Daniel Riordan, CEO of Global Corporate, Zurich North America has been elected president of the Berne Union – the international association of export credit insurers. He...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing funds to Garanti Bank and Yapi Kredi of Turkey to help small and medium-sized company (SME)...
HSBC has made appointments in its commodities in Singapore and in payments and cash management in Sydney. In Singapore, the bank has appointed Woei Kuen Yeo as head of...
Key personnel from the export credit agency (ECA) and private insurance community were in attendance at the Berne Union AGM held in Vienna last week. TXF was kindly...
Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) has successfully completed a RMB2.5 billion ($408.4 million) cross-border lending deal for the international mobile broadband...
US-headquartered oil and gas exploration and development company, Noble Energy, has successfully arranged a new revolving credit facility (RCF) with a syndicate of...
ABN AMRO is targeting growth in commodity structured inventory products (SIP) in Asia-Pacific with the launch of its first dedicated desk in Singapore. The services will...
Russian fertiliser producer PhosAgro has opened a trading arm in Singapore, opening of PhosAgro Asia, which will focus on sales of mineral fertilisers to countries in...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a €60 million ($81.6 million) loan to Turkey’s Sekerbank, as part of a programme to assist...
Chilean shipping company Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) has secured export credit financing with a consortium of banks and Korean agencies to support the...
Russia’s Sberbank has signed a general financing agreement with Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), under which financing amounting to $600 million will be...
Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has signed a collaboration pact with Tata Africa Services and John Deere Financial, whereby Stanbic IBTC Bank will...
There appears to be plenty of personnel movements in the trade finance sector at the present time – some of these we are able to write about, while others are, shall we...
Michael Spiegel, Global Head, Trade Finance and Cash Management at Deutsche Bank speaks to Jonathan Bell of TXF and speculates that supply chain finance may be reaching a...
International law firm King & Spalding has hired Alejandro Jara, former deputy director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as senior counsel in the WTO and...
Swiss-headquartered agri-trading company Ecom Agroindustrial has signed its latest revolving credit facility (RCF), originally launched in August (TXF News 12 August).
Russian aluminium producer Rusal has made changes in its finance directorate and appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO).
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has provided more than ZAR180 million ($18.2 million) financing to a 27MW wind project near Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has recruited Claudia Slacik as chief banking officer and senior vice president for export finance. She joins US...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) is supporting the purchase of two American-manufactured agricultural aircraft by a Brazilian soybean and...
This year's winners of the TXF Export Finance Deals of the Year beat a lot of worthy contenders, with ESG credentials the running theme across those winning deals.
Since the first announcement of a partnership between Euler Hermes and Trafigura in 2022, European ECAs have built steady relationships with commodity traders. Today, as supply chain dislocation fades and funding demands ease, what role does the ECA-trader deal still have to play?
How do you have a thriving offshore wind export business when you don’t, technically, have an offshore wind industry? Norway’s exporters are finding the answer, and of Norway’s green exports, offshore wind is by far the largest supported by Eksfin. Tone Lunde Bakker, CEO of Eksfin discusses how the restructured agency has been helping support the pivot away from fossil fuels, into wind, marine, onshore aquaculture, to name a few.
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