Jonathan Bell examines the challenges the trade finance sector needs to confront, and find ways to work with, if it is to be a truly profitable business in the years...
TXF talks to Citi about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
TXF talks to BNP Paribas about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
TXF talks to Standard Chartered Bank about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
In a landmark transaction and development for Nigeria and West Afirca, Nigeria’s Dangote Industries has signed a medium-term $3.3 billion loan agreement with a consortium...
International commodities trading and logistics company Trafigura, has opened a new Russia-based business - Trafigura Eurasia, which the company sees as a vital cog in...
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) has made several appointments expanding its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) sales team within global transaction banking...
Deutsche Bank has opened a new branch in Qingdao, China following the approval from the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC). The Qingdao branch is the bank’s sixth...
Albania’s Union Bank Albania has been able to expand its trade finance offering following an injection of funds from the IFC. The funds will specifically be used to...
Russian fertiliser production company EuroChem has signed a $1.3 billion loan facility on a club basis. The transaction is unsecured, and as such is the company’s first...
Singapore-headquartered, agri-products producer and trading company Olam International (Olam) has signed a $400 million revolving credit facility (RCF), in a syndication...
BNP Paribas (BNPP) has completed a securitisation of commodity trade finance loan receivables, in a $131.6 million transaction through the special platform Lighthouse...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has approved a $105.4 million direct loan to Space Communication of Ramat Gan, Israel, to finance the Space...
Offshore drilling contractor Noble Corporation has signed a $600 million unsecured revolving credit agreement with a syndicate of banks. Noble Cayman is the borrower of...
The United Nations has announced the appointment of Arancha Gonzalez of Spain as executive director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), the joint agency of the...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $25 million loan to RG Brands, a food and beverage producer in Kazakhstan. The loan, which is...
The International Underwriting Association (IUA) has launched a new London market political risk committee. The group is made up of underwriting and claims...
Russian steel producer and mining group Metinvest has appointed Aleksey Kutepov as its new chief financial officer (CFO). As CFO he replaces Sergiy Novikov, who will...
Energy trader Gunvor has signed a new $500 million borrowing base, revolving credit facility to finance the working capital needs of the company’s refinery in Ingolstadt,...
The facility signed amounts to $600 million, and carries a tenor of one-year. This new arrangement amends an existing $1.15 billion facility signed in second quarter...
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.
This year's winners of the TXF Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders, with ESG credentials the running theme across those winning deals.
Since the first announcement of a partnership between Euler Hermes and Trafigura in 2022, European ECAs have built steady relationships with commodity traders. Today, as supply chain dislocation fades and funding demands ease, what role does the ECA-trader deal still have to play?
How do you have a thriving offshore wind export business when you don’t, technically, have an offshore wind industry? Norway’s exporters are finding the answer, and of Norway’s green exports, offshore wind is by far the largest supported by Eksfin. Tone Lunde Bakker, CEO of Eksfin discusses how the restructured agency has been helping support the pivot away from fossil fuels, into wind, marine, onshore aquaculture, to name a few.
Unveil Amsterdam's allure! Elevate your pipeline with top dealmakers. An Industry Awards dinner adds glamour to this unmissable adventure.
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Join us on a mythical adventure through all things export, agency & project finance as TXF Global 2024 travels to the historic city of Athens for the first time!
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