The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has seen a rise in demand ahead of next year's elections in Kenya, East Africa's biggest economy. Chief executive...

Edward Dougherty has joined law firm Herbert Smith Freehills' New York office as a partner, focusing on trade finance, project finance and syndicated lending in...

Italian export credit agency SACE and two banks have agreed an €800,000 line of credit to Turin-based Osai Automation System to help the company grow in North...

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is set to open an office in Monaco. It will be headed by Dimitri Sofianopoulos and primarily service the firm's shipping and...

Petrobras, Brazil's state-run oil group, has reported losses of $4.8 billion for the third quarter of its financial year. Analysts had been expecting the company,...

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is in talks with Russian oil giant Gazprom over a possible deal to finance the expansion of the Sakhalin-2...

Egyptian Natural Gas Holding's (EGAS) buy tender for 2017/2018 could attract the attention of the likes of Glencore, Trafigura, Vitol and Gunvor, who are...

The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim) has agreed an $18 million loan to Guyana, which will use the money to buy a new, safer coastal ferry for a...

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ten members of the Asian Exim Banks Forum, including the...

HSBC and Reliance Industries have completed a landmark transfer in India. The transaction replaced a physical letter of credit with electronic documents through a...

Export credit agencies (ECAs) played a key role in stabilising and preventing a complete drying up of the trade finance market following the financial crisis of 2007. Max...

There is little doubt about the stabilising function of Export Credit Agency-backed export finance for exports during crisis times as the post-2008 renaissance...

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Mubadala Development Company (Mubadala) and other investment funds have confirmed plans for their interest in two potential...

BayernLB and Standard Chartered Bank have entered into a strategic cooperation in trade finance in Asia, creating new opportunities for German corporates to execute...

South Korea's two main policy lenders, Korea Development Bank and the Export-Import Bank of Korea, today announced plans to provide Daewoo Shipbuilding &...

Nordea has announced capabilities to handle the SWIFT MT798 messaging in a fully automated manner. MT798 is SWIFT initiative that facilitates Corporate to Bank (C2B)...

The global shortage of available trade financing poses a huge risk to economic development and international trade; however, new technologies are disrupting old-school...

Donald Trump’s stunning, upset victory Tuesday over Hillary Clinton for the presidency of the United States sent shockwaves around the world and hiked...

The parties have identified the following priority investment areas: energy and energy efficiency; transport, industrial and energy infrastructure; and cross-border...

European banks already tormented by low interest rates and economic uncertainty face new anxieties from US President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory,...