Sustainable horticultural production in Kenya has received a boost with new funding from development finance institution Proparco.

After the success of the first roundtable last November in Paris, the day before ECA/DFI Finance in 2014, Henri D’Ambrieres and Maelia Dufour hosted a second roundtable...

Last week in Paris, TXF welcomed close to 400 exporters, borrowers, ECA's, DFI's, banks and law firms to their second edition ECA/DFI Finance event.

International law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has expanded its Paris banking and finance practice with the hiring of Janet Butterworth, as a partner.

Scobie Mackay has been promoted to the position of head, commodity traders and agribusiness, trade finance at Standard Chartered (StanChart)in Singapore.

Specialist insurer, Markel International, has appointed Simon Philpin as underwriter and senior risk analyst in its trade credit division.

This is a particularly big year for the Berne Union, which has now been supporting exporters, borrowers, investors and the overall export financing sector for the past 80...

Jonathan Bell, editor-in-chief at TXF, talks with Dan Riordan, president of the Berne Union, about taking the organisation forward in its 80th year.

Oruro, Bolivia sits on the High Andean Plain 180 km south-east of La Paz. As the sun rose over this bucolic community of miners on 9 February, 2007, soldiers of the...

The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), the insurance arm of the AAA rated Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB) based in...

Hesham Zakai provides an overview of the FImetrix survey on commodity trading companies' views on finance and regulation.

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.

Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its Latin America coverage with the opening of an office in Brazil. The firm’s Brazilian practice will initially be based in...

Russia’s Sberbank Corporate & Investment Banking (Sberbank CIB) has reported a record number of trade finance and documentary operations (TF&DO) implemented for the...

Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has appointed banking and finance partner Keith Sandilands to head its aviation practice in Asia. He recently moved from the...

Joint sponsors Goldwind International Holdings (HK) Limited and Unión Eólica Panameña (UEP) have secured financing for Panama’s first wind farm.

Brazilian petrochemical products company Braskem has signed a $535 syndicated trade credit loan with a group of banks.

HSBC has appointed Luiz Simione as global head of forfaiting and risk distribution for global trade and receivables finance (GTRF). He will be based in London and takes...