The International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) has launched an electronic bill of lading powered by essDOCS’ online trade facilitation solution...
The EU and US have both increased sanctions against Russia, targeting its critical energy, finance and defence sectors, as well as more persons and companies directly...
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...
Gazprom Export has appointed Elena Burmistrova as its new director general. Burmistrova started her career at Glencore International (Switzerland) in 1992, then worked...
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...
Hesham Zakai assesses the impact of the Russia-Ukraine political problems on trade.
Russia’s Gazprom has signed a 30-year gas contract with the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) that will see more than 1 trillion cubic metres of gas flow...
Pan-African Ecobank has signed a $200 million loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to help bolster African trade flows.
Singapore-headquartered Sahara Energy International, the trading arm of Sahara Group, has appointed former Trafigura head of finance Alexander Peters as its new chief...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $1 billion loan for the Angola Power Sector Reform Support Programme.
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has recruited James Burdett as its group’s new chief financial officer (CFO). Burdett joins the Emirates bank from Australia and New...
Five leading business associations have joined forces with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission to undertake a major project to standardise and...
The LME aluminium price has certainly not been encouraging. In this negative climate, what Rusal has managed to achieve through production cuts, how the company is...
Africa-focused oil exploration company Caracal Energy has agreed terms to sell to Glencore Xstrata. The deal is worth approximately $1.3 billion.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has made its debut in Tunisia’s leasing sector with a €15 million ($20.8 million) senior unsecured loan to...
In an important development in the further provision of electronic trade, essDOCS, the leading shipping and trade eDocs provider, has announced two major projects...
essDOCS has opened a new office in Singapore, allowing the shipping and trading eDocs provider to expand its presence in the Asia Pacific region.
Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (Zesco) has signed a $163 million export financing agreement with Nordea and Standard Bank to finance the company’s north-western...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has joined forces with Nordea Bank to support a €123 million ($170 million) modernisation of two manufacturing...
South Stream Transport (SST) has placed an order for 75,000 12-metre pipes to be used in the construction of the South Stream pipeline in a sign of the project’s...
The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest military insurgence in the gas-rich region, and ECAs and banks reticent on when the deal will close, meeting conditions precedent seems ambitious in 2024.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
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