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...

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...

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...

The UK government aims to help make London the leading centre for offshore renminbi (RMB) business outside China, not least because the currency has now overtaken the...

If we think about academic research, we often think about theory development and testing with no or little concern for impact on the real world. We sometimes believe that...

The Italian export credit agency, SACE, confirmed today that it would be providing $300 million of insurance cover related to the floating production storage and...

ABN AMRO has appointed Robbert Booij as the new country executive for the United Kingdom and general manager of ABN AMRO Bank UK branch.

Vecron Lordstock Group (VLG), a global structured finance firm specialising in structured trade and project finance, has announced the launching of Vecron Exim, an...

ABN AMRO is continuing to strengthen its energy, commodities & transportation (ECT) division with two senior appointments. The bank has promoted Friso Koopmans as global...

SACE, the Italian export credit agency, has signed a collaboration agreement with digital start-up Workinvoice, the first Italian fintech platform for trading...

GAO Capital (GAO) has announced a strategic alliance with Straits Financial Group (Straits) to collaborate on GAO Funds, a multi-strategy fund platform with a focus on...

SBM Offshore, a Dutch supplier of floating production and mooring systems, has completed a $1.55 billion export credit agency (ECA)-backed project financing to finance...

Berry Palmer & Lyle (BPL Global), the specialist credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, is to open a representative office in Dubai as part of the group’s...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) has signed a €15-million ($16.5 million) financing facility to Afriland First Bank’s Côte d’Ivoire subsidiary for the financing...

US-headquartered, Castleton Commodities International (CCI) has closed two committed credit facilities totalling $3.75 billion. The funds will be used for general...

Rabobank has appointed Muriel Schwab as head trade & commodity finance (TCF) Americas. She takes up the post as of 1 July, and will be based in New York.

The final Cole Commission report in relation to changing UK export culture was released today. The independently commissioned report is an action plan for the UK...