In part two of our interview series, TXF’s Helen Castell talks to Scipion Capital vice president Ben Storrs about how trade finance funds and specialist commodity...

Barak founder Jean Craven talks to TXF’s Helen Castell about opportunities in African agri, how trade finance funds complement bank finance and about Barak’s plans to...

Italy’s export credit agency, SACE, has signed two agreements with the United Arab Emirates for project development in the Emirates – and coupled with this is an umbrella...

Helen Castell at TXF talks to Bob Kowit, a member of the trade finance team at Federated Investors, about the challenges involved in creating a pool of trade finance...

Helen Castell at TXF talks to some of the world’s largest borrowers about what ECA finance means to them, and why things like fixed-rate financing, long-term framework...

China has today officially launched its new global clearing platform for real time renminbi (RMB) settlement, known as the Cross Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS),...

HSBC has facilitated cross-border renminbi (RMB) loans for mainland China corporates operating from the Nansha Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and Kunshan, areas that are now...

Italian export credit agency, SACE, has signed a cooperation agreement with the Angolan Ministry of Finance. The agency has also finalised a €200 million ($220 million)...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Italian export credit agency SACE have combined to provide a €600 million ($669 million) loan to auto manufacturer Fiat...

Sberbank of Russia and Italian export credit agency SACE have signed a memorandum on developing future cooperation. The agreement took place during the St Petersburg...

The Berne Union and the associated Prague Club have revealed that in 2014 members’ new business reached close to $2 trillion. The figures demonstrate the strong role the...

The Italian export credit agency, SACE, and China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure), have today signed a reinsurance agreement aimed at facilitating the...

In the third interview of our commodity trader series, Mercuria Energy Trading CFO, Guillaume Vermersch, tells Helen Castell how its deal to buy JPMorgan’s physical...

In the second of our series of exclusive interviews with the world’s top commodity traders, Helen Castell talks to Siva Pillay, managing director at Ocean Partners....

As undisputed drivers of trade, the world’s commodity traders are a hugely influential group but also oddly misunderstood. They are the lynchpins of global trade, not...

Indonesia’s largest private airline, Lion Group, has signed a $1 billion purchase agreement with Italian-French aircraft manufacturer ATR for the purchase of 40 ATR...

The Italian export credit agency (ECA), SACE, has guaranteed a thirteen-year €210 million ($262.44 million) loan to Italian energy company, Ansaldo Energia, for the...

Helen Castell discusses, with some of the world’s biggest exporters and borrowers, the changing role of export credit agencies (ECAs), the impact of political wrangles in...

Export credit has always been a vital lifeline for exporters and their customers, especially in times of crisis. Although the worst days of the global economic downturn...

Bolivia’s second largest bank in Bolivia by market share, Banco Nacional de Bolivia (BNB), has joined the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Global Trade Finance...