JB's weekly round up - 15 May 2015
Next week is the start of a hectic period for TXF. We launch the inaugural “TXF Chronicle”, our latest industry special report. We’ll also be joined by 200 of the...
Next week is the start of a hectic period for TXF. We launch the inaugural “TXF Chronicle”, our latest industry special report. We’ll also be joined by 200 of the...
When two prominent MPs (members of parliament) had to announce they would step down before the recent election after being caught on camera discussing taking cash for...
FIMBank has appointed Ronald Haverkorn as its new chief risk officer. The appointment comes following the bank’s financial results for 2014 report earlier this year in...
In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Scott Scherer, Boeing’s head of regulatory strategy, has said that the aerospace and defence group would consider taking...
The United Kingdom’s (UK) export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), has set-up an innovative, new online and interactive guide to help credit insurance brokers work...
Working capital solutions provider Demica has appointed Tim Davies to the newly created role of head of origination, Europe. He will report directly to Demica’s chief...
HSBC has appointed Tan Siew Meng the newly created role of regional head global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) Asia-Pacific, with effect from 1 July 2015. This is a...
Italian export credit agency (ECA) SACE has signed a technical cooperation agreement to increase the capacity of the Iranian ECA, Export Guarantee Fund of Iran (EGFI).
India’s Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has signed a $750 million loan backed by Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-sure). This...
Spanish bank BBVA has appointed Francisco Javier Fernández de Trocóniz as its new head of global trade finance & international financial institutions, replacing the...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) honoured the most successful participants in its Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) 2014 in an award ceremony...
Russian state corporation Vnesheconombank (VEB) has increased business with Chinese institutions by signing a $8 billion framework credit agreement with China Development...
Trade credit insurer Euler Hermes has appointed three regional chief executive officers (CEO) to its German, Austrian, Swiss (DACH), World Agency and French offices, and...
HSH Nordbank has today signed a cooperation agreement with the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) and Busan, Korea's second-largest city after the capital Seoul, which...
During the recent TXF Washington conference, a group of ECAs, multilateral institutions, lenders, insurers, and exporters got together to discuss how to design the...
The Italian export credit agency, SACE, and China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure), have today signed a reinsurance agreement aimed at facilitating the...
UniCredit announced today that it has combined its global capital markets and loan syndication businesses to create a new global syndicate and capital markets platform to...
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has announced four major financing initiatives increasing Russia’s trade and economic cooperation with China. The development of...
Following a global tender, essDOCS, a leading enabler of paperless trade, has has won the contract to develop and deliver a document preparation (Doc Prep) solution for...
A special report from TXF Data presenting an overview of key commodities market transactions.