Policy, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission - outlines the continuing value of ICC’s Trade Register project, its...

Forecasts for trade since the financial crisis have been steady. Now, political anxiety and regulatory tightening casts a huge shadow of ambiguity over the trade outlook...

Over the past two years, Brazil has suffered from its worst recession since the 1930s. However, since the appointment of conservative President Michel Temer, Latin...

The development of one of the world’s highest producing polyhalite mines in North Yorkshire, backed by commercial bank and Canada’s EDC financing could bring jobs and an...

SMBC has reorganised its structured trade and commodity finance (STCF) groups in London within its global trade finance department. As part of the reorganisation it is...

Summer in the northern hemisphere is usually a slow period for export credit agency (ECA) and DFI-backed financing, but this year I can’t help noticing that it is one of...

The 29th annual World Traders’ Tacitus Lecture was delivered this year by the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Paul Tucker, on ‘a new international...

HSBC has set out its stall for the future leadership of its export finance department through a shake-up which sees new heads taking the business line forward.

On the sidelines of TXF's Export, Agency and Project Finance conference in Rome, Max Thompson caught up with the CEO of Seaborn Network, Larry Schwartz, to find out more...

GME, Central America's leading wind energy company, has tapped three international development agencies, FMO, Proparco, and OeEB for $149 million in long-term financing...

The EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Programme is further embedding itself in countries of the new region – Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Egypt and Cyprus – where financial...

With their huge capacity and state backing, ECAs for many years dominated the market for absorbing risk on longer-dated export credits. That’s changed, say private...

JBIC has been quick out of the starting blocks in 2016, supporting $5.6 billion in deals as the government swings its weight behind the policy bank. Connor Lovell looks...

Seaborn Networks secured an innovative project financing to fund the establishment of high-speed telecommunications infrastructure between US and Brazil.

The state of trade, commodity and export finance in Brazil: special correspondent Luis Waldmann looks at the avenues that Brazilian exporters have for export, commodity...

Chinese development banks lent a total of $29.1 billion to Latin America in 2015 – nearly triple the amount of 2014, and more than the combined lending from the...

A lot can happen in 12 months. But don’t take our word for it, just ask those in the export finance industry who have set themselves – or been set – on new career paths...

In spite of the industry-wide push to attract investors to trade finance in recent years, risk distribution in the market has slumped in 2015 as waning flows have seen...