South Korea's two main policy lenders, Korea Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of Korea, today announced plans to provide Daewoo Shipbuilding &...

Nordea has announced capabilities to handle the SWIFT MT798 messaging in a fully automated manner. MT798 is SWIFT initiative that facilitates Corporate to Bank (C2B)...

The global shortage of available trade financing poses a huge risk to economic development and international trade; however, new technologies are disrupting old-school...

Donald Trump’s stunning, upset victory Tuesday over Hillary Clinton for the presidency of the United States sent shockwaves around the world and hiked...

The parties have identified the following priority investment areas: energy and energy efficiency; transport, industrial and energy infrastructure; and cross-border...

European banks already tormented by low interest rates and economic uncertainty face new anxieties from US President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory,...

Calling for a robust, vibrant and well-functioning Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC), Indian Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday...

Singapore-based independent asset manager, EFA Group, and Galena Asset Management have announced that EFA will take over as investment manager of the Galena Commodity...

More Australian businesses trying to take their products or services global may soon be able to access extra government support. A bill put to Australia's...

Reduced growth forecasts for global trade from the WTO has caused consternation among businesses and economies as the gloomy outlook sees trade flows dip below GDP...

DS-Concept, a provider of international trade finance and factoring, has announced that René Pastor, currently senior executive vice president, global business...

Iran suffered massively from the economic sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union. The Iranian oil and gas industry was especially badly impacted,...

A first-of-its-kind issue tests out several environmental finance concepts, but more development will be required before bonds become useful to the forestry sector.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Export Development Canada (EDC) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) are co-financing a...

Dutch development bank FMO, Austria's OeEB, and the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) have agreed a $44 million loan with Bangladesh's One Bank...

Law firm Stephenson Harwood has hired shipping disputes lawyer Edward Newitt to its Dubai practice. He joins from Holman Fenwick Willan, where he spent 11 years.

Increased international trade restrictions and the Brexit fall-out saw global supply chain risk grow to its highest level since 2013. The rise is strongest in Western...

Matthew Vickerstaff has been appointed deputy chief executive and head of project finance at the UK's Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA). He spent over...

BPL Global, the credit and political risk insurance broker, has hired Emma Ashworth as a director. She previously spent 29 years at Willis, where she was most recently...

In the latest edition of law firm Sullivan & Worcester's Trade Finance Breakfast Seminars, partner Geoffrey Wynne discusses whether digitalisation can end paper-based...