UK SME lender Ezbob raises $21m from Russian firm
US small business online lender Ezbob has raised £15 million in new funding through an investment from Moscow-based PE firm Da Vinci Capital Management. The funding...
US small business online lender Ezbob has raised £15 million in new funding through an investment from Moscow-based PE firm Da Vinci Capital Management. The funding...
Unipec, the trading arm of Asia's largest refiner Sinopec, has hired veteran crude oil trader Lee Yee Meng, who will join its office in Hong Kong in May. Lee left...
A $1.1 billion project to build a 1,400km transmission line project connecting the isolated systems on Mexico's Baja California peninsula to the national grid has...
Ghana's Cocobod will sell as much as $556 million of debt to pay for liabilities and operational costs, while pledging to end subsidies for farmers. It will sell the...
India has clarified that cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are not legal tender but finance minister Arun Jaitley expressed support for blockchain technology, which...
Ukraine expects its export credit agency to be launched by June. The government plans to create the agency in the form of a public joint stock company.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed a new $40 million financing facility with Nairobi-based I&M Bank that will support investment by businesses across Kenya....
MyBank Payments has enabled the initiation of payment transactions for a total value of over €5 billion since its launch in March 2013. The solution...
Global law firm White & Case has opened a new office in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to support international clients who are taking advantage of increasing...
South Africa's Land and Agricultural Development Bank has signed a R900 million term loan facility with German development bank KfW. It will help increase the...
Zurich North America has named Lillian Labbat as head of Trade Credit and Political Risk. Prior to joining Zurich, Labbat held executive roles in global trade finance,...
Anhui Conch Cement Company Limited is planning to develop a 5,000 tons per day (t/d) cement project in Russia, according to Xu Yue, the minister of equipment department...
Competition within Asia's trade finance market is heating up, according to new research from East & Partners Asia. The incumbent primary trade finance market share...
UK Export Finance (UKEF) has ramped up its risk appetite with a spate of new product suites, initiatives, and strategies aimed at increasing support for SMEs. TXF spoke...
State-owned utility PLN is expected to relaunch the request for proposals (RFPs) for its Babelponi gas-to-power project in Q2 of this year. TXF understands that PLN is...
Coronal Energy has closed a financing using a new solar revenue put structure from solar risk manager kWh Analytics. The financing backs 30MW of projects in Virginia. The...
Australian Mines has appointed Medea Natural Resources to advise on the off-take and project financing for its 100%-owned Sconi cobalt-nickel-scandium project in northern...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the government of Canada have formed a blended finance partnership that will use public funds to unlock larger amounts of...
China Development Bank is to make up to 10 billion yuan ($1.59 billion) available to Standard Chartered to fund projects in countries along China’s ‘Belt and...
Glencore said production was lower for most commodities in 2017. Coal production fell 3% to 121 million tonnes and nickel production decreased 5% to 109,100 tonnes....