The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and Mauritius-based AfrAsia Holdings Limited have signed a term sheet for a $10 million facility. The funds will be made...
HSBC China has initiated renminbi (RMB) two-way cross-border sweeping for businesses in the pilot Shanghai free trade zone (FTZ), with industrial manufacturer Dover being...
The Singapore-based United Overseas Bank (UOB) has appointed Jim Liddell, former vice president of trade finance at Scotiabank (and occasional TXF contributor), as its...
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Jordan’s second largest commercial bank, the Housing Bank for Trade and Finance (HBTF), has secured a $50 million loan from the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim).
Russia’s VTB Bank has announced that it arranged deals worth more than $4 billion in 2013 as part of a drive to develop its international trade and export finance...
Russia’s Novatek and Total have approved a final investment decision (FID) for the Yamal LNG (liquefied natural gas) project, consisting of the development of the...
United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has closed a $1.251 billion multi-tranche syndicated loan facility for the partial financing container ships. The transaction is for...
Dana Petroleum has secured a new $1.5 billion credit facility from a syndicate of international banks.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing (KTZ), the national railways company with a $ 40 million loan.
Aureus Mining has signed the $88 million project finance loan facility agreement with the South African banks Nedbank Limited and Rand Merchant Bank (RMB). It has also...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has announced a new slate of members for its advisory committee as of today. Now in its 31st year, the...
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has signed agreements for increased cooperation in third-country projects with three French organisations that occupy key...
International law firm Ince & Co has appointed Stuart Shepherd as its new global head of trade. He succeeds Steven Fox who will be retiring from the firm in April...
IFC and Société Générale CIB (SG CIB) have co-arranged a $300 million trade finance facility to fund crude oil imports into Cote d’Ivoire. The arrangement is for the...
In a new survey on risk published by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) it reveals that foreign investors are increasingly cautious about investing in...
According to the Society for Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), China’s renminbi (RMB) overtook the euro as the world’s second most-used trade...
Russian oil exploration and producing company, Gazprom-Neft, has signed a $2.15 billion club term facility agreement with a group of international banks. The heavily...
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has agreed to provide a ship bond guarantee to help ship financing to a local shipping company - Sinokor Petrochemical. This is...
French-headquartered development finance institution Proparco has signed a $50 million loan with the pan-Aafrican banking group Ecobank. The loan was signed with...
The financing backing TotalEnergies’ Mozambique LNG project was taken out of the financial fridge earlier this year but funds are yet to be disbursed. With the latest military insurgence in the gas-rich region, and ECAs and banks reticent on when the deal will close, meeting conditions precedent seems ambitious in 2024.
The return of Commodity Trading Week marks a period of sustained calm in the commodities markets – at least in contrast with the volatility of recent years. But how long will this last, and what can the industry do to manage risk going forwards?
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
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