Last year, the Berne Union provided an update on how its members have worked with small and medium-sized exporters (SMEs) given their important roles in supporting...

Annual business volumes of many insurers and banks are more often than not driven by project finance and large corporate loan transactions. However, when looking at the...

China Merchants Bank (CMB) and Deutsche Bank have signed an agreement under which CMB will obtain a full range of global banking services, including cash management and...

Finland’s Export Guarantee Act was amended in September 2014 to enable export credit agency (ECA) Finnvera to grant guarantees also to large companies in Finland for...

Sinosure's chairman, Wang Yi, describes how the world’s largest ECA has changed both procedures and structure as it undergoes rapid growth.

The UK government aims to help make London the leading centre for offshore renminbi (RMB) business outside China, not least because the currency has now overtaken the...

Asia is the world’s workshop and it has also emerged as the engine of growth in global trade, eclipsing Europe. Asia is now the centre of global expansion, driving trade...

Although notable changes have been witnessed across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the past few decades, the region has undeniably transformed as of...

The commodity driven growth in Africa has generated a demand for stronger banks with more capacity. As commodity prices are falling and currencies weakening, African...

Following the international trend in the creation of export credit agencies (ECAs) after World War II, South Africa began to offer official support for export...

Military refuse, abandoned railroad networks, vehicles, mining equipment: What to do with the remnants of civil war? In Angola, a company insured by MIGA is turning them...

With 96% of its rural population living without electricity, Zambia is in great need for transmission and distribution lines to reach new regions and villages. In this...

The North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) came into effect on 1 January 1994, and with it arrived a fundamental structural change. In fact, Mexico embraced an...

Prices for crude oil and other commodities have been on the decline since last year, as increased production by key producers and weak global demand has left the market...

Over the past four years the global level of risk has been relatively stable, notwithstanding differences between the advanced economies and the emerging markets: the...

Local currency finance is often viewed as exotic and difficult to execute but, with care, offshore guarantors can enable financing better suited to local borrowers....

Maxence Mormède, chief investment officer (CIO) advanced fixed income* at Allianz Global Investors explains the approach taken in assessing and analysing claims and...

KeyBank of the USA has contracted BNY Mellon to provide private label trade processing services to KeyBank’s global trade group. The arrangement will see KeyBank...

While whole turn-over credit insurers are accustomed to dealing with seven to 10-year economic cycles in their core OECD market, and to dealing with thousands of small...

The world continues to present insurers with lots of challenges. The global financial crisis hit insurers hard and we are still making strong recoveries. In the old...