The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and Finnvera - Finland's export credit agency - have agreed a $225 million facility to finance a eucalyptus pulp mill project in...

Germany's economy may be solid but 84% of companies have experienced delays in payment - with exporters worst hit, according to insurer Coface. Over half of these...

Russian oil giant Gazprom has been largely unaffected by western sanctions, having taken a number of steps - such as technological independence and import substitution...

Dutch development bank FMO has closed a $100 million syndicated loan for Paraguay's Banco Continental, co-arranged with Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior....

Earlier this month, Chinese container shipping conglomerate Coscocs signed an $18 billion financing agreement with China Exim to fund the construction of more than 50...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has approved $83 million for businesses on the continent engaged in factoring since 2012. But the lender admitted that...

The Islamic Development Bank has officially opened its Nigeria Country Gateway Office in the country's capital Abuja. It will focus on health, agriculture,...

Trade promotion agency International Enterprise (IE) Singapore has boosted economic ties with Africa by opening an office in Kenya - its third on the continent - and...

Two small businesses - Queensland's cruise operator Frankland Islands Cruises, and New South Wales-based technology company Intersective, are among the first to...

De-risking is on the rise in Africa, with many nations seeing a cut in the number of overseas banks with which financial institutions on the continent do business,...

The creation of a development bank in Malta has been cleared by the European Commission. Malta said it will inject €200 million in capital and allow for tax...

Bonnie Chow has joined XL Catlin as senior underwriter, political risk and trade credit insurance for Asia Pacific. Chow, based in Sydney, specialises in complex...

TXF’s commodity finance report for H1 shows that overall commodity financing is down 30% on the same period last year while structured commodity financing has increased...

Inwha Huh is EVP and Head of Global Trade and Receivables Finance, North America at HSBC. At the bank’s New York headquarters, Huh caught up with TXF’s co-founder Dominik...

Australia's Altech Chemicals has received a summary of senior facility agreement indicative terms and conditions from Germany's KfW IPEX-Bank for $70 million...

The US has nominated Jim Yong Kim as president of the World Bank for a second term, insisting he has "ably led" the bank's response to major global...

The volume of trade documentation issued surged in the second quarter of 2016 - before the Brexit referendum, according to the British Chambers of Commerce and DHL....

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) has told about 3,000 of its global transaction-services (GTS) clients outside the UK and Ireland that their cash management and...

Italian export credit agency SACE has guaranteed a €1 million credit line by Credito Valtellinese to Lucca-based Gambini, which designs, constructs and installs...

Germany's KfW IPEX-Bank and Helaba have agreed a $160.3 million loan to the German wind turbine manufacturer ENERCON, which is building a wind farm in the centre...