Despite the global slowdown in the shipping industry, Reliance Industries' recent K-sure-backed facility for the construction of six VLECs was two times oversubscribed by...

Despite a poor season earlier this year, global demand for cocoa remains high. One of Côte d’Ivoire’s largest grinders has secured a PXF with British Arab Commercial Bank...

When the famous Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson opined, “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant,” he encapsulated the need...

An increase in compliance issues in international banking in the wake of damaging public exposures and scandals has demonstrated the importance of regulation in the...

Despite a crop-damaging drought and fears about production levels, the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has refinanced its annual PXF in a vastly oversubscribed facility. The...

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) annual Trade Finance Gaps report highlights specific difficulties in developing markets in Asia and Africa amongst a general gap of...

Following the complete purchase of commodities traders Nidera and Noble Agri, Cofco, the Chinese state-backed trading house, could be set to move on a market suffering...

Olam’s acquisition of Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)’s cocoa business provides the perfect opportunity to investigate the trader’s track record for sustainable cocoa and...

As millions of UK citizens queued up at polling stations the length and breadth of the country, Ollie Gordon talked to trade economists, business associations, and...

Banks are continuing to withdraw from many of their correspondent banking relationships - a process which threatens global trade, especially in poorer countries. TXF...

The $80 million prepayment to Cocoa Touton Processing is a landmark financing for West Africa, bringing added-value processing on a major scale to Ghana. Jonathan Bell...

Over the past week, Singapore-headquartered agri-business and trader Olam International has secured a new $650 million revolving credit facility (RCF), a $300 million...

ADB has earmarked $10 billion for Indonesia over the next five years in a bid to support the government's development priorities. TXF speaks with ADB's Steven Tabor to...

EDC has seen a 20% increase in the take up of its small and medium sized enterprises (SME) export programme following a recent rule change allowing the Canadian export...

Pillsbury Law’s Steve Farmer and Matthew Oresman discuss significant steps taken on both sides of the divide, and the implications for the trade finance industry?

For the 2015 edition of the Perfect 10 Awards, TXF has decided to introduce a brand new accolade: Most Sustainable Deal of the Year.

Rabobank and export credit insurer Atradius Dutch State Business (Atradius DSB) have combined to help arrange project financing for two onshore wind farms in Finland....

After five years of negotiations, agreement has been reached today in Atlanta on the far-reaching Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The TPP – an agreement...

CC Solutions' Valerie Colville discusses how the US export credit agency’s charter came to expire on 30 June, what is likely to come next, and what can be done to bring...

Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon, has appointed Pieter van Ede as head of business development, global trade credit, with immediate effect....