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26 January 2016

EFA Group hires senior advisor from BNP Paribas

EFA Group, a Singapore-headquartered independent finance house, has hired Jacques-Olivier Thomann as its senior advisor. He joined the company from BNP Paribas, where...

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26 January 2016

EDC boasts record year of financing in India

Export Development Canada (EDC) provided a record almost $1 billion in financing to facilitate business between Canadian and Indian companies last year. EDC has...

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26 January 2016

SACE: Price drop and rising debt led to billions in lost exports

The commodity price drop, rising debt in emerging countries and growing political violence has led to €5 billion in lost exports, according to Italian export...

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26 January 2016

TriLinc loans boost African and Latin American SMEs

US-based TriLinc Global Impact Fund has approved $15.2 million in term loan and trade finance transactions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Argentina,...

Perspective
25 January 2016

India’s economic ‘Modification’ still not delivering on ECA finance

Despite India’s massive size and forecasts that it could challenge China as the world’s growth engine within a decade, uptake of export credit in the country continues to...

Perspective
25 January 2016

Alibaba trade finance: a misguided step into the unknown

According to ChinaBusinessNews.com and the South China Morning Post, Alibaba Group Holding last week entered into a partnership with more than 25 credit rating agencies...

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25 January 2016

ADB-led PPP project fund launches operations

The Asia-Pacific Project Preparation Facility, a trust fund managed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), has launched. The fund is to help developing Asia and the...

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25 January 2016

Noble Group founder Richard Elman unveils future plans

Richard Elman, the founder and chairman of Hong Kong-headquartered commodity trader Noble Group, expects the company to ride out the market downturn and recover from...

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25 January 2016

Doha Bank and Mexico's Bancomext seal MoU

Doha Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bancomext, Mexico's export credit agency, in a bid to develop business and support trade finance...

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25 January 2016

Snapdeal and Indian SCF firm unite to boost SMEs

Reliance Commercial Finance, the Indian supply chain financing (SCF) firm, has teamed up with online marketplace Snapdeal to boost small and medium-sized...

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25 January 2016

EXIAR and Sberbank help lumber exports to Germany

The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) and the country's Sberbank have agreed to a working capital financing insurance policy. EXIAR...

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25 January 2016

MUFG hires Azim Walli amid trade finance push

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has hired Azim Walli as head of trade and supply chain finance products from ANZ in Singapore. Three other people...

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25 January 2016

BTMU opens Colombo office to boost Sri Lanka trade

Japan's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTMU) - the banking arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group - has opened an office in Colombo in a bid to encourage investment and...

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25 January 2016

Indonesia wants $1bn AIIB funding for 4 projects

The Indonesian government has listed four projects to submit this year for a $1 billion loan from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). The projects include...

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25 January 2016

Isbank goes live with Surecomp's trade finance system

Germany-based Isbank, the European arm of Turkish bank Turkiye Is Bankasi, has gone live with Surecomp's DOKA 5 trade finance system. The system "simplifies...

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25 January 2016

Commodity finance: protecting rights of lender over borrower's insurance

Global law firm Reed Smith has issued a briefing on the features - as well as some pitfalls - associated with four types of insurance interest that might be obtained...

Perspective
22 January 2016

EDC signs first Turkish loan guarantee

Canada's export credit agency Export Development Canada (EDC) has provided its first guarantee for a loan from international banks to a Turkish corporate last month.

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22 January 2016

US to allow multilateral development bank loans to Argentina

The US is scrapping its policy of opposing most lending to Argentina from multilateral development banks. The policy had been in place since 2011 as part of a US...

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22 January 2016

Graham Crozier appointed Coface chief executive in Australia

Credit insurer Coface has appointed Graham Crozier as chief executive of its branch in Australia. He replaces Paul McGahen, who is retiring.

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22 January 2016

ANZ's international lending head Andrew Geczy is quitting

Andrew Geczy, the head of international and institutional lending business at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) will leave at the end of January. He is...