Factoring volumes are growing as supply chain finance offers low-risk financing in highly risk-averse trade finance markets, new figures from a factoring consortium show,...

Acerium is the new kid on the trade finance block but is using a traditional financial tool to deliver a fundamentally different type of transaction. Oliver...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has hired John Carroll to relaunch and lead its new UK Trade and Investment Policy programme. His role will draw on his...

India's ECGC has sealed a memorandum of understanding with the Export Guarantee Fund of Iran to increase trade and foreign investment between the two nations.

TXF's Connor Lovell speaks to Derek Halpenny, MUFG's European head of global markets research, about the certainty of uncertainty in today's risk landscape including...

Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder and chairman of India's Bharti Enterprises, has been elected chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). He has also...

Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), Australia's export credit agency, could step in with a loan to help bail out the country's struggling...

Beijing must be far bolder if the services sector is to become a more powerful and sustainable engine of economic growth and job creation, according to Donghyun Park,...

US Financial Services Committee chairman Jeb Hensarling has criticised the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) amid a Boeing trade deal with Iran. He...

Italian exports could rise at an annual rate of 3.7% over the next four years, reaching €480 billion in 2019, according to research by SACE, the country's...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Silk Road Fund have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which paves the way for joint...

At the beginning of 2016, the TXF-ICC Global Survey on Export Finance was carried out among more than 100 export financiers, ECAs, exporters and borrowers. TXF digest the...

Thibault Surer has joined French credit insurer Coface as strategy and business development director of the group. He was a partner in the mid-market buy-out fund...

Australia's ANZ bank has made Mark Evans managing director (MD) transaction banking. He is currently chief compliance officer at ANZ, having joined in 2009 as...

Japanese investment in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations region is set to rise after the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) changed its lending...

The Asian Development Bank has signed a deal under its Trade Finance Programme (TFP) with Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank to provide $20 million in guarantees a...

US-based oil and gas group Atlas Resource Partners has been left with a borrowing base deficiency of $143.7 million after the redetermined revolving credit agreement...

Alessandro Decio has been appointed chief executive officer (CEO) and general manager of Italian export credit agency SACE. He replaces outgoing CEO Alessandro...

At the current rate of progress, it will take a further 30 years for executive committees in the worldwide financial services industry to reach 30% female...

London-based Barbican Insurance has hired George Doughty as class underwriter, political and trade risks. He joins from Argo Syndicate 1200.