Coface’s support in the space sector experienced dramatic growth in 2008 – linked to the financial crisis – and since then there has been a steady stream of business....
The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), the insurance arm of the AAA rated Islamic Development Bank Group (IDB) based in...
Within the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, it was only on the back of the international financial crisis in 2008 that a strong awareness was created for trade...
Africa 80 years ago was a much different place. In fact, when the Berne Union was launched, Africa was largely under colonial rule. A few decades later, with independence...
The role of international trade and its impact on the global economy has been revisited anew since the global economic crisis. This article examines the impact of...
Since the establishment of the Berne Union in 1934 – with the aim of facilitating cross- border trade, by establishing common export credit principles – the role of...
At the US Ex-Im conference in Washington DC, Team TXF got delegates to pen their song choices on the TXF Wall of Sound. Here are the results...
Russian fertiliser producer Acron Group has arranged a six month $400 million bridge term loan facility via a club of relationship banks.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed an unfunded €40 million ($54.8 million) risk participation agreement (RPA) with BNP Paribas (BNPP) to support the trade...
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has recruited James Burdett as its group’s new chief financial officer (CFO). Burdett joins the Emirates bank from Australia and New...
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed an agreement with commercial banks to move towards Indonesian rupiah financing for Japanese-affiliated...
UK Export Finance (UKEF), the export credit agency (ECA) of the United Kingdom has today officially launched its £5 billion ($6.86 billion) export refinancing facility...
HSBC Bank has arranged a €500 million ($685.2 million) with the Development Bank of Kazakhstan (DBK) under a framework agreement to facilitate long-term export credit...
Five leading business associations have joined forces with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking Commission to undertake a major project to standardise and...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States US Ex-Im has appointed the 11 members to its 2014 sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee.
Perth, Australia headquartered oil exploration company Tap Oil has signed a borrowing base debt facility with BNP Paribas (BNPP) for up to $90 million, primarily to fund...
The LME aluminium price has certainly not been encouraging. In this negative climate, what Rusal has managed to achieve through production cuts, how the company is...
Jonathan Bell talks with Andrew Voysey, director, finance sector platforms, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), about the Banking...
Jonathan Bell presents a case study where a Vietnamese commodity trader – VinaCommodities – secured a bespoke cross-border financing solution that allowed the company to...
China has, and continues to be the leading light as the global end-user of raw commodities. It is the key player. Now in the agri sector China is revealing the country’s...
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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