Pillsbury Law’s Steve Farmer and Matthew Oresman discuss significant steps taken on both sides of the divide, and the implications for the trade finance industry?

Deutsche Bank’s global transaction banking business has appointed Willem Calame as head of commodity trade finance for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (ex-Germany)...

London-based Demica, the specialist provider of working capital solutions and financing partner to multinational companies, has appointed François Terrade as head of...

China is offering $10 billion in infrastructure loans to South-East Asian countries. The country is looking to expand its influence in the developing world, including...

US-based Bowie Resource Partners has agreed to buy three American mining complexes from Peabody Energy for $358 million. The deal creates the largest bituminous coal...

Swiss-based commodity trader Glencore has agreed to buy as much as 50% of the oil currently exported by Libya in a bid to offset flagging mining profits. Glencore will...

Five British financial services trade associations are set to merge to give them more lobbying clout. Merging the British Bankers' Association, Payments UK, the...

Belgium-based zinc producer Nyrstar NV has named commodity trader Trafigura's Christopher Eger as its chief financial officer. He was part of the mergers and...

Egypt has secured a $4.2 billion loan from a German consortium for the development of three power projects. Deutsche Bank, HSBC Germany and German Bank of...

TXF Media has announced dates for its Trade, Treasury and Commodity Finance conference at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on the 23rd and 24th of February 2016. The event will...

Despite consensus to reauthorise US Exim Bank in Congress, the Senate, and from the White House, due to further deliberations over the transportation funding bill...

Dubai-based bank Emirates Islamic has launched EI trade - a Shariah-compliant online trade finance and supply chain platform. It can be used to submit, process and...

Politician Swati Dandekar has been nominated as the United States director of the Asian Development Bank. She was given the rank of an ambassador by US President...

US-based cloud treasury management company Kyriba has appointed Eric Riddle to its executive leadership team as executive vice-president of supply chain finance...

US-based oil company Sanchez Energy has seen the borrowing base under its $1.5 billion revolving credit facility drop from $550 million to $500 million. To date,...

Singapore-based Puma Energy International, the fuel retail and storage company spun off from commodity trader Trafigura, is building a $100 million facility for...

Socar Trading - the marketing arm of Azerbaijan's oil giant Socar - has signed its first revolving credit facility. The $150 million deal complements its existing...

Global energy and commodities group Mercuria Energy has signed its Asian revolving credit facility (RCF) for a total amount of $1.1 billion. General syndication saw a...

HSBC’s highly-regarded global head of commodity & structured trade finance (CSTF), Jean-Francois Lambert, has left the bank. The departure comes as part of a structural...

The lack of reliable data in the trade finance industry could be contributing to the knowledge gap between industry participants, regulators and institutional investors,...