The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has officially launched its new education and training project, the ICC Academy.

Cornerstone Global Commodities (Cornerstone) – the global brokerage firm specialising in energy derivatives – has recruited Duncan Preston from Swiss-based commodity...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $20 million loan, to partly finance the working capital of Medsofts, a family-owned company...

HSBC has become the first foreign bank to complete a transaction under the new offshore borrowing policy within the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ). The Chinese...

Yoma Bank of Myanmar, one of the country’s largest private banks, has chosen the FusionBanking Essence product of financial software firm Misys for a front-to-back...

The Oceanic Breeze LNG Transport (OBLT) project has secured $125 million worth of financing from a club of Japanese banks and the Japanese export credit agency (ECA), the...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has signed an agreement with the Arab Trade Financing Programme (ATFP) to help encourage the expansion of...

Four development financing agencies have teamed to provide a loan to Morocco’s BMCE Bank to be used in sustainable energy projects. The agencies involved are: the...

Dubai-headquartered Orascom Construction (OC) has announced today that it is to move ahead rapidly with its planned 3,000 MW coal-fired power plant in Egypt, with an...

The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) is providing Egypt with a $4 billion financing package in support of a selection of energy and infrastructure projects. The deals were...

Dubai-based airline Emirates has mandated eight banks to arrange a sukuk – an Islamic bond – guaranteed by British export credit agency (ECA) UK Export Finance (UKEF).

Commodity trading company Trafigura Beheer has today announced that Christophe Salmon will become the company’s new chief financial officer (CFO) as of 1 October 2015.

Shipping company Maersk Line has announced that Pierre Danet will become the new chief financial officer of the company as of 7 April 2015. He will also be part of the...

Two employees within Commerzbank’s cash management and international business department will leave the bank, as part of the agreement which saw a $1.45 billion fine...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group, has appointed a new director of...

Commodity trader Mercuria Energy is expanding its marine fuel division - Minerva Maritime Fuel – with the announcement today that it is looking to hire 20 to 40 bunker...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) through its private sector window has approved a multi-currency loan to ABC Holdings (ABCH) in Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe for...

Canada’s export credit agency (ECA), Export Development Canada (EDC), is providing a $750,000 credit facility to the Mexican affiliate of Montreal-based GNR Technologies...

The World Bank group and Swiss index-insurance specialist CelsiusPro have partnered to make agricultural insurance in Ukraine more affordable for smaller companies,...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has teamed with Standard Chartered (StanChart) to provide Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), a Nairobi Stock...