Equinox Global, the Lloyd's cover holder specialising in trade credit insurance, has hired Maurice Stolk as credit analyst. Stolk, formerly of Atradius, will be...

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has agreed a buyer's credit loan with Bangladesh Power Development Board to support the export of facilities...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has revealed tentative plans to raise the value of loans to Egypt to $1.5 billion in 2016. It will focus on...

Japan's Mizuho Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) have arranged what is believed to be the country's biggest ever project finance deal - a...

Vitol, the Swiss-based commodity trader, has reportedly sold all its Russian assets. The assets - a number of mine deposits - were bought last year by Swedish oil and...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme is backing international trade with a facility to the National Bank of...

Swiss-based commodity trader Glencore remains optimistic on the outlook for a coal turnaround despite a global slump and a huge drop in the company's profits....

The Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Trade Finance Programme has signed deals with two Vietnamese banks to provide guarantees of up to $100 million a year to support...

Petrobras, Brazil's state-run oil company, has secured a $10 billion credit line from the China Development Bank (CBD) in exchange for supplying oil to groups in...

The Vitol Group and Sargeant Marine have launched a new asphalt trading venture, Valt. It will have volumes of about 1.3 million metric tonnes of asphalt per annum,...

Coface, the French export credit agency (ECA), was the single most active ECA in 2015 for medium and long-term debt supporting a total of $7.73 billion worth of...

Egypt's $1.49 billion December loan, backed by export credit agencies (ECAs), to build the Beni Suef power station – is just the latest example of the country's continued...

Argentina has struck a $4.65 billion agreement with US creditors to end a 15-year debt row. The country's default on $82 billion foreign debt in 2001 set off a...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has sealed a $100 million loan agreement with Sri Lanka to strengthen small and medium-sized enterprises' (SMEs) access to...

Glencore, the Swiss-based commodity giant, has reported a 69% drop in annual profits. Its net income excluding significant items fell to $1.34 billion last year, from...

ClearlySo, a UK-based impact investment intermediary, has taken on Matthew Vickerstaff as head of investment banking. He previously worked at Societe Generale, where...

Mongolia is hoping to secure a $1.3 billion loan from the Export-Import Bank of China (China Ex-Im) to complete a railway connecting its Tavan Tolgoi coal deposit with...

Jean-Pierre Valentini, Trafigura Pte's general manager for Africa, is leaving the commodity trader in the latest in a series of senior departures. Roald Goethe has...

Singapore-based commodity trader Olam International has posted a net loss of S$221.3 million for the three months ending in December 2015. The group made a net profit...

Bibby Financial Services has appointed Sam Cirelli as senior vice president, business development, to drive new business for the company's asset-based lending...