Katharine Morton ponders the opacities of financing trade, and what lies beneath, revealed at ITFA’s celebration of a mysterious dance of hide and seek

King & Spalding has announced that Jonathan Arkins has joined as a partner in the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in its New York...

Specialist insurer Markel International has appointed Jonathan Finch as senior underwriter in its surety team in London. He joins Markel from Travelers Insurance...

Latest reports indicate that the global trade finance gap stands at $1.5 trillion. Jonathan Bell reviews the scene and questions why so much more isn’t being done to...

Bibby Financial Services (BFS) has appointed Jonathon Preen as its new Global Head of Innovation to help bolster its global business offering. Preen joins BFS with...

Overall volumes of global commodity trade financing fell by almost 30% according to the TXF H1 2019 Commodity Report. Jonathan Bell reviews this drastic drop and assesses...

Glencore’s decision to temporarily mothball the world’s largest cobalt mine in the DRC raises many questions about the state of mining in the central African country....

The TXF half-year 2019 export finance report shows a bullish start to the year in the power sector, Japan’s JBIC coming in as top direct lender and the US and Australia...

Global law firm Paul Hastings has announced the addition of mergers and acquisitions partner Jonathan Kellner and capital markets partner David Flechner along with...

In a ramp up of the US-China trade wars, the US is accusing China of being a currency manipulator in order to gain trade advantages. But, asks Jonathan Bell, is this...

UK-based advisory start-up Avonhurst has appointed James Wyatt and Ian Frost as partners.Launched in London in July by former Jones Day partner Jonathan Bloom, the new...

Cofco has signed the largest loan for an agri trading company yet which is linked to sustainability elements. Jonathan Bell examines this growing trend within...

DLA Piper has appointed two new project partners in Sydney – Owen Hayford and Jonathan Stafford.Hayford joins from PwC, having established his career at Clayton...

TXF talks to Makiko Toyoda and Jessica Schnabel, the women who are spearheading the development of IFC’s latest initiative to raise access to trade finance for...

SWIFT has enhanced its global payments innovation (gpi) service for corporates, it announced today. Multi-banked corporates will now be able to initiate and track...

In the first of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about where we are now with trade...

Despite some of the legal challenges taking place in the US, financiers can be expected to remain committed to the huge volume of hydrocarbons financing which will take...

In the age of ‘clean and green’ there is a growing need to develop rail transport links globally. And on the African continent some recent rail projects show that...

The decision to maintain oil production cuts, and by so doing the market price, is a clear reflection of the impact of the US-China trade wars. Jonathan Bell assesses the...

Jonathan Yellen, head of Mizuho’s power and infrastructure project finance team in the Americas since late 2017, has departed the bank. Yellen, who has also held...