International law firm King & Spalding are set to open an office in Tokyo, the firm's eighteenth office overall and tenth office outside the United States. The new Tokyo...

This week, JB’s email to TXF subscribers had a sting in its tail: a reproach to financial institutions for their seeming reluctance to do business in Russia. At the same...

HSBC has just released its latest Trade Forecast report, which notes that advanced economies look set to sustain global commerce through 2016 before an emerging market...

Commodity trading company Trafigura Beheer BV has announced that Jeremy Weir, chief executive officer, is assuming responsibility for the metals and minerals trading...

FIMBank has appointed Ronald Haverkorn as its new chief risk officer. The appointment comes following the bank’s financial results for 2014 report earlier this year in...

International law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has hired Simon Caridia to join its projects and infrastructure practice in London as a partner with effect from 1 May...

The British Exporters Association (BExA) is holding a free, half-day seminar entitled ‘Winning exports in a turbulent world’ on 19 May in London. The wide-ranging seminar...

Shenzhen-based CDB Leasing has secured financing from KfW IPEX-Bank, Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen (Helaba) and The Korea Development Bank for the refinancing of four...

FIMBank group has recently announced its financial results for 2014, in which it posts a pre-tax loss of $53.43 million. This compares to a pre-tax loss of $6.4 million...

Simon Jones, head of structured export finance (SEF), Asia Pacific, is leaving ANZ in order to return to the UK. Steven Mulder, who has been promoted to head of South and...

Oslo-headquartered shipowner and operator Avance Gas Holding (AGHL) has secured new bank financing from a club of international banks for the purchase of four very large...

Malta-based trade finance institution ~FIMBank^ has received a $30 million loan from the ~International Finance Corporation^ (IFC) under the corporation's Global Trade...

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 Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is launching two loan facilities for banks in Denmark and Finland.

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...

TXF talks to Barclays about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.

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)...