International trade lawyer Chiara Klaui has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld as counsel in London. She joins from Baker McKenzie in Amsterdam and has extensive...

The digitised world presents financial services with a transformation challenge, according to global management consultancy Oliver Wyman. Digitising purely to boost...

Financing for the project signed in November 2016, but full financial close was still subject to resolution of some of the conditions in the project’s power purchase...

Sofitex, one of Burkina Faso’s largest cotton exporters, is expected to finalise €90 million ($95.4 million) in financing from international banks for the 2016/2017...

The China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) celebrates its first year of operations this week. Take a look at what it achieved in 2016, how it has been...

Vietnam's import-export department has warned businesses to be extra vigilant of fraud after a number of exporters recently lost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Geronimo Gutierrez Fernandez, managing director of the North American Development Bank, is Mexico's new ambassador to the US. He faces the daunting task of...

Seven banks - Deutsche Bank, HSBC, KBC, Natixis, Rabobank, Societe Generale and UniCredit - are uniting to form Digital Trade Chain, a blockchain-based trade finance...

What will 2017 hold for blockchain? Predictions include 2017 being the "year of the pilot" as it moves from a proof-of concept technology to production -...

Portuguese export credit agency COSEC has guaranteed a €178 million project deal awarded to the Angolan subsidiary of Portuguese construction group Mota-Engil to...

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed two buyer's credit agreements with two Singaporean subsidiaries of Hong Kong-based shipping group Tai...

Outgoing US president Barack Obama has lifted some trade and economic sanctions against Sudan. The US Department of the Treasury authorised Americans to do business in...

The volume of US Ex-Im export and job support plummeted again in 2016. But against all the political odds the battered ECA still made a profit for the US Treasury –...

Belgium-based oil tanker company Euronav has secured competitive pricing on its latest revolving credit. The deal was oversubscribed and pulled commitments from 10 banks....

HBOR, Croatia's development bank, is facing legal action from Greece after Croatian shipyard Montmontaza Greben allegedly defaulted on its contract. HBOR provided the...

Law firm Clifford Chance is responding to demand for more Africa-focused expertise from clients in the Middle East by strengthening its presence in the region. Edmund...

The proposed Development Bank of Nigeria was conceived in 2014 but its launch has been fraught with delays. Here are nine things to know about the bank, including how...

Russia's Vnesheconombank (VEB) has opened loans for the first two projects financed using the assets of the National Wealth Fund. The projects are the modernisation...

Spanish export credit agency Cesce is set to agree a financing deal for Peru's state energy company Petroperu as part of a $3 billion project to upgrade its Talara...

Global law firm Ince & Co has opened an office in Marseille and hired two partners, Fabien d'Haussy and Laurianne Ribes, who specialise in shipping and transport.