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10 December 2015

Commodity investor interviews: Scipion Capital - taking on the traders

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...

07 December 2015

Commodity investor interviews: Barak Fund Management – making commodity deals bankable

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...

20 October 2015

SACE signs landmark €1 billion credit line for major UAE projects

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...

13 October 2015

Trade finance as an asset class

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...

13 October 2015

Borrowers and ECA financing

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...

08 October 2015

China launches CIPS clearing platform and banks quick to enact business

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),...

17 August 2015

HSBC facilitates RMB lending in China’s expanded FTZ pilot

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...

06 July 2015

Italy’s SACE finalises €200 million credit for Angola’s Sonangol

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)...

29 June 2015

SACE and EIB combine for €600 million loan for Fiat

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...

19 June 2015

Sberbank and SACE sign cooperation agreement

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...

02 June 2015

Berne Union members’ new business reaches close to $2 trillion in 2014

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...

12 May 2015

SACE and Sinosure sign reinsurance agreement

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

25 February 2015

Trader interview series: Part 3. Mercuria moves from strength to strength

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...

23 January 2015

Trader interview series: Part 2. Ocean Partners secures strong market niche

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....

12 December 2014

Trader interview series: Part 1. Trafigura steers a smooth course ahead

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...

28 November 2014

Indonesia’s Lion Air places ATR’s largest order

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...

26 November 2014

SACE guarantees loan for expansion of Giza power plant

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...

31 October 2014

Corporate wish list: what exporters and borrowers need from ECAs

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...

31 October 2014

Corporate focus: ECAs are more essential than ever

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...

04 September 2014

Bolivia’s BNB gets trade boost through

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...