The SWIFT Institute has investigated the practical application of blockchain technologies in securities markets - and found that industry collaboration is essential if...

Global law firm Winston & Strawn has boosted its transportation finance practice in London by hiring partners Christopher Boresjo and Mark Moody. They will focus...

The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) has agreed to back SMW Engineering's exports of tyre rims to Italy, Germany, Latvia and...

Estonia's Eesti Energia is selling the majority of its stake in Jordan's first $2.2 billion power plant to be fuelled by oil shale to China's Yudean Group....

Banks are continuing to withdraw from many of their correspondent banking relationships - a process which threatens global trade, especially in poorer countries. TXF...

Filippo Pappalardo has been appointed as head of UniCredit's coverage of multinational firms in the Americas across the corporate and investment bank. Pappalardo...

South Korea's government and central bank agreed this week to devise detailed plans on how to finance structural reform in the country's shipbuilding and...

Glencore announced on Wednesday it had cut its copper and zinc production in the first quarter of 2016 as it struggles to reduce its surplus that has caused prices to...

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has said it will recapitalise the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) by giving the lender stakes in state-run companies....

The International Chamber of Commerce has warmed to a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report which identifies a the trade finance gap for small-and medium-sized...

The first ever Intra-African Trade Finance and Payment Systems Conference held in Abidjan has urged African development finance insitutions to forge partnerships in a...

TXF’s Dominik Kloiber caught up with Sace’s head of international business, Michal Ron, to discuss the Italian ECA’s latest push to expand its footprint and product...

Project finance loans in Latin America and the Caribbean dropped to $2.37 billion for 13 projects in the first quarter of 2016, compared to $3.97 billion for 39...

The People's Bank of China is turning on the credit taps to the China Development Bank (CBD), Agricultural Development Bank of China, and the Export-Import Bank of...

Russian potash producer Uralkali has completed a $1.2 billion pre-export financing with more than a dozen international banks, bucking the trend for Russian commodity...

Trade promotion agency International Enterprise (IE) Singapore has enhanced its structured commodity financing scheme to include streaming financing, merger and...

Singapore-based oil and gas group Puma Energy, a subsidiary of Trafigura, saw first-quarter gross profits rise 23% to a record $428 million. Puma also closed new...

Abbey Sturrock has joined insurer Marsh's political risk and structured credit practice as a senior vice president. Based in London, she will be responsible for...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) says more needs to be done to help close the gaps in the availability of trade finance for small and medium-sized enterprises...

The Islamic Development Bank, which is expanding its financing activities, will sell sukuk bonds in the Malaysian market this year after a three-year hiatus.