At a time when digitisation, regulation and new liquidity are on the rise, Hesham Zakai explores how these factors are changing the trade-finance landscape.
Jonathan Bell talks with David Hennah, head of trade and supply chain finance, transaction banking, Misys, about the burning issues of regulation and compliance,...
TXF’s Hesham Zakai ventures into the brave – but not so new – world of supply chain finance vendors and their respective offerings.
As the Fed prepares to make an announcement on US interest rates this week, spare a thought for the interests of US exporters. Already hit by the withdrawal of support...
In little under a week, thousands of treasures and finance professionals will descend on Copenhagen for EuroFinance's 24th International Cash & Treasury...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a loan of up to €40 million ($45 million) to Raiffeisen Factoring. The loan will allow the...
Charles Berry, chairman of specialist insurance broker BPL Global, argues that as exporters and banks now often have a choice between ECA and private-sector cover, ECAs...
CC Solutions' Valerie Colville discusses how the US export credit agency’s charter came to expire on 30 June, what is likely to come next, and what can be done to bring...
Shell, the global energy and petrochemicals company, has selected Citi’s treasury and trade solutions (TTS) division as its sole bank provider for cash management...
Olivier Delay has been appointed global head of aviation, export & infrastructure finance at Natixis. He is based in Paris and reports to Pierre Debray, global head of...
AFEX, one of the world's largest non-bank providers of global payment and risk management solutions, has made Tony Rea its EMEA sales director. Rea - a former...
The African Export-Import Bank is set to inaugurate its headquarters building and conduct the investiture of its new president, Dr Benedict Oramah, on September...
Finacity today announced it had facilitated the MXN$300million inaugural consumer loan securitization program of Dimex Capital. It will also serve as the ongoing...
Glencore has announced that the company behind the Katanga mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo will suspend production at the site for 18 months. The...
Finacity revealed today that it has successfully facilitated the addition of an Asian originator to an existing trade receivables securitisation for The Manitowoc...
Tartaruga MV29 (TARMV29), a company incorporated in the Netherlands in which MODEC, Mitsui & Co, Mitsui OSK Lines, and Marubeni Corporation have equity stakes, has signed...
A funding crisis is developing in the commodities market as producers and traders, particularly of the small and mid-sized variety, struggle to access the type and volume...
The Italian export credit company SACE and Turkish bank Yapı Kredi have signed a cooperation agreement designed to bolster and strengthen the platform for export...
The Swiss-headquartered Russian agrichemical EuroChem Group AG has signed a $750 million pre-export finance facility with a club of leading international banks. The funds...
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) group, has signed a $3 billion framework agreement with the...
Cameroon recently signed an ECA-backed loan for a strategic national road project. The deal has provided a financial blueprint for SME exporters to get involved in future such deals in the country - if they are willing to shoulder complex and lengthy deal timelines.
Every article should have a call to action in the 'standfirst'. It's particularly tough to do that on an obituary for a much loved friend and colleague. Thanks to all those who joined us at Sean's alma mater London watering hole, the Cockpit, to raise a glass in his memory. For those who missed it, please do continue to read about him.
The latest Angolan Ministry of Finance ECA-backed loan to sign to fund the construction of an airport marks the country's ninth such sovereign deal this year, with Angola now accounting for nearly half of Africa's total deal volume.
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