Minera Escondida Limitada (MEL), the owner of the Escondida copper mine in Chile, has received a $100 million loan from Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC),...

Seaborn Networks (Seaborn) has mandated French bank Natixis to arrange the financing for Seaborn’s new submarine cable project, known as Seabras-1, linking commercial and...

Supply chain finance provider Crossflow Payments has strengthened its business development team with the appointment of Alistair Ward and Peter Renshaw as business...

Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its Latin America coverage with the opening of an office in Brazil. The firm’s Brazilian practice will initially be based in...

Political risk insurance (PRI) broker Berry Palmer & Lyle (BPL Global) is expanding its operational scope in Asia with the hiring of Margaret Ho as a senior broker for...

Russian shipping company Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has signed a new $316 million credit facility for the purchase of two new ice-class LNG (liquefied natural gas)...

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 IFC and Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) have signed a unique risk sharing facility, which will increase the amount of renminbi (RMB) denominated trade finance...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has appointed Charles J ‘CJ’ Hall as executive vice president and chief risk officer. He has 35 years of...

Standard Chartered Bank (StandChart) and Agricultural Bank of China Limited (AgBC) have signed an agreement to collaborate to provide renminbi (RMB) clearing services in...

ABN AMRO has appointed Peter Boogers as global head of energy within the bank’s energy, commodities and transportation (ECT) business. Boogers is promoted from his...

Swiss commodities trader Ecom Agroindustrial Corporation (Ecom) is in the process of buying Armajaro Trading, the trading arm of London-based commodity trading house and...

Berne Union, the association of export credit insurers, today announced the retirement of secretary general Peter Jones.

TXF talks to UniCredit about some of the major trends impacting the export credit sector at the present time.

TXF talks to HSBC about some of the major trends impacting the export credit sector at the present time.

BNY Mellon has appointed Monika Aminiova as market manager for treasury services in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) based in London. With the aim of...

Alexander Malaket weighs up the pros and cons as Canada’s provision of trade finance looks to service much more than big brother US next door.

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has signed a reciprocal risk participation agreement (RRPA) with the Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim) to boost...

At the St Petersburg International Economic Forum in mid-June, commodity trading company Trafigura signed a five year contract with a pre-payment to supply crude oil and...