Agriculture forms the backbone of many economies in the Pacific Islands. Despite their geographic remoteness, a handful of islands are quietly building burgeoning export...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group, is to provide insurance for a loan...

Swiss-headquartered, energy trading company Mercuria Energy has signeda $2.65 billion revolving credit facility (RCF), with the oversubscription on the initial launch...

As the most extensive urban metro system in the Caribbean and only the second in existence, Santo Domingo’s Metro is an ambitious programme to modernise transport...

Tony Elumelu is chairman of Nigeria-based investment company Heirs Holdings and conglomerate Transcorp. He is also founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, a philanthropic...

IFC is providing debt financing of up to $250 million to Ukrainian poultry producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP). The loan will be used to help the company expand its...

Brazil’s Biosev, the world's second largest sugarcane processor, with 11 industrial units strategically located in four agro-industrial clusters in Brazil, has closed a...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is pushing the need for more factoring across Africa, stressing that the lack of factoring services is hindering small-to...

TXF and ANZ conducted an anonymous industry survey at the ECA/DFI Finance Conference in Paris last week. Delegates were each given a handset and asked to give a response...

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has launched Surecomp’s allTRA multi-entity Java trade finance system in Singapore.

Commodity trading group Glencore Xstrata (Glencore) has signed its annual revolving credit facilities for a total amount of $15.3 billion.

Hong Kong headquartered Tai Chong Cheang Steamship Group (TCC Group) has secured financing amounting to $47.7 million to finance the purchase of two bulk carriers from...

Hesham Zakai talks with David Godfrey, chief executive officer of UK Export Finance, about the turnaround which the agency has undergone in the last five years.

TXF talks with several Asia-Pacific heads of export finance about trends and prospects for the business line in the region.

Hesham Zakai analyses the results of the inaugural ICC export finance benchmarking survey.

Jonathan Bell talks with Jonathan Joseph-Horne, head of export & agency finance for EMEA within the global trade finance department, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation...

In this article, Charles Berry, Chairman, BPL Global, argues that, increasingly, the ECAs are needed to provide additional capacity for risks for which there is market...

Hesham Zakai assesses the impact of the Russia-Ukraine political problems on trade.

Jonathan Bell examines the renaissance of shipbuilding in Asia in a sector assisted by the demand for specialised vessels.

Belgian-incorporated metals and mining company Nyrstar has signed a binding agreement for the final funding and support package for the redevelopment of the Port Pirie...