MIGA and the IFC have approved a package of loans and guarantees supporting a series of energy projects that will help boost independent power generation and ease...

First Quantum Minerals has closed the syndication of its $2.5 billion five-year term loan and revolving facility, which was increased to $3 billion through...

AgFirst Farm Credit Bank, a US-based provider of funding and financial services to agricultural credit associations, has selected SunGard’s Ambit Commercial Lender to...

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has promoted Isabelle Roux-Sharpe as the new head of the export finance business units and project team. The...

Specialist insurer, Markel International, has appointed Simon Philpin as underwriter and senior risk analyst in its trade credit division.

Orpic (Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company) and a consortium of 21 international and national financial institutions have signed a $2.8 billion umbrella...

Commodity trader Trafigura has published a whitepaper analysing the economics of commodity trading firms.

Accounts receivables securitisation specialist Finacity has closed two loan facilities for US-based affiliates of international corporate clients. Both the facilities are...

Experienced US Ex-Im / Bechtel project financier joins Mariner-owned infra fund

As part of the TXF Commodity Finance Series, TXF is happy to present its May 2014 Natural Resources and Commodities Finance Special Report.

This is a particularly big year for the Berne Union, which has now been supporting exporters, borrowers, investors and the overall export financing sector for the past 80...

Jonathan Bell, editor-in-chief at TXF, talks with Dan Riordan, president of the Berne Union, about taking the organisation forward in its 80th year.

It is now over a year since it became apparent that a major coffee rust outbreak was developing over a wide area of Latin America, ranging from Mexico in the north, to...

Global trade and foreign direct investments have seen dramatic changes in the 80 years since the Berne Union was founded. Not surprisingly, the Berne Union itself has...

"It’s different this time.” A simple phrase, but a potent one. Its reappearances all feel novel, and more’s the pity

Having turned their attention further towards developing economies to compensate for a lack of demand from traditional western markets following the global financial...

Capacity in short-term credit insurance has been steadily returning since the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC) and premiums have recovered. According to Berne Union’s...

When I was appointed chairman of the medium and long-term (MLT) committee at the annual general meeting last October, the total volumes for insurance of long-term export...

Export credit is a tool which has been used for decades to support exports in a world where the main driver of economic growth has been international trade. The need for...

Export-oriented economies benefit from new jobs, more innovation, reduced welfare costs and economic stability. Creating growth through trade is an elemental part of the...