UniCredit has signed a €30 million ($40.2 million) structured financing with Italian metals producer Metalleghe Group for a new silicon metal production plant in Bosnia-...

Surecomp has announced that its IMEX Trade Finance solution has been deployed by Romania’s UniCredit Tiriac Bank (UTB). Cristina Bunescu, head of trade finance at UTB...

Standard Chartered (StanChart) has been appointed as the sole account bank for CLP Wind Farm’s (India) (CLPWF) pooled projects. CLPWF’s current wind power projects are...

Danish export credit agency Export Kredit Fonden (EKF) has reported a significant rise in the number of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) winning SME export...

Specialist positioning technology provider Trimble has appointed Francois Delepine as chief financial officer (CFO). Trimble integrates a wide range of positioning...

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) has appointed Maaike Steinebach as its Hong Kong country head and managing director Hong Kong for its Institutional banking...

South African coal mining company, Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL), has signed an 18-month, R210 million (approximately $21.4 million) working capital facility from...

Development finance institutions (DFIs) have combined to provide an overall financing facility of $69 million for a sustainable forestry project in Latin America (LatAm).

Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) has appointed banking and finance partner Keith Sandilands to head its aviation practice in Asia. He recently moved from the...

KfW IPEX-Bank is providing a €55 million ($75 million) loan to finance German equipment supplies for the expansion of the petrochemical complex of Gail India Limited...

Stuart Grice has been appointed head of trade credit at Bluefin insurance group with immediate effect. Based in London, Grice will manage Bluefin's credit insurance team...

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has recruited Cissy Hon to the bank as head of trade product management, North Asia and head of supply chain finance, Asia.

First Quantum Minerals (First Quantum) has secured an extension of the tenor, and an amendment of the terms under its existing $2.5 billion credit facility. The signing...

Uralkali, the Russian potash producer, has signed its first ever ECA-backed transaction. The $236 million (€171.4 million) financing will fund the construction of two...

Hong Kong-listed Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) has signed a $50 million loan agreement with China Development Bank Corporation (CDB) Hong Kong branch. The borrower of...

RBS has appointed Michael Gilham as a director for financial institutions trade origination in EMEA at RBS International Banking. He joins from Lloyds Bank where he led...

BHP Billiton (BHP), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Westpac Banking Corporation, Cargill and Minerva Marine have completed the first trade financed iron ore trade using...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has contributed over $1 billion in revenues to the US Treasury for the fiscal year 2013. This revenue, generated...

Standard Chartered (StanChart) announced today that it has completed a trade finance transaction with the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) under the Uniform Rules for BPO...

Pan-African Ecobank has successfully, officially deployed Global CASHplus, Fundtech’s integrated, real-time cross-border payment and cash management system in 30 African...