While some loans to Russian corporates are being hit by the continuing conflict and political trouble in eastern Ukraine, and the now accentuated associated fallout with...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €140 million ($188.6 million) loan to leading Turkish commercial vehicle maker Ford Otomotiv...

African agriculture stands at a crossroads and it alone is responsible for taking the right path. The sector has the potential to become a world beater within two...

A new study into warehouse receipts and collateral management was unveiled this week at the Fin4Ag conference in Nairobi. The 200-page report dissects the experiences of...

With the vast ocean of financing required in African agriculture, banks alone – at least in the current climate – are insufficient. The same was true of Brazil and the...

Most weather-index insurance pilot projects in Africa fail within three years because of inadequate budgets that don’t allow for scale, weather-station maintenance or...

Equity Group Foundation is targeting Kenya’s under-served mid-sized farmers with a new training programme that seeks to provide them with key business skills. The...

“Africa requires $21 billion over the next 10 years to fill the finance gap in agricultural financing,” remarks Jean-Louis Ekra, president of African Export-Import Bank...

At the 2nd African Continental Briefing at the Fin4Ag conference in Nairobi, participants discussed how to strengthen value chains, build trust and help the public sector...

Haiti has found itself at the forefront of agricultural microfinance with an initiative that is shaking up misconceptions about the bankability of smallholder famers and...

Despite having nearly 20% of the world’s cultivated land, Africa’s share of the global agricultural market measured by insurance premiums paid is smaller than 1%,...

African banks are taking the lead in financing the continent’s farmers, traders and soft commodities. With more local money in the system, they are also reaching further...

Singaporean shipping company Pacific International Lines has utilised Bolero’s cloud platform technology for an electronic bill of lading (eBL) as part of a BHP Billiton...

Ma’aden Wa’ad Al-Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC), an affiliate of the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) has signed loan facilities for a total of SR18.9 billion ($5...

As the most extensive urban metro system in the Caribbean and only the second in existence, Santo Domingo’s Metro is an ambitious programme to modernise transport...

Tony Elumelu is chairman of Nigeria-based investment company Heirs Holdings and conglomerate Transcorp. He is also founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, a philanthropic...

Today, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released its Trade Register Report 2014. The empirical evidence from the report points to the fact that trade and...

TXF conducted a survey of participants at the ECA/DFI Finance Conference in Paris earlier this month, for the second consecutive year. Here are the results.

Tullow Oil has refinanced its NOK2 billion ($330 million) Norwegian exploration revolving credit facility (RCF), and at the same time it has successfully increased the...

TXF and ANZ conducted an anonymous industry survey at the ECA/DFI Finance Conference in Paris last week. Delegates were each given a handset and asked to give a response...