Bibby Financial Services has secured a new three-year €150 million funding agreement with HSBC to boost its support for European small and medium-sized...

IBM has launched a new blockchain operation in Singapore. The first projects for the innovation centre will focus on improving the flow of multi-party trade finance...

Ishka provides a summary of the major Chinese players in the aircraft leasing sector - old and new - and anticipates what the future may hold once the dust has...

Bibby Transportation Finance (BTF), a subsidiary of Bibby Financial Services, has hired Ivan Cook as business development officer. He will focus on providing freight...

Helios Towers DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo subsidiary of telecommunications towers operator Helios Towers Africa, has secured a $105 million syndicated term...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has hired Constantin von Moltke, the former head of loan syndication at the African Development Bank (AfDB). He will begin...

In a wide-ranging interview, Riccardo Greco, chief financial officer of commodity trader BB Energy, talks to TXF’s Ollie Gordon about commodity prices, target markets,...

At the end of last month, US Ex -Im unveiled its annual competitiveness report for 2015 to Congress. TXF's Max Thompson analyses the report’s findings.

UK-based working capital solutions provider Demica has hired Angel Blanco as origination director, Enrique Jimenez as senior supply chain finance origination director...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) is close to being able to make large loans again. US lawmakers agreed an amendment to a funding bill allowing...

The number of insolvencies in the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region dropped throughout 2015 in 9 out of 13 countries, insurer Coface said in its Country Risk...

UK-based HPD Software, a technology specialist for finance providers, has launched Aquarius Trade Finance. It is designed to link the whole trade process into one...

Global financial products and services company Capital Business Credit (CBC) has provided a factoring facility worth about $3 million to US-based T-shirt wholesaler...

Export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF) has signed a deal with Iran's energy ministry on financing its water and energy plans. Iran hopes the move could...

Credit insurer Coface has appointed Thomas Jacquet as group investor relations & rating agencies director. He succeeds Nicolas Andriopoulos.

The Export Credit Finance Division of South Africa's Nedbank has hired Michael Creighton as its new head. He joins from the African Trade Insurance Agency.

Azerbaijan's state energy giant Socar has cut the cost of its export credit agency-backed project to build a new gas chemical complex. Socar has signed agreements...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has agreed a €90 million loan to Croatia's Raiffeisen Factoring to extend factoring financing to...

Belgian insurer KBC teamed up with IT specialist Cegeka and various companies to successfully trial Digital Trade Chain - a blockchain solution which facilitates...

Global trade has been depressed by excess industrial production, G20 trade ministers said. Meeting host China said there had been a "very sluggish recovery"...