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...

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...

Matthew Strong has moved from the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) offices in London to take up his new position as head of the credit, political and security (CPS)...

International law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has expanded its energy practice with the recruitment of Jayson Marks. He joins the firm’s oil and gas group as a...

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...

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...

Andrew Betts will be joining HSBC’s senior global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) team as the regional head for the UK and continental Europe.

One of the biggest challenges with warehouse receipt finance is that it needs to reach a certain scale before the perceived benefits to farmers and traders justify the...

A new study into warehouse receipts and collateral management was unveiled at the Fin4Ag conference in Nairobi.

Agriculture is thinking beyond the challenges it often faces with bank finance by stepping boldly into new frontiers. While farmers tap next-generation financing sources...

One of the liveliest debates at the Fin4Ag conference in Nairobi centred on the responsibilities that farmers have in facilitating agrifinance. Although heated criticisms...

Kenya’s Kyanzavi Farmers Cooperative is one example of how clubbing together into a single commercial estate can help individual farmers improve their yield, attract...

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...

Crowdfunding has the potential to turn smallholder farmers into the bank customers of tomorrow, helping them grow to the stage at which they are able to tap traditional...