UniCredit has made senior managerial changes in its corporate & investment banking (CIB) division with the aim to further develop the business in support of a larger and...

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...

Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex) has disbursed a $125 million, 5-year senior unsecured term loan for Banco de Costa Rica (BCR).

Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex) has closed a $40 million, 3-year senior secured trade finance term loan for Peruvian-based Banco Financiero del Perú...

The Korean and Australian governments have signed the Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement (KAFTA), which aims to eliminate most tariff barriers into Korea, Australia’s...

BNP Paribas has appointed Peter Kwok as CEO of its China offices. He will take over the role from Clarence T’ao, who will be appointed as head of emerging Asian markets,...

Panama-based Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior (Bladex), Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden (FMO) and the Dutch Development Bank...

Barclays has appointed Nick Littleford and Paul Woodward as co-heads of large corporate sales finance organisation, UK and Ireland, within the trade and working capital...

International law firm Ashurst has appointed Chin Chuan Chen as a partner in its finance team in Beijing and Singapore. This is the latest appointment in a string of...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is providing guarantees to Banco Santander on a $300 million loan. Risk of the non-honouring of sovereign financial...