A partnership founded by Simon Greenshields, the former co-head of commodities at Morgan Stanley, has bought US-based Phibro - once the 'largest physical commodity...

America has relaxed its rules for financing certain exports to Cuba. Some industries will now be able to arrange competitive export packages from the US, whereas...

Japan and China are increasingly being pitted against one another in the fight to win orders for infrastructure development. Demand for the projects is set to increase...

The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) has signed a deal with the country's Resource Group of Companies to insure the export of...

UK bank Barclays made its entire London export finance team redundant last Friday, 22 January 2016, amid a wider cull of the bank’s investment banking division.

SACE, Italy's export credit agency, has signed an agreement with Iran to recover €564 million in credit - a move which lays the foundations for reviving...

Euler Hermes has become the first trade credit insurer in America to offer a customised product to protect micro and small businesses from the risk of not being paid...

Trade may have been a key driver of global growth for developing countries and emerging markets but is the current pace and direction less helpful for development? And...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a record $2.6 billion of new financing and investments for the private sector in 2015, a 37% increase from a year earlier and...

PetroQuest Energy, a US-based independent oil and natural gas company, has seen the borrowing base on its credit facility drop from $55 million to $42 million.

Norway's liquid petroleum gas transportation company Aurora LPG has received a $200 million loan from the Netherlands' ABN AMRO and the Export-Import Bank of...

Saudi Arabian Airlines, the kingdom's national carrier, plans to raise up to $1.33 billion in Islamic bonds to refinance existing debt and purchase new aircraft....

Aon Risk Solutions, the global risk management business of Aon, has acquired the customer portfolio of Netherlands-based credit management firm Kingsley Trade Credit....

Export Development Canada (EDC) has issued a CAD $3.5 million loan guarantee to help a footwear producer secure financing to begin exporting internationally....

Procter & Gamble Asia’s PV Mahajan shares his top tips for inventory and cash flow improvement, ahead of his presentation at TXF’s Trade, Treasury & Commodity Finance...

Ali Darzi, founder and principal of Iran Foreign Investment Consultants (IranFIC), discusses the cover available for foreign investments in the Persian country.

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) will this year slash export financing for the first time in 40 years. The bank will cut its outlay to $62.7 billion and target...

China and Iran have agreed to an ambitious plan to increase trade to $600 billion over the next ten years. The two nations signed 17 documents and letters of intent,...

Supermarket giant Tesco deliberately delayed payments to suppliers in some cases to boost profits, according to the Grocery Code Adjudicator. The company has been told...

The slump in commodity prices is hitting producers and is a risk to the supply chain, according to a report by IHS. Many producers are operating at a loss, leading to...