The Development Bank of Japan led a group of seven financial institutions in agreeing a $120 million loan to US-headquartered aircraft leasing company Aircastle.
The Korea Development Bank (KDB) and Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) are to be recapitalised by the government to boost its corporate restructuring processes in...
CC Solutions examines the differences in all-in costs of debt from export credit agency (ECA) and commercial sources.
The Inter-American Development Bank has launched a new version of INTrade, an information system about trade and integration in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing £1 billion for new social housing investment across the UK in partnership with the Housing Finance Corporation....
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed a $25 million trade finance credit facility to Central Africa Building Society (CABS) of Zimbabwe. It will allow CABS to...
Johannesburg-based mezzanine fund manager Vantage Capital has provided a R80 million debenture facility to Namibian property group United Africa Group. It will be used...
Commodities group Olam International is expanding its grains trading in Switzerland after hiring executive Carl Desjardins from Grupo BTG Pactual. He will lead the...
Bermuda-based Everest Re Group is growing its insurance platform with the launch of a new credit and political risk business unit. Jim Thomas has been hired from...
In burgeoning market for renewable energy in Latin America, last year’s $306 million San Juan project promises to be Chile’s largest wind farm when complete.
Last year’s pioneering deal from HSBC and UKEF to sign the first ever renminbi financing of an aircraft purchase is TXF’s best ECA Aircraft Financing Deal of the...
The Royal United Services Institute is teaming up with PricewaterhouseCoopers on a study about how effective compliance rules and regulations for the UK's...
Tata's beleaguered UK steel plants have been dealt another blow after Euler Hermes pulled out of covering the group's business in Europe - leaving suppliers...
InterOil, a Singapore-based oil and gas group, has agreed a $400 million senior secured capital expenditure facility arranged by Australia and New Zealand Banking...
Development banks look set to give the green bond boom in China a further boost. The mainland needs at least 2 trillion yuan a year to fund eco projects - and the...
Global law firm Ince & Co has announced the partner promotion of Pavlo Samothrakis in its Dubai office. He has been with Ince & Co since 2006 and moved to the...
The European renewables sector's short-term financing needs should be able to be met by private placements and the banking market, according to research by...
America has assured European and Asian banks that they are free to do business with Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry downplayed fears that the banks could fall foul...
Airbus Group's new factory in Mobile, Alabama, will open the company up to an unlikely source of financing: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US...
Netherlands-based grain trader Nidera has appointed Dierk Overheu as chief executive officer (CEO). He will replace Ton van der Laan, who is retiring.
Welcome to Exiled: The Real Assets People, a podcast where we ‘strand’ a guest on a desert island and ask them who from their professional past, present, and future they’d choose to be stranded with. After all, it’s people that make a profession. Our first guest is Catherine Lang Anderson, Partner & Head of Trade & Commodity Finance Practice at A&O Shearman. Recorded live from the Royal Academy of Arts, it will be no surprise to anyone who knows Catherine that her Exile is going to be a party!
Commodity traders reaped substantial profits off the back of market volatility in 2022 and 2023. With their war chests armed, they pursued a policy of diversification – across financing, business lines and investments.
The trade finance industry has suffered a trio of ailments since the end of 2024 with the shuttering of three different non-bank lenders. While the circumstances across the three cases vary, market conditions are posing problems for lenders of all sizes. How can the community reflect on these events, and what options are borrowers left with?
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