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...
The aviation industry will take delivery of $3.5 trillion of new commercial jets aircraft over the next 20 years, with an average of $125 billion of funding required over...
Stamford, US-headquartered Finacity Corporation has successfully merged of two existing trade receivables securitisations for Mexican glass producer Vitro SAB de CV...
Law firm Hogan Lovells is expanding its scope and capabilities in Africa by merging with the South African law firm Routledge Modise. The combination will take effect...
Dutch institutional investors Zwitserleven, the Spoorweg Pensioenfonds and the Pensioenfonds Openbaar Vervoer have made a first deposit in the SNS FMO SME Finance Fund –...
The National Bank of Abu Dhabi (NBAD) has appointed Aleem Khan as head of its newly established structured financing business. Before joining NBAD, Khan served as...
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The differences between export credit agencies was a prevailing topic of conversation at the TXF ECA Finance conference in Paris
Metals and energy producer Norsk Hydro has signed a $1.7 billion syndicated revolving multi-currency credit facility with a syndicate of 13 international banks. The...
Russia’s Nomos-Bank has secured a syndicated loan of $240 million from a group of foreign and Russian banks. The arrangement is the largest syndicate loan yet arranged...
The TXF Dealmakers Assembly landed in Vienna for two days of networking constructive debate. Amid increased competition from non-OECD financiers, ECAs are being pushed to offer more flexibility than ever. Could this come at a cost to the traditional export finance product?
Cameroon recently signed an ECA-backed loan for a strategic national road project. The deal has provided a financial blueprint for SME exporters to get involved in future such deals in the country - if they are willing to shoulder complex and lengthy deal timelines.
Every article should have a call to action in the 'standfirst'. It's particularly tough to do that on an obituary for a much loved friend and colleague. Thanks to all those who joined us at Sean's alma mater London watering hole, the Cockpit, to raise a glass in his memory. For those who missed it, please do continue to read about him.
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