The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) has agreed to provide a ship bond guarantee to help ship financing to a local shipping company - Sinokor Petrochemical. This is...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has appointed Charles J ‘CJ’ Hall as executive vice president and chief risk officer. He has 35 years of...

French-headquartered development finance institution Proparco has signed a $50 million loan with the pan-Aafrican banking group Ecobank. The loan was signed with...

French bank Natixis is expanding its presence in Asia-Pacific with two new hires for its regional banking platform within trade and treasury. Yuri Lin has been appointed...

Standard Chartered Bank (StandChart) and Agricultural Bank of China Limited (AgBC) have signed an agreement to collaborate to provide renminbi (RMB) clearing services in...

Last week, TXF held its first Short-Term Trade & Supply Chain Finance event in Munich – and a humdinger of an event it was too. I learned masses of stuff - and I’m sure...

A consortium led by ACWA Power International has signed the financing agreements for the 2060MW Rabigh 2 independent power project (R2IPP) power project in Saudi Arabia.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has launched new transaction service capabilities for clients doing business in Brazil. The products are designed to help companies...

View pictures from the recent Short-term Trade and Supply Chain Finance in 2013 conference in Munich

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Enel Green Power International, the financial and controlling holding company of international subsidiaries of the Enel Green Power...

Development finance institutions (DFIs) have teamed to provide financing support amounting to $220 million for the first large-scale renewable energy IPP in Jordan, the...

Indonesian state-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Pelindo III) has secured export credit agency-backed financing for the purchase of shipyard cranes from...

In a recent poll taken at the TXF Short-Term Trade and Supply Chain Finance conference in Munich, participants were most excited by automation in the sector, saw BPO as...

Structured commodity financier Gilles Sayer has joined Essar as managing director of Peak Trading Overseas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Essar Global Fund. In this...

Italian export credit agency (ECA) and insurance and financial group Sace, has opened a representative office in Mexico City. The ECA says that the move comes about due...

Russian mining and metals company Mechel, has received the first tranche of the project financing for the Elga Coal Complex’s first stage of development. The company is...

Standard Chartered (StanChart) has structured and closed a S$45 million ($35.8 million) senior debt facility for United Envirotech Water (Changyi) Company (UE Water) to...

Russia’s Inter RAO group is to receive funds from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to construct a gas-fired power station in Russia’s...

Apologies for the late mailing of the Weekly News – TXF was somewhat tied up with its Short-Term Trade & Supply Trade Conference in Munich for the first part of this...

Bolero International and China Systems, a leading trade services solutions vendor, have established a strategic partnership designed to assist clients involved in trade...