Deutsche Bank has appointed Sandra Hack as Global Head of Structured Commodity Trade Finance. Hack takes over from John MacNamara, who set up the original desk in...

General Electric (GE) has appointed Brenda Mbathi as chief executive officer (CEO) for East Africa. Based in Nairobi, Mbathi will lead the development of public and...

Chicago-headquartered Archer Daniels Midland has announced two strategic additions to its Board of Directors.Dr. Lei Zhang Schlitz has been nominated to stand for...

Commodity trader and miner Glencore has hired Daniel Liu, a former Singapore-based trading manager at Goldman Sachs, to join its derivatives desk in Singapore, according...

Daniel Loschacoff  has been appointed Head of Commercial Advisory Canada for international consultancy group Steer.Prior to joining Steer, Loschacoff was a founder...

US President Donald Trump's trade war with China has roiled agricultural markets and given the world's top grain merchants the one thing they have long claimed...

BayWa r.e. is growing its renewables business in Spain and Portugal ahead of the opening of a new office in Madrid. The company has appointed Tomas Garcia as Managing...

Gunvor Group has appointed two new global co-heads of its liquefied natural gas trading division.Kalpesh Patel, based in Singapore, and Ksenia Alleyne, based in Geneva,...

Holland & Knight has appointed the Latin American-focused finance, project finance and capital markets lawyer Peter Baumgaertner as a partner in its New York office....

In late 2018 HSBC structured a multi-jurisdictional import financing that inaugurated a rare joint venture between ADMC and Cargill in the Egyptian soybean sector.

With further US sanctions looming over Russia, and uncertainty over what form they will take, a backlog of commodity-linked deals is growing. But Russian borrowers and...

Chicago-headquartered Archer Daniels Midland Company has completed its €1.544 billion acquisition of Neovia, creating a global leader in value-added products and...

TradeIX has announced new appointments in its offices in Dublin, London and Singapore. The company has appointed Geoff Ryan as Chief Financial Officer, Tawfique Hamid as...

Many Russian pre-export finance (PXF) borrowers pulled off another year-on-year reduction in margins in 2018. And with no obvious tightening of local liquidity, and too...

The TXF podcast team revisit the predictions they made at the start of last year, look at who was right and who was a little “ahead of their time”, and discuss the...

US grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland has looked at buying rivals, including Bunge and dozens of other companies, but decided the time is not right for...

Chicago-based Archer Daniels Midland Company has reached an agreement to acquire Florida Chemical Company (FCC), a division of Flotek Industries specialising in...

Alternative small business lending platform CAN Capital has announced that Edward Siciliano has been appointed as the new chief executive officer. The...

With a new renewable energy support scheme in place and a stabilising regulatory environment, the Greek renewables sector has begun attracting international lender and...

Shinhan Capital’s recent redemptions and BAF Capital’s winding down of BLTFF have focused attention on inefficiencies in the trade finance fund market. The extent of the...