TXF talks with Marc Auboin, counsellor within the Economic Research and Statistics Devision within the World Trade Organisation (WTO), about the continuing dialogue with...

The annual World Trade Organisation (WTO) Public Forum provides an opportunity for dialogue, an exchange of ideas and the conduct of deliberations on major issues in...

Turkish leasing company, Ak Finansal Kiralama (Aklease) has signed a €30 million ($38 million) six year loan with ING, backed by SACE, the Italian export credit agency...

Finding efficient ways of managing working capital is the key focus for corporate treasurers going into 2015, according to a survey of nearly 80 treasurers and financial...

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has appointed Martin Knott as its new head of trade for global transaction services (GTS).

Finacity Corporation (Finacity), the receivables finance company, has appointed Judith Schrecker as its new board director.

Sasol, the South African oil and fuels company, has today announced the final approval of an $8.1 billion ethane cracker and derivatives complex at its existing site in...

Japanese export credit agency (ECA), the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has teamed up with a club of Japanese banks to provide three export loans to the...

Germany’s UniCredit and Japan’s Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi (BTMU) have combined to process the first Bank Payment Obligation (BPO) transaction between Germany and Japan....

Members of the Berne Union – International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers – came together in London this week for their annual general meeting (AGM). At the same...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved two loans totaling $500 million to help the government in India’s largest state of Rajasthan to better manage essential...

The Philippine geothermal and renewable energy producer, Energy Development Corporation, has signed a $315 million financing agreement with a club of foreign and local...

This week the Berne Union – the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers – came together in London for their annual general meeting (AGM), which is also the...

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) together with JP Morgan has arranged a $100 million long term loan facility for the pan-African development finance...

Italy’s export credit agency (ECA), SACE, has just released its 2014 risk map, analysing the impact of geopolitical instability on Italian businesses over the past year....

Sberbank of Russia and the Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR), the country’s export credit agency, have entered into a cooperation...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $12.7 million African Development Fund partial risk guarantee (AfDF PRG) for the 105 MW Menengai Independent Power...

Commerzbank, Germany’s second-largest bank by assets, has made its bank payment obligation (BPO) debut, processing two live transactions.

CITIC Global Trade Shanghai (CGT), the subsidiary of CITIC Securities, China’s largest investment bank, has signed an agreement with Impala Terminals, the global...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has signed a loan agreement with Nigeria’s Heritage Bank providing funds to facilitate the acquisition of Enterprise Bank...