Larger companies are usually to blame for paying SMEs late, according to new research by insurance company Zurich, which found 53% of late payments owed to UK small...

Maritime industry procurement platform ShipServ has teamed up with MarTrust, a global payments provider focused on the industry, in a partnership they say will make it...

Singapore's DBS Bank has won an in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India to convert its Indian branch into a wholly owned subsidiary. It says it will...

South Derbyshire District Council has issued planning consent for the battery storage system being developed by Green Hedge subsidiary Energy 2 Barn Ltd, with funding...

ANZ has appointed Hodaka Shoji as head of specialised finance, Japan. Shoji will replace Yoshiaki Inoue, who left the bank in December, and will now be responsible...

Cloud accounting company Acuity is teaming up with corporate payments firm Veem to streamline cross-border B2B payments. Veem will link its B2B clients to Acuity's...

East African traffic volumes for SWIFT's FIN service have surged 20.1% year-to-date, outpacing the 8.2% growth seen for the financial messaging service worldwide.

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State bidding agency Proinversion has announced November 15 for the auction of the copper mining project in the northern Cajamarca region that had been developed by Anglo...

Australian bank Westpac has boosted its structured commodities finance team with two new appointments. Zongyuan Li joins the team as a director and Nikita Kabanovs as an...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved up to $210 million in debt financing for more than ten solar power projects in Egypt. The projects are the...

The Republic of Ireland's Electricity Supply Board (ESB) is working on early and mid-stage development opportunities in Ireland and the UK for a pipeline of offshore...

Improved trade facilitation - simplifying, modernising, and harmonising the export and import processes - can cut trade costs by up to 9% in Asia and the Pacific,...

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has agreed to provide loans of up to JPY24.7 billion ($225 million) to finance the Bien Hoa City Drainage and Wastewater...

Euler Hermes has warned that UK automotive exports could fall by £3.5 billion if a Brexit deal isn't sealed by March 2019. The group's UK country report...

Euler Hermes has appointed Massimo Reale as market management commercial & distribution director of Euler Hermes Italy. He was previously Euler Hermes Italy risk...

Marubeni and Korea Electric Power Corp (Kepco) have officially mandated the bank line-up for the $2.79 billion 1200MW Nghi Son 2 IPP project in Vietnam’s central...

Adani Abbot Point Terminal is out to syndication with an A$250 million ($199 million) loan. The deal is rumoured to include an accordion option for a further A$250...

Specialist credit and political risk insurance broker BPL Global has been granted a brokerage license by the Dubai Financial Services Authority to conduct insurance...

Ukrainian corporates have had a tough time of it since 2014 when Crimea was annexed by Russia. However, just three years later the better names in Ukraine are returning...