Rabobank and export credit insurer Atradius Dutch State Business (Atradius DSB) have combined to help arrange project financing for two onshore wind farms in Finland....

Specialist financier Falcon Group has appointed three senior originators to develop its forfaiting capabilities. The new hires, Ray Webb, Martin Betts and Keith...

Energy trader Vitol Dubai has bought a 15% stake in Pakistan-based fuel oil storage and trading company Hascol Petroleum. The deal is believed to include an option for...

The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) and the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) have signed...

Chad has become the 38th country to join the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). The official accession document was signed by Chad's Minister of...

The Kuwait Investment Authority - the country's sovereign wealth fund - has allocated another $500 million to investment projects in Russia in partnership with the...

Fondo Sviluppo Export, a fund created by Italian export credit agency SACE, is underwriting a €10 million bond issued by Italian machinery producer SCM Group. The...

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe (SMBCE) and Mizuho have arranged and signed a €132 million ($142.7 million) loan facility with the Azerbaijan state-owned...

USA-headquartered energy company Triangle Petroleum has had the borrowing base under its senior credit facility reaffirmed at $350 million. No terms of the credit...

Russian gold and silver producer Polymetal has sealed a four-year pre-export finance facility agreement for $245 million with an opportunity to raise it to $350...

The commodities team of international law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has been boosted by the appointment of trade finance specialist Philip Prowse. He joins the...

Swiss-based commodity trader Trafigura has bought up to 50% of the shares being sold in a rights offer by zinc refiner Nyrstar NV. The €125 million shares deal...

Nigerian oil firm Oando Energy Resources has repaid its $100 million loan facility with the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank). The facility was utilised in...

Insurance broker Marsh has appointed Maurits Quarles van Ufford as senior client executive to its global commodity trading platform. Geneva-based Quarles joined the...

An international bank group led by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s (MUFG) banking arm, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), has signed a term loan facility for the...

The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) has sealed a deal to finance exports to Cuba. The agreement with Cuba's Banco Internacional...

The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) has insured the financing of steel teeming ladles shipments to Belarus. The loan was made by...

Chinese trade received a boost as the Bank of China launched two global commodity business centres in Singapore - the first outside of the country. It also signed a...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States moved closer to being back in business when the House of Representatives passed a transportation funding which would also...

Steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal South Africa plans to raise up to $324 million in a rights offer in a bid to cut debt and invest in plants. The company said its...