Accuity, the financial compliance solutions provider, has announced a new capability to give banks details of groups and individuals who have an owing interest of 0.1%...

Dr Jim Yong Kim has been unanimously reappointed to a second five-year term as president of the World Bank Group. The second term begins in July 2017.

Export Development Canada (EDC) has agreed to provide up to $100 million in guarantees or letters of credit to support solar power group Canadian Solar's global...

Octet, an Australian fintech group, has hired its first executive in Europe, Marius Savin. He will be responsible for boosting Octet's growth in Europe by working...

Insurer Euler Hermes and fintech group URICA are working together to offer French companies a new online financing solution. The product helps small and medium-sized...

The perception of Africa as high-risk - and that trade there is complex - often stops businesses from identifying opportunities, but the numbers paint a different...

HSBC has created a multi-hub capability which allows investors - such as asset managers and insurers - to take part in the financing of cross-border trade, it...

Swiss-headquartered, Russia-focused fertiliser producer Eurochem’s recent PXF sees the potash supplier attempt to restructure its debt and manage liquidity at a time of...

Despite a crop-damaging drought and fears about production levels, the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has refinanced its annual PXF in a vastly oversubscribed facility. The...

UK Export Finance (UKEF), Britain's export credit agency, insists there is no target date to restore support for Airbus amid a corruption probe. Sources said...

Standard Chartered (StanChart) and China Merchants Bank (CMB) have sealed a One Belt One Road agreement to boost regional cooperation and growth for countries along...

Expensive labour, poor infrastructure, and limited trade deals undermined manufacturing exports in Latin America, insurer Coface found. And a strong rebound is...

KUKE, the Polish export credit agency, has insured a contract of steel structure producer Vistal Gdynia for the supply of harbour cranes for a port infrastructure...

SWIFT is set to launch Name Screening - a service designed to boost financial institutions' compliance efforts through screening against a variety of lists,...

Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), Australia's export credit agency, has launched an app to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) boost...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) and America's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) may help finance a six-lane, Nairobi-Mombasa...

Standard Chartered revealed at Sibos 2016 that it has teamed up with GlobalTrade Corporation (GTC) to offer GTC's @GlobalTrade multibank trade finance platform to...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) and Microsoft announced at Sibos 2016 a collaboration to build and test new blockchain technology for trade finance transactions..

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has seen a huge growth in renminbi (RMB) adoption - a 210% rise in payments value of the currency since August 2014, according to...

Emmanuel Lemoine has been appointed the Paris-based director regional trade sales at ING Wholesale Banking. He has more than 20 years experience in banking,...