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...

Jonathan Bell reviews this year’s Ghana Cocobod financing, analyses the record of pricing, and looks at the prospect of further value-added for African soft commodities.

Asian American Gas Holdings (AAG Energy) a leading and independent coalbed methane (CBM) producer in China, has secured a $250 million reserve-based lending (RBL)...

Ukraine’s major Ukrainian sunflower oil producer and exporter Industrial Group ViOil (ViOil) has secured a $40 million pre-financing through Dutch bank ING and the...

HSBC has appointed Steven Cranwell head of commercial banking Singapore. He takes over from Kelvin Tan, who has been appointed chief executive officer for HSBC in...

The 2015 CFO Outlook Asia survey released by Bank of America Merrill Lynch reveals that more chief financial officers (CFOs) in Asia-Pacific are confident in their...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has expanded its trade finance programme (TFP) in Nepal by $40 million in order to help local banks finance the import of goods needed...

Although the emphasis was very much on SME business at the Export-Import Bank of the United States’s (US Ex-Im’s) annual conference in Washington DC last week, it was the...

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...

Nedbank has teamed with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the private sector window of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP) to gain...

BNY Mellon has appointed Arnon Goldstein as head of sales & relationship management, treasury services, for Asia-Pacific. He will be based in Singapore. Goldstein...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has officially launched its new education and training project, the ICC Academy.

Shipping company Maersk Line has announced that Pierre Danet will become the new chief financial officer of the company as of 7 April 2015. He will also be part of the...

The World Bank group and Swiss index-insurance specialist CelsiusPro have partnered to make agricultural insurance in Ukraine more affordable for smaller companies,...

British export credit agency (ECA), UK Export Finance (UKEF) has signed an addendum to an existing memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bancomext (Mexican Trade...

Sudameris Bank in Paraguay has secured funds from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to finance exporters in the country’s agribusiness sector.

Simon Jones, head of structured export finance (SEF), Asia Pacific, is leaving ANZ in order to return to the UK. Steven Mulder, who has been promoted to head of South and...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) today announced a new slate of members for its advisory committee for fiscal 2015.

A new ~Asian Development Bank^ (ADB) survey reveals that large market gaps for trade finance are undermining growth and job creation. The report was compiled with support...

SWIFT has announced that the KYC Registry is now available to banks seeking to increase efficiency and reduce risk related to their correspondent banking know your...