Specialist positioning technology provider Trimble has appointed Francois Delepine as chief financial officer (CFO). Trimble integrates a wide range of positioning...

KfW IPEX-Bank is providing a €55 million ($75 million) loan to finance German equipment supplies for the expansion of the petrochemical complex of Gail India Limited...

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...

Uralkali, the Russian potash producer, has signed its first ever ECA-backed transaction. The $236 million (€171.4 million) financing will fund the construction of two...

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...

Standard Chartered (StanChart) announced today that it has completed a trade finance transaction with the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) under the Uniform Rules for BPO...

Several significant changes to the ICC Banking Commission executive committee were announced during October’s meeting in Vienna. Long time industry stalwarts, Dan Taylor...

An update on the progress of the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) was provided at the ICC Annual Meeting in Vienna, Austria. Questions flew in thick and fast from bankers...

Margrith Lütschg-Emmenegger has been name as the new chairman of the International Factors Group (IFG). Lütschg-Emmenegger, who is president at FIMBank in Malta, has...

China Development Bank (CDB) has agreed to provide facilities of up to $1.2 billion to Russian state-owned Vnesheconombank (VEB) during a regular meeting of Russian and...

Atradius Dutch State Business (DSB), the export credit agency of the Netherlands, has announced that banks outside the OECD area are now eligible for export credit cover...

Aviation Capital Group (ACG) has closed a four-year, senior unsecured revolving credit facility of $850 million. The facility increases ACG’s committed revolving debt...

US law firm Sullivan & Worcester opened its London offices today. This is the first office for the law firm outside of North America. The London office is located at...

Russia’s Promsvyazbank (PSB) has signed one-year, dual-tranche loan facility agreement with a syndicate of international banks, amounting to a total of $300 million.

Daniel Riordan, CEO of Global Corporate, Zurich North America has been elected president of the Berne Union – the international association of export credit insurers. He...

Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) has successfully completed a RMB2.5 billion ($408.4 million) cross-border lending deal for the international mobile broadband...

HSBC has recruited Bart Ras to its ranks where he will have the title of global head of business development for the bank’s global trade and receivables finance (GTRF)...

Energy trading company Gunvor has closed the $675 million long-term secured financing facility for the company’s flagship investment - the Ust Luga Oil Products Terminal...

Canada’s Scotiabank has completed the Canadian rollout of CGI’s cloud-based, ‘software-as-a-service’ (SaaS) solution, CGI Trade360. The announcement was made at Sibos...

South African banks Nedbank and Rand Merchant Bank are to provide Aureus Mining with a $100 million debt financing package to develop its flagship New Liberty Gold...