What can EDC’s SME programme teach other ECAs?
EDC has seen a 20% increase in the take up of its small and medium sized enterprises (SME) export programme following a recent rule change allowing the Canadian export...
EDC has seen a 20% increase in the take up of its small and medium sized enterprises (SME) export programme following a recent rule change allowing the Canadian export...
At the beginning of the 2016, Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Factors Group (IFG) merged to form the world’s largest factoring network. The...
One of the largest multinational trade pacts in history, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), was officially signed today in Auckland, New Zealand by ministers of its 12...
A lot can happen in 12 months. But don’t take our word for it, just ask those in the export finance industry who have set themselves – or been set – on new career paths...
As of 1 December, professional services firm EY, leading through its Eschborn office in Germany, is formally launching its global export credit agency (ECA) coordination...
The usual spiel given by the supply chain finance (SCF) salesman to the corporate buyer is that a SCF programme is a 'win, win, win' solution: a nifty, cutting-edge...
Wells Fargo Capital Finance, part of Wells Fargo & Company has appointed Nick Lawrence as managing director for supply chain finance as it finalises the build out of its...
Global trade growth built up expectations with a healthy recovery following the crisis, but it has since relapsed to a snail-like pace of advancement. Despite their...
UniCredit Austria has signed a new credit agreement for Russian oil and gas company Gazprom – totaling €300 million ($335 million). The signing took place today at the St...
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...
Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company Sibur has made significant progress with the financing for its ZapSibNeftekhim petrochemical project, through an...
KfW IPEX-Bank has arranged a $194 million export credit financing transaction for the German firm PCC SE to build a state-of-the-art silicon metal production plant in...
Italian export credit agency SACE has agreed to guarantee a total of €575 million ($648 million) loans to be issued to Russia’s agrichemical company EuroChem to build a...
BPL Global, the insurance broker, has secured the services of Peter von Guretzky-Cornitz as a representative for the business in Germany.
Factors Chain International (FCI), a leading network of global factoring companies, is reporting strong growth in cross-border factoring in selective markets. The group...
HSBC has just released its latest Trade Forecast report, which notes that advanced economies look set to sustain global commerce through 2016 before an emerging market...
Peter Field, the executive director of origination and portfolio management at Australian export credit agency (ECA) Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), will...
International Finance Corporation (IFC) has signed an agreement to provide a $100 million loan facility to Zenith Bank, to increase its lending to a variety of important...
The sole shareholder of the Export Insurance Agency of Russia (EXIAR) – state corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank) – has today...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has today announced the first recipients of five of its annual export awards in advance of its 2015 annual...
Senior practitioners of the trade and export finance community will gather at the University of St Gallen this autumn for another edition of IfTI’s Global Symposium. Expect lively debate around case studies and best practices in trade as geopolitical tensions rise.