Oliver Gordon catches up with some leading figures to discuss whether trade finance is still being unfairly penalised under the Basel III framework.

The global economy faces a rising tide of protectionism, economic populism and resource nationalism that threatens its recovery and trade liberalisation, the chief of...

General Electric will move about 500 US jobs overseas to avoid losing business to foreign rivals, a decision the company said was prompted by the lapse of the US...

Oil trader Trafigura upped its stake in Belgium miner Nyrstar to 20.02% on 2 September through its subsidiary Urion Holdings. The latest purchase comes just shy of a...

Turkish lender Isbank secured a syndicated loan in two tranches of €796.5 million ($899.49 million) and $281 million, with a maturity of 367 days, the bank said...

Adding a new dimension to the policy support being given to project exporters by way of buyer’s credit, the Indian cabinet on Wednesday approved a scheme that...

ING Americas today announced the appointment of Bill James and Pieter Puijpe as co-heads of Structured Finance Americas, taking over from Chuck O'Neil who retired...

Russell Stokes, a self-described train guy, will depart GE Transportation on 1 October, two years to the day after he became the company's chief executive. Stokes,...

Türkiye İş Bankası (İşbank) has secured a $1.2 billion syndicated loan from a total of 42 banks from 20 countries. The proceeds of the loan will be used by the borrower...

At a time when digitisation, regulation and new liquidity are on the rise, Hesham Zakai explores how these factors are changing the trade-finance landscape.

Jonathan Bell talks with David Hennah, head of trade and supply chain finance, transaction banking, Misys, about the burning issues of regulation and compliance,...

TXF’s Hesham Zakai ventures into the brave – but not so new – world of supply chain finance vendors and their respective offerings.

As the Fed prepares to make an announcement on US interest rates this week, spare a thought for the interests of US exporters. Already hit by the withdrawal of support...

In little under a week, thousands of treasures and finance professionals will descend on Copenhagen for EuroFinance's 24th International Cash & Treasury...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a loan of up to €40 million ($45 million) to Raiffeisen Factoring. The loan will allow the...

Charles Berry, chairman of specialist insurance broker BPL Global, argues that as exporters and banks now often have a choice between ECA and private-sector cover, ECAs...

CC Solutions' Valerie Colville discusses how the US export credit agency’s charter came to expire on 30 June, what is likely to come next, and what can be done to bring...

Shell, the global energy and petrochemicals company, has selected Citi’s treasury and trade solutions (TTS) division as its sole bank provider for cash management...

Olivier Delay has been appointed global head of aviation, export & infrastructure finance at Natixis. He is based in Paris and reports to Pierre Debray, global head of...

AFEX, one of the world's largest non-bank providers of global payment and risk management solutions, has made Tony Rea its EMEA sales director. Rea - a former...