Deutsche Bank has arranged a $1.5 billion pre-payment loan for China’s Tangshan Iron & Steel Group (Tangsteel), in a transaction which is the largest structured commodity...

Alpha Bank of Greece has successfully completed a major shipping securitisation transaction. The transaction is the first of its kind for many years from a Greek...

Citi has structured an export credit agency-backed financing package for the construction of electric power transmission projects in the south of Vietnam.

Russia’s Sovcomflot (SCF Group) has secured a new credit facility with European banks, providing the shipping company with vital funds and a healthy 10-year tenor.

The investigation into falsified warehouse receipts, the warehouse lock-down and fraud investigation against Decheng Mining (and others) in the Chinese port of Qingdao...

Scorpio Bulkers announced today that it has signed provisional agreements with ABN AMRO Bank and The Export-Import Bank of China (Cexim) in respect of a loan facility of...

Trade credit insurer, Atradius has released its report on the payment practices and behaviour of businesses in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

Barclays has appointed Nick Littleford and Paul Woodward as co-heads of large corporate sales finance organisation, UK and Ireland, within the trade and working capital...

Gunvor Group has finally closed a $1.09 billion revolving credit facility (RCF) in favour of Gunvor International and Gunvor SA acting as the borrowers. The facility was...

UniCredit is providing the Italian producer of automotive components, IMR Automotive (IMR), with a €2 million ($2.46 million) loan, which is insured by Italian export...

Ethiopian Airlines has closed a 12-year, $100 million loan from Bahrain’s Islamic investment bank, Ibdar Bank, and Canada’s export credit agency (ECA), Export Development...

The London-based specialist insurer, Beazley Group (Beazley), has announced it will open an office in the Dubai Financial Centre (DIFC) to underwrite political risk,...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has closed a two-year, $250 million term loan facility with a club of predominantly Middle Eastern banks.

An international and local bank syndicate has signed a major loan with the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) – the country’s national oil company, designed to...

Sekerbank has become the first issuing bank under the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD’s) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) in Turkey.

The Turkish subsidiary of the independent Saudi Arabian power project developer, ACWA Power, has raised more than half of the funds for its $1 billion combined-cycle gas...

Sorry we are a bit late, but TXF has been hitting the road hard over the past few weeks. We have mostly been in Asia, where we hosted our 200 person meeting of the ECA...

KfW IPEX-Bank has signed an agreement to finance the construction of 10 new river cruise ships for Viking River Cruises (VRC), the world's leading river cruise company.

The global merchandiser of commodities, Louis Dreyfus Commodities (Louis Dreyfus), has appointed Mayo Schmidt as its new CEO. The decision will take effect from 5 January...

The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) has signed a 20-year, €34.8 million ($43.35 million) loan agreement with Klaipedos Nafta, the majority state-owned Lithuanian oil and gas...