Louis Dreyfus will wind down the fund management activities of commodities specialist Edesia Asset Management by the end of the year as part of its drive to focus on...
European banks have begun a fresh wave of investment in Iran, with lenders in Austria, Denmark and France announcing investment deals with Iran worth a collective €2...
In an update of its flagship annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2017, the Asian Development Bank forecasts gross domestic product growth of 5.9% in...
A group of banks and SACE have put forward a financing proposal to the Argentine government to fund the $2.85 billion Sarmiento Rail project in Buenos Aires. The...
Utility companies of the three participating countries have signed a two-year Energy Purchase and Wheeling Agreement (EPWA) for up to 100MW of hydro power from Laos that...
Dongying Lufang Metals Material has closed a $355 million three-year pre-export financing (PXF) in the offshore market. Lenders on the new money loan include ING...
The Baltcap Infrastructure Fund (BinF), supported by Nordic pension funds and the European Investment Bank, has signed an EPC agreement with Axis...
Israel-based Enlight Renewable Energy – via special purpose vehicle Electrawinds K-Wind – has closed a €142 million ($167 million) partially...
Malta-based Mediterranean Bank has gone live on Infosys Finacle's Finacle Lending Module, adding to its existing suite of Finacle applications including Finacle Core...
Singaporean cross-border payments firm InstaReM has been granted an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license from the Bank of Lithuania and has picked Vilnius as its...
Blockchain technology could offer real benefits to corporate treasurers, with many viewing it as an opportunity to cut high cross-border payments costs. But others...
Central Africa-focused BGFI Bank is rolling out a new version of Sopra Banking Software's core banking system, Amplitude Up, starting with Gabon. BGFI offers...
US investment company BNY Mellon and treasury solutions provider Hazeltree have joined forces in an initiative that will deliver BNY Mellon's full suite of cash,...
New backing from the European Investment Fund, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the European Investment Bank means €700 million of new...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is off to a successful listing of its depositary receipts (DRs) on the official market of the Stock Exchange of Mauritius...
International Finance Corporation, Banco Santander and the respective Spanish and Argentinian ECAs, Compania Espanola de Seguros de Credito a la Exportacion (CESCE) and...
The Bulgarian Development Bank has received a €50 million loan from the Export-Import Bank of China (Chexim) for on-lending to Bulgarian businesses. It represents...
San Francisco-headquartered alternative credit and direct lending specialist White Oak Global Advisors has named former Consortium Finance executive John Felix as its...
UK Export Finance (UKEF) is increasing its support available for trade with Uruguay to £4 billion, meaning an additional £2.25 billion to back UK companies...
Swiss-headquartered commodity trader Vitol saw first-half profits rise to $818.9 million from $546.4 million a year ago. The figure was boosted by the group earning...
Cameroon recently signed an ECA-backed loan for a strategic national road project. The deal has provided a financial blueprint for SME exporters to get involved in future such deals in the country - if they are willing to shoulder complex and lengthy deal timelines.
Every article should have a call to action in the 'standfirst'. It's particularly tough to do that on an obituary for a much loved friend and colleague. Thanks to all those who joined us at Sean's alma mater London watering hole, the Cockpit, to raise a glass in his memory. For those who missed it, please do continue to read about him.
The latest Angolan Ministry of Finance ECA-backed loan to sign to fund the construction of an airport marks the country's ninth such sovereign deal this year, with Angola now accounting for nearly half of Africa's total deal volume.
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