IFC and Société Générale CIB (SG CIB) have co-arranged a $300 million trade finance facility to fund crude oil imports into Cote d’Ivoire. The arrangement is for the...
Russia’ power sector is to get a major boost with a 12-year, €100 million ($136 million) loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)to assist...
Russian mining and metals company, Mechel, has agreed terms for covenant holidays with a group of international lenders and separately in relation to bilateral credit...
The German development bank – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft (DEG) – will contribute $18.5 million as part of a loan package to finance the expansion...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has come up with one of its largest direct loans to date under its direct lending programme – a $640.7 million...
In a new survey on risk published by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) it reveals that foreign investors are increasingly cautious about investing in...
Schlumberger the world’s largest oilfield services company, has selected Standard Chartered (StanChart) to provide a comprehensive cash management and trade guarantee...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a new debt facility to Ukrainian agribusiness producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP Group).
According to the Society for Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), China’s renminbi (RMB) overtook the euro as the world’s second most-used trade...
Russia’s Sberbank has signed its first export credit transaction with the Export-Import Bank of Hungary (Hungarian Exim), allowing for the export of...
Russian oil exploration and producing company, Gazprom-Neft, has signed a $2.15 billion club term facility agreement with a group of international banks. The heavily...
Another chance to see Geoff Wynne's lecture on trends in trade finance
Russia’s Gazprombank has agreed to provide financing to an oil producing joint venture with Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), the state-owned Venezuelan oil and natural gas...
The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has agreed to provide a ship bond guarantee to help ship financing to a local shipping company - Sinokor Petrochemical. This is...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has appointed Charles J ‘CJ’ Hall as executive vice president and chief risk officer. He has 35 years of...
French-headquartered development finance institution Proparco has signed a $50 million loan with the pan-Aafrican banking group Ecobank. The loan was signed with...
French bank Natixis is expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific with two new hires for its regional banking platform within trade and treasury. Yuri Lin has been appointed...
Standard Chartered Bank (StandChart) and Agricultural Bank of China Limited (AgBC) have signed an agreement to collaborate to provide renminbi (RMB) clearing services in...
Last week, TXF held its first Short-Term Trade & Supply Chain Finance event in Munich – and a humdinger of an event it was too. I learned masses of stuff - and I’m sure...
A consortium led by ACWA Power International has signed the financing agreements for the 2060MW Rabigh 2 independent power project (R2IPP) power project in Saudi Arabia.
In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade. Is she the 'Queen Creole' of trade facilitation?
Pauli Heikkilä, CEO of Finnvera, reflects on the swinging pendulum for export financing he’s seen in two decades heading Finland’s ECA. Global swings from market forces towards protectionism using public money is not risk free, he warns.
In advance of his appearance at TXF Global in Athens, Tim Reid, CEO of UK Export Finance, discusses the lenses through which the ECA will define the success of its new business plan, which builds on its record as the fourth most active ECA in 2023 according to TXF Intelligence.
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