Trade finance at the 2014 WTO Public Forum
The annual World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum provides an opportunity for dialogue, an exchange of ideas and the conduct of deliberations on major issues in...
The annual World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum provides an opportunity for dialogue, an exchange of ideas and the conduct of deliberations on major issues in...
TXF talks to Barclays about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.
The German state-owned development bank, KfW IPEX-Bank, will provide a €100 million ($126 million) for the construction of the Kuolavaara-Keulakkopään Tuulipuisto Oy wind...
Toronto-headquartered, Guyana Goldfields, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, AGM Inc has closed the $185 million, loan portion, of its project financing to fund the...
Independent US-based oil exploration and production company EnerJex Resources has increased the borrowing base under its existing revolving line of credit. In addition,...
Solena Fuels is to construct a new facility that transforms landfill waste into jet fuel with the support of British Airways. The facility, which will be the first of its...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has forecast that global trade will grow at a modest rate of 4.7% in 2014, and at a slightly faster rate of 5.3% in 2015.
Barclays has appointed Karl Trumper as head of trade & working capital UK.
Agri-trading company Cargill and Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer have reached agreement to combine their sugar trading activities in a new joint venture company.
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Robert Morin as senior vice president for business and...
An initiative, announced today, could soon see the establishment of the new Ghana Commodity Exchange (GCX). And beyond this, there is the potential for the GCX to become...
Russian oil and gas company Lukoil has signed an export finance package with a club of international banks for a major upgrade programme at its Bulgarian refining...
Swiss commodities trader Ecom Agroindustrial Corporation (Ecom) is in the process of buying Armajaro Trading, the trading arm of London-based commodity trading house and...
The UK and South Korea are set for greater cooperation between the two countries in the field of export finance following the signing of cooperation agreements between...
Credit and political risk specialist Garant and Russian export credit agency, Export Insurance Agency of Russia (EXIAR), have signed a cooperation agreement in...
Danish export credit agency Export Kredit Fonden (EKF) has reported a significant rise in the number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) winning SME export...
Specialist positioning technology provider Trimble has appointed Francois Delepine as chief financial officer (CFO). Trimble integrates a wide range of positioning...
Development finance institutions (DFIs) have combined to provide an overall financing facility of $69 million for a sustainable forestry project in Latin America (LatAm).
Stuart Grice has been appointed head of trade credit at Bluefin insurance group with immediate effect. Based in London, Grice will manage Bluefin's credit insurance team...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has contributed over $1 billion in revenues to the US Treasury for the fiscal year 2013. This revenue, generated...
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.