Daniel Riordan reviews the risks facing insurers in 2015 and highlights how the Berne Union is adapting to help its members

Michal Ron, managing director, head of international business, SACE, argues that knowledge-sharing and cooperation in the export finance industry is a quick-fire way of...

Annual business volumes of many insurers and banks are more often than not driven by project finance and large corporate loan transactions. However, when looking at the...

Finland’s Export Guarantee Act was amended in September 2014 to enable export credit agency (ECA) Finnvera to grant guarantees also to large companies in Finland for...

If we think about academic research, we often think about theory development and testing with no or little concern for impact on the real world. We sometimes believe that...

Exporters – large, medium, small or tiny – play a vital role in any economy. Creating a business-friendly environment for these companies to help increase exports is...

Sanctions on Russia and Crimea have introduced additional regulatory and commercial considerations for companies engaging in business transactions with certain parties in...

Banks cite SME lending (68%) and supply chain finance (61%) facing the greatest pressure from non-bank players. However, many also see new opportunities in strategic...

Mining company Lundin Gold’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Aurelian Ecuador has appointed Endeavour Financial as its financial advisor to provide debt financial advisory...

Deutsche Bank’s Daniel Schmand is the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Banking Commission new chairman. Here, he sets out his vision for the trade finance...

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has signed a new £10.07 billion ($15.24 billion) bridge credit facility with core relationship banks, as part of its financing related to the...

Italian export credit agency SACE is set to expand activity with Cuba and has raised the ceiling for the support of Italian exports and investments in the country.

There is a general consensus within the banking industry that – as a concept at least – privileging short-term profitability over the long-term health of an institution...

Intellect Design Arena (Intellect) has announced that it has appointed Andrew England as director of its UK subsidiary and head of strategy of its transaction banking...

China’s export credit agency (ECA), China Export and Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure), is providing a direct loan to the Trinidadian oil exploration and production...

In recent years, books and websites have been full of articles discussing the changing landscape of export credit financing.

One major lesson learned from the financial crises in emerging markets since the 1980s is that large currency mismatches, both at a public and private sector level,...

Before the financial crisis of 2008-2009, internal consumption and increasing private and public indebtedness – key factors behind economic growth in developed countries...

Commerzbank has hired Eva Steinhaus as its new director of structured export and trade finance in corporate banking for the Middle East region. She will be working from...

Ina Kerr, CEO Bolero International, looks at the growing business case for ePresentation.