In a recent poll taken at the TXF Short-Term Trade and Supply Chain Finance conference in Munich, participants were most excited by automation in the sector, saw BPO as...

Structured commodity financier Gilles Sayer has joined Essar as managing director of Peak Trading Overseas, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Essar Global Fund. In this...

Italian export credit agency (ECA) and insurance and financial group Sace, has opened a representative office in Mexico City. The ECA says that the move comes about due...

Russian mining and metals company Mechel, has received the first tranche of the project financing for the Elga Coal Complex’s first stage of development. The company is...

Standard Chartered (StanChart) has structured and closed a S$45 million ($35.8 million) senior debt facility for United Envirotech Water (Changyi) Company (UE Water) to...

Russia’s Inter RAO group is to receive funds from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to construct a gas-fired power station in Russia’s...

Bolero International and China Systems, a leading trade services solutions vendor, have established a strategic partnership designed to assist clients involved in trade...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has approved a $61.1 million direct loan to Inversiones Eolicas de Orosi Dos (Orosi) to support the export of...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the revival of the Kyrgyz capital’s trolleybus service with the arranging of a financing...

Mercuria Energy Trading and Mercuria Asia Group Holdings have signed, as joint borrowers, the group’s latest Asian-centred revolving credit facilities (RCF) finalised at...

HSBC has made a series of senior appointments in its Asia-Pacific commercial banking team. Sanjay Prakash has been appointed head of commercial banking, international...

Watson, Farley & Williams (WFW) has appointed Joe Levin as partner in its London office. Levin previously held the position of director of the energy and...

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Fondo Strategico Italiano (FSI) today signed a landmark agreement to establish a €1 billion ($1.36 billion) Russian-Italian...

The Italian export credit agency Sace and Russia’s Vnesheconombank (VEB) have signed a cooperation agreement to facilitate economic relations between Italy and the...

Full details of the Chilean Antucoya copper mine financing have been revealed with commercial banks declaring their takes in the $650 million project financing.

Rio Tinto, the world’s second largest mining company has signed new loan facilities amounting to $7.5 billion to refinance its existing bank debt. The new loan...

Russian metals and mining company Evraz has signed loan agreements with VTB Bank for the development of its Urals iron ore mining operations. The borrower is Evraz’s...

Eastern European growth has laboured as a result of the eurozone crisis. Yet overall economic growth continues to surpass that of Western Europe, says Per Fischer, head...

Citi and Santander have partnered to issue Trade MAPS 1 - an asset-backed securitisation (ABS) debt issuance backed by trade finance assets. The two institutions will...

Russian mineral fertiliser producer Uralchem has signed a new, $200 million, five-year unsecured syndicated loan. This is the debut unsecured syndicated loan for the...