The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod), the industry body representing the country’s cocoa producers, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for a new medium-term trade...

In spite of the industry-wide push to attract investors to trade finance in recent years, risk distribution in the market has slumped in 2015 as waning flows have seen...

At the end of September, US multinational General Electric signed a cooperation agreement with Britain’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance. The MoU could oversee up...

TXF recently caught up with the five most prolific dealmakers on tagmydeals to find out a little bit about them, their favourite deals from the first half of 2015, and...

The global economy finds itself in an exceptional position: while world GDP continues to grow at a healthy rate, world trade is declining and facing some gusty headwinds....

Banks, rather than “thinly-capitalised” fintech providers, are still best placed to provide supply chain finance (SCF) programmes to corporate buyers, Citi’s EMEA supply...

The usual spiel given by the supply chain finance (SCF) salesman to the corporate buyer is that a SCF programme is a 'win, win, win' solution: a nifty, cutting-edge...

More small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are seeking to export their goods and services abroad following a government export push in recent years, a couple of...

Former President of the European Commission, and one of the initial architects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), José Manuel Barroso stated he...

Oliver Gordon catches up with some leading figures to discuss whether trade finance is still being unfairly penalised under the Basel III framework.

TXF’s Hesham Zakai ventures into the brave – but not so new – world of supply chain finance vendors and their respective offerings.

A funding crisis is developing in the commodities market as producers and traders, particularly of the small and mid-sized variety, struggle to access the type and volume...

In a development that might raise a few eyebrows in the export finance world, Italian export credit agency (ECA) SACE has topped the ECA export finance table in the first...

The Middle East was the top destination for export finance in the first half of the year, surging 18% year-on-year – TXF’s H1 Export Finance Report revealed this week.

Global trade growth built up expectations with a healthy recovery following the crisis, but it has since relapsed to a snail-like pace of advancement. Despite their...

Transport has wrestled energy off its throne as the leading sector for export finance in the first half of 2015 – TXF’s H1 Export Finance Report revealed this week.

Export finance volumes in the first half of 2015 have tumbled by 28% year-on-year, and by 35% compared to the second half of last year, TXF’s H1 Export Finance Report...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a $40 million trade finance facility to Egypt’s fourth largest commercial bank, QNB Al Ahli, in a...

Barclays has collaborated with Chinese export credit agency (ECA) Sinosure to arrange $828 million in overall project financing for Zambia’s Maamba Collieries. The...

If prizes were being dished out for corporate success since the turn of the millennium, the big commodity trading houses would be right up there at the front of the...