In a new report just released, it asserts that banks and fintechs should collaborate rather than compete, as a strategy to overcome some of the challenges facing the...

French bank BNP Paribas has shut down its reserve-based lending business in Houston after 13-year-low oil prices stoked concerns of rising loan defaults among...

Low commodity prices are raising political risk and causing capital controls in the emerging markets, warns Zurich. The credit and political risk insurer states...

WindMW, owner of the Meerwind offshore wind park, mandated Deutsche Bank in December 2015 to refinance a series of loans and bonds on the 288MW Meerwind Sud/Ost...

Maersk, the world’s largest container shipping company, has stated that business conditions are markedly worse than during the 2008 financial crisis as the...

Jamaica Cane Product Sales Limited (JCPS), owner of the Jamaica Gold brand and a marketer of raw bulk sugar, has issued a  $1.2 billion privately-placed bond to...

New metal trader Concord Resources has signed a $250m one-year credit line from J Aron, Goldman Sachs’s commodity lending arm. Concord, which is based in...

At the beginning of the 2016, Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Factors Group (IFG) merged to form the world’s largest factoring network. The...

US software developer GlobalTrade Corporation (GTC) has announced that Kongsberg Gruppen - a Norwegian tech firm that develops advanced systems and technologies...

The Export-Import Bank of India (India Ex-Im) plans to raise $300 million from Chinese financial markets through panda bonds to finance demand for credit. The bank is...

Mark Price, the outgoing boss of Waitrose, will become Britain's new Foreign Office trade minister. His role will see him oversee UK Export Finance, Britain's...

India's ambitious plan to build 100 smart cities faces the challenges of local content requirements on goods and services, and financing, according to the US. A...

MFC Industrial, a Canadian global trade finance and supply chain company, has bought Bawag Malta Bank in a €90.8 million deal. The bank, bought from Bawag PSK of...

SACE, the Italian export credit agency, has provided an €8 million guarantee to the country's Maglital, a textile manufacturer. Maglital is planning a...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM) are joining forces to help revive Nigeria's cocoa sector via an...

DS-Concept, a global commercial finance company, has provided a $1 million export accounts receivable facility to a sporting goods and accessories manufacturer in...

A study of manufacturing executives by GT Nexus, a cloud-based global commerce platform, found 40% had faced supply chain disruption in the past year. But only 24%...

This two-part series examines the positive and negative aspects of working with agency lenders or agencies. ‘Agency lender’ is a name given to a group of...

Nickel miners in Australia - including Glencore and BHP Billiton - are under increasing pressure to slow production, with investors eyeing key announcements in coming...

The UK's goods trade gap with the rest of the world widened by £1.9 billion to a record high of £125 billion in 2015, official figures show. But the...