The Albanian finance and economy minister has announced that the government is considering the scrapping of the 20% VAT charged on imported photovoltaic equipment.

Spanish forestry and energy group Greenalia has secured up to €60 million of funding from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for its 50MW Greenalia Biomass Power...

The Texas Public Utility Commission has pressed Southwestern Public Service (SPS) for detailed information concerning its plans for an additional 1.23GW of wind...

Sponsors of the 97MW Rantau Dedap geothermal power plant in Indonesia – Engie (33.3%), Supreme Energy (33.3%), Marubeni (16.6%), and Tohoku Electric Power...

Infrastructure equity provider Orion Energy Partners has opened an office in Houston, having partnered on five projects in the region in the past two...

The International Finance Corporation has teamed up with Swiss Re Corporate Solutions to expand its Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program by $500 million. The move will...

Nemaska has come to an arrangement with Orion Mine Finance Group for an equivalent of 8.7% net portion of the stream product sales from the proposed Shawinigan...

Britain has launched a "root and branch" review of its audit watchdog after corporate scandals raised questions about its ability to police how accountants...

The Bulgarian Development Bank has signed a memorandum of understanding with the development banks of Croatia, Hungary and Macedonia, the Black Sea Trade and Development...

CDC Group, the UK's development finance institution, and Standard Chartered have signed a memorandum of understanding for a supply chain finance programme that will...

Herbert Smith Freehills has picked up four asset finance partners from Watson Farley Williams, including Siva Subramaniam and Samuel Kolehmainen from the latter's...

Mayer Brown has hired banking and finance specialist Shri Maski and corporate expert Gordon Palmquist as partners at its recently opened Tokyo office from Ashurst and...

Fintech innovation is often seen as a threat to the traditional banking status quo - at least, that is, until traditional FIs begin acquiring, partnering with or...

Embattled Hong Kong-headquartered trader Noble Group is removing a provision in its $3.4 billion debt restructuring proposal that penalised shareholders voting against...

Australian-British miner Rio Tinto flagged possible changes to its 2018 aluminum output following US sanctions on its Russian partner Rusal earlier this month. The...

Chicago-based Treasury Management Systems provider GTreasury has bought and will merge with Visual Risk, an Australian-based risk management and compliance software...

Three major Japanese nonlife insurance companies will introduce new trade insurance to support Japanese companies' advancement to Vietnam, with help from Nippon...

Geneva-headquartered oil trader Gunvor Group is to join rival Trafigura in disclosing some of the billions of dollars it pays to governments and national oil companies...

Zambia has shortlisted five groups - Glencore Energy, China Petroleum Technology & Development, Russia's JSC Global Security, Sahara Energy Resources, and a...

Many barriers to digital trade, such as misaligned national regulations, poor infrastructure, low use of electronic payments, undeveloped legal systems, low purchasing...