The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved an unfunded $40 million Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) with Banco Santander (Santander).

Commodities powerhouse Trafigura Beheer BV (Trafigura) has successfully priced a €550 million bond issue under the company’s European Medium Term Note (EMTN) programme,...

The government of Mongolia and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) have signed a legal agreement that will enhance MIGA’s ability to insure foreign direct...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a $10 million trade facility to Capital Bank (CB) Jordan under the development bank’s Trade...

The government of Dubai has revealed a collaboration with Citi that will introduce a new supply chain finance mechanism to government suppliers and provide financial...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Austria is hosting its annual International Trade Finance Week 2015 from June 8-12 this year in Vienna. The rapidly-growing...

Fabrice Morel, the deputy secretary general of the Berne Union, has announced he will be leaving the association on Friday 17 April.

International law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has boosted its commodities practice with the recruitment of Marc Weisberger, who has joins the firm world as a...

A federal US judge has thrown out a long-held suit – led by domestic airline Delta Airlines – against the US export credit agency (ECA), the Export-Import Bank of the...

ABN AMRO has strengthened the sector focus of its energy, commodities & transportation (ECT) clients business with the appointment of Albena Vassileva. She has the title...

Democrat senator Joe Manchin and Republican counterpart Mark Kirk have published the ‘Export-Import Bank Reform and Reauthorisation Act of 2015’ – a bipartisan bill...

Denmark’s Spar Nord Bank has adopted MIT’s front-to-back trade finance platform in a bid to refresh its operational processes.

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...

Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) and Natixis have announced the closing of the debt financing for Seabras-1, the new subsea fibre optic cable system between the commercial and...

Biosev, the Brazilian sugar and ethanol arm of French commodity trading firm Louis Dreyfus, has signed a loan with an international bank group, designed to increase its...

HSBC has strengthened its global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) team with two senior appointments.

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) has signed a Murabaha agreement with the government of Burkina...

ING Commercial Banking Germany has today appointed Andreas Becker as head of clients and products in its Frankfurt headquarters.

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided a €77 million ($92 million) loan to Egypt’s Kafr el-Sheikh Water and Sanitation Company to help expand wastewater...

Sasol, the South African energy and chemical corporation, has completed the credit facility required for the construction of its ethane cracker and derivatives complex at...