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...

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...

ING Bank is providing Singapore-based shipping company Quantum Pacific Shipping with a $344.7 million loan, which will be backed by Korean export credit agency (ECA)...

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...

The Norwegian export credit agency GIEK has issued a buyer credit guarantee of NOK123.4 million ($14.9 million) for the long-term post financing of the platform supply...

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,...