UK Export Finance’s chief executive, Louis Taylor, tells TXF how the export credit agency is broadening its product suite to offer more support to UK exporters.

Ghana has approved its new Export-Import Bank after months of political wrangling. But will export financiers be prepared to engage with Africa’s latest export credit...

Coface, the French export credit agency (ECA), was the single most active ECA in 2015 for medium and long-term debt supporting a total of $7.73 billion worth of...

Nokia — Finland’s premier telecoms company — is in the process of finalising its takeover of France’s Alcatel-Lucent in a $16.6 billion deal that will propel the ailing...

In a new report just released, it asserts that banks and fintechs should collaborate rather than compete, as a strategy to overcome some of the challenges facing the...

Daniel Schmand, Deutsche Bank’s EMEA head of trade finance & cash management corporates, was elected the new chair of the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC)...

A lot can happen in 12 months. But don’t take our word for it, just ask those in the export finance industry who have set themselves – or been set – on new career paths...

There are two distinct possibilities for the future of sustainable trade. One is a positive vision in which deeper globalisation trumps protectionism, and the march of...

At the Berne Union - the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers - and Prague Club annual general meeting this week in Shanghai - hosted by China’s official...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and IE Singapore have collaborated to launch the ICC Academy, which aims to provide “rigorous and relevant” business education...

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...

As part of the 2015 Berne Union and Prague Club Spring Meeting held in Florence, Italy, and hosted by SACE, a CEO panel was held to discuss members’ various perspectives...

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...

Sinosure's chairman, Wang Yi, describes how the world’s largest ECA has changed both procedures and structure as it undergoes rapid growth.

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...

The financial services association BAFT has published a new guide designed to help practitioners involved in oil and gas financing transactions. The Oil and Gas Industry:...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has today launched the ICC Global Export Finance Committee – an export finance working group, chaired by Eric de Jonge, global...

International law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has hired Haydn Dare as a partner to work on corporate and project finance with a particular focus on Singapore and...

As of midnight last night the charter for Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) officially expired, as no new vote on its reathorisation had taken place in...