The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation (Finnfund) have signed a ten-year loan totalling $40 million (€36 million) for...

General syndication has been launched today for a $125 million term loan for United Arab Bank (UAB). The facility will be used by UAB for general corporate purposes,...

London Forfaiting Company (LFC) has joined the UK Export Finance (UKEF) bond support scheme. The scheme helps UK firms access government support for export-related bonds.

Global trade growth built up expectations with a healthy recovery following the crisis, but it has since relapsed to a snail-like pace of advancement. Despite their...

Transport has wrestled energy off its throne as the leading sector for export finance in the first half of 2015 – TXF’s H1 Export Finance Report revealed this week.

Deutsche Bank has closed a €300 million ($334 million) borrowing base facility for the German metal production company VDM Metals Group (VDM). Acting as the coordinating...

Bank of Georgia has closed a $30 million, one-year trade finance club facility with Citi. This is the second club facility arranged by Citi for Bank of Georgia. The club...

More than 80 years after its founding, the Export-Import Bank of the United States may be on the verge of shutting down. For those wondering what might happen should...

Glencore is set to add more blows to dwindling investor confidence when it delivers a disappointing set of results on Wednesday. The mining and commodity giant’s...

One of America’s most influential activist investors has secretly amassed a stake in FTSE 100 mining giant Glencore as it attempts to wrestle with the dramatic...

A Korean consortium's 6 trillion won ($5 billion) project to build a coal-fired power plant in Kazakhstan may be derailed due to the Kazakh government's lack...

Olam International, the Singapore commodity trader controlled by the city’s state investment company, has tripled it second-quarter profit as earnings from its...

HSBC has facilitated cross-border renminbi (RMB) loans for mainland China corporates operating from the Nansha Free Trade Zone (FTZ) and Kunshan, areas that are now...

ABN AMRO has appointed Robbert Booij as the new country executive for the United Kingdom and general manager of ABN AMRO Bank UK branch.

Kazakhstan-focused copper production company KAZ Minerals has signed a new $50 million revolving credit facility (RCF) with Caterpillar Financial Services (UK) (Cat...

Export finance volumes in the first half of 2015 have tumbled by 28% year-on-year, and by 35% compared to the second half of last year, TXF’s H1 Export Finance Report...

If you love international trade, then you surely must love ships. I certainly do. And maybe that’s not surprising as I was born in Sunderland – a town that many years ago...

According to a new research report from East & Partners Asia (E&P Asia), international and regional banks have a major opportunity to exploit the trade finance needs of...

Turkey’s Akbank has signed the accordion option of its $275 million three-year term loan facility that it originally agreed to in early July. The addition of the...

PGNiG Upstream International (PUI), a subsidiary of Polish oil and gas group PGNiG, has signed a $400 million credit facility agreement with eight international banks....