Toby Orr has been named as director of communications at the UK government's Department for International Trade. He said he would work to "devise an ambitious...

Louis Dreyfus, the Amsterdam-headquartered commodity trader, has announced a successful €400 million, five-year, senior bond transaction. BNP Paribas, Credit...

Royal Dutch Shell has sold fields in the North Sea and Thailand in a $4.7 billion move to reduce debt. The divestments include the sale of about half of its North Sea oil...

Swiss-based commodity giant Glencore has leapfrogged rival Trafigura to become the largest buyer of Russian Urals oil from Rosneft. Glencore last month bought a 19.5%...

The Export-Import Bank of Thailand (Thailand Exim) has announced six key strategies to implement its ten-year enterprise plan. They include expanding the export credit...

The Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) has agreed to help finance a natural gas-fired thermal power generation project in New York through the project's operating...

Global trade credit insurer Coface has upgraded Bulgaria's risk rating from B to A4. The rise is because of "moderate growth and the continued consolidation of...

With a smaller-than-expected commercial bank tranche, the $1.05 billion partially ECA-backed debt package for the Fadhili CHP project demonstrates some of the collateral...

WIth the costs associated with tighter bank regulation dampening the appetite of banks for SME business, and non-bank providers charging heavy margins, the beginnings of...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has appointed Marie-Alexandra Veilleux-Laborie as its new director for Morocco. She will be based in Casablanca and...

The Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim) has been advised by Scottish law firm MacRoberts on its $1.89 billion loan to China National Agrochemical Corporation to buy...

The Qatar International Islamic Bank (QIIB) has chosen fintech group Misys' FusionBanking Essence Islamic solution in conjunction with FusionBanking Party Management...

Metalloinvest, the Russian metals producer, has revealed its operational results for the final quarter of 2016 - reaching all-time high results in iron ore, pellets,...

US-headquartered commodity group Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is set to sell its Crop Risk Services business to Bermuda-based Validus Holdings in a $127.5 million deal....

Amsterdam-headquartered commodity trader Louis Dreyfus looks set to test investor appetite for riskier debt this week, after its previous plans were thwarted by torrid...

Janet Heckman has been appointed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) new managing director for the southern and eastern Mediterranean...

For a producer, access to financing can result in the firm’s life or death. Financing comes in different shapes and forms depending on the company’s risk profile. Here,...

International development banks have increased their operations in Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) nations by extending $4.4 billion in financing in the final...

On 15 January Acwa Power completed its first drawdown from its $370 million 19-year partially MIGA-covered financing for the construction of the 485MW Al Zarqa...

France's Engie has been awarded the contract for a $1.2 billion project to build a combined-cycle gas power plant in Saudi Arabia. The Export-Import Bank of Korea and...