Singapore-based commodity trader Olam has teamed up with Mitsubishi Corporation to form MC Agri Alliance, in Japan. It will import and distribute cocoa, coffee,...

Hesham Zakai, TXF Media’s content manager, picks his favourite trade and supply chain finance stories from 2015.

Sweden's export credit agency EKN has named Tomas Duffy the new director of its large corporates business area. Taking up the position on 1 December, Duffy has...

Pricing strategies, competition and the best and worst of supply chain finance. Tom Dunn, chairman of Orbian, reveals all to TXF's Ollie Gordon.

Kenya’s plans to buy electricity from Ethiopia have reached a critical stage, with the expected signing of a $231 million agreement to start construction of...

A new report released by BNY Mellon explores the influence of fintech alliances on global payments, and suggest that these changes taking place in the payments space...

Banks, rather than “thinly-capitalised” fintech providers, are still best placed to provide supply chain finance (SCF) programmes to corporate buyers, Citi’s EMEA supply...

Satellite Industry Association President Tom Stroup has urged US Congress to re-authorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He said the country had missed out...

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.

CIT Group, a leading transportation finance company, has today announced that CIT Maritime Finance has arranged a $32 million senior secured credit facility to Norstar...

US-headquartered, Castleton Commodities International (CCI) has closed two committed credit facilities totalling $3.75 billion. The funds will be used for general...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) has appointed Dr Benedict Oramah to be the next president of the continental multilateral trade finance institution. He will take...

In a heartfelt and enlightening opening speech at the annual US Export-Import Bank meeting, chairman Fred Hochberg spelled out how vital the bank is to compete in an...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has launched a new framework which will provide leasing finance for investments targeted at improving the...

Emirates, the Dubai-based airline, is set to wrap up its much-anticipated sukuk guaranteed by British export credit agency (ECA) UK Export Finance (UKEF), after...

Dubai-based airline Emirates has set the initial price guidance on its mooted $913 million sukuk – Islamic bond – guaranteed by the British export credit agency UK Export...

The French electrical systems provider, Thales Group, has been awarded a contract by the State of Qatar to secure its new commercial port, New Port Project – soon to be...

Italian export credit agency (ECA), SACE, has announced that it will underwrite a bond to be issued by De Cecco, an Italian firm specialised in the production of pasta,...

Russia’s VTB Bank is reporting a big increase in its trade and export finance portfolio for 2014, despite the trade sanctions imposed by the US and the EU.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) today announced a new slate of members for its advisory committee for fiscal 2015.