The US Senate has passed the sprawling America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 that authorises federal funds to modernise drinking water infrastructure and invest...

Supply chain payments group Tradeshift and credit insurer Coface have announced a new app solution on the Tradeshift platform to help businesses by boosting financial...

France’s Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) has awarded 11 large-scale solar storage project concessions following a tender for the deployment of storage capacity...

China's HNA Group and Dutch firm Plovdiv Airport Invest have retracted their bid for the 35-year concession to operate Plovdiv Airport in Bulgaria. The consortium...

International Public Partnerships Limited (INPP) is seeking to raise approximately £75 million to repay anticipated drawn facilities comprising of...

Renewables developer Amp Solar Group has closed a C$200 million ($153 million) financing led by Colorado-based ZOMA Capital, with proceeds to be...

Azerbaijan hopes to raise $1.5 billion by the end of 2018 for the Southern Gas Corridor project, the Deputy Vice-President of SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) on...

The inconvenient truth of coal prices which refuse to fall as demanded by environmental activists and some investors and governments is proving to be a rather convenient...

Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company) has signed a green revolving credit facility with four local and international banks to provide funding for new and ongoing...

Troubled commodities trader Noble Group sold its beneficial interests in an Indonesian subsidiary for a nominal US$1 in cash, with the buyer Wadash Enterprises also...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) have signed a partnership framework agreement to enhance co-financing...

Potential changes to PRA regulations, IFRS accounting standards and sovereign risk exposures, mean the trade credit insurance landscape will have to evolve. Gary Lowe,...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), supported by the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and...

Europe-focused explorer Erris Resources has appointed investment banker Anton du Plessis as CEO, succeeding Merlin Marr-Johnson, who resigned as director and elected to...

Standard Chartered went live with the SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi) service to extend its offering to customers making cross-border payments in euro or other...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has provided a grant of U$8.1 million to finance the Lobito Corridor Trade Facilitation Project to map out a strategy for its...

Petrobras has signed, on 4 October, a R$2 billion revolving credit facility with Banco do Brasil, with maturity in October 2025. Simulatiously, the oil giant has...

The acquisition facility backing Wren House’s £1.3 billion ($1.72 billion) takeover of North Sea Midstream Partners (NSMP) from ArcLight Capital has pulled...

Citi has appointed a new export agency finance origination head as part of the overall treasury and trade solutions (TTS) department. The move follows the departure...

The $300 million 300MW Sakaka solar PV project in Saudi Arabia is expected to reach full financial close on 15 October. The deal, which was expected to close on 28...