Australia’s New South Wales pronounces itself happy with an all-local bid for its prize electricity transmission asset.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and America's Wells Fargo used blockchain technology in a "world's first" deal for a shipment of cotton...

French group Tereos is in talks to buy Brazil's state-owned oil giant Petrobras's 45.9% minority stake in their joint sugar venture Guaran. Petrobras has vowed...

Insurer Euler Hermes has warned in a new report that global trade growth will weaken to +2.1% by volume this year - with an acceleration of just +3.1% in 2017.

German development bank KfW will next year provide around €1 billion to boost sustainable public transport in growing cities in developing countries and emerging...

Export credit agency SACE has backed a deal which sees Virgin Voyages order three cruise ships from Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri. The loan will be supported by...

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) will lend $39 million to Russia's Sberbank to help a company buy coal-handling equipment. Japan hopes the loan...

Banks and payment providers will have to adapt to comply with the new EU directive on Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2), according to the latest white paper...

Former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has been appointed a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's (AIIB) international advisory...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has helped finance four solar photovoltaic projects in Jordan through Dubai's Adenium Energy Capital.

Belgium wants to become a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Signing up signals Belgium's desire to work more closely with China's...

Exporters across a number of industries have seen gaps emerge between them on the cost of their financing. According to TXF/Clevis Research’s 2016 Exporter Survey,...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC said it reached a deal to sell $1 billion of shale oil and gas assets in Western Canada as part of a global divestment program to raise cash and...

  The $10.81 billion Nord-Stream-2 project, led by Gazprom is hoping to attract new financing options after Poland's anti-monopoly watchdog objected to...

In a sign that trade relations between Russia and Cuba are stepping up, Russia's ECA, EXIAR, has agreed to guarantee the bulk of a $4 billion finance agreement for Cuban...

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, issued bonds in the amount of 100 million Singapore dollars—equivalent to about $73 million—as part of its strategy...

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) will provide insurance for loans extended by a commercial...

Africa's economic growth is expected to dip this year before rebounding in 2017 to remain the world's second fastest growing region after east Asia, the...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Export Development Canada (EDC) and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S....

Doug Schoch, vice president of Captive Business at Siemens, talks to TXF's managing director Dan Sheriff about Siemens' supply chain finance programme and the direction...