A lot can happen in 12 months. But don’t take our word for it, just ask those in the export finance industry who have set themselves – or been set – on new career paths...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is providing a trade finance facility of up to $10 million to Vietnam's TienPhong Commercial Joint Stock Bank to...

Members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have agreed to abolish subsidies on farming exports at a summit in Kenya. The move is designed to help farmers in poorer...

Japan's government will inject 33 billion yen ($272 million) into the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) as capital for a new Asia-focused...

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has agreed to lend Argentina $5 billion over the next four years. The deal includes the construction of tunnels beneath the...

Libya's National Oil Corporation, affiliated with the internationally recognised government in the east, said it will sign agreements with six companies to sell...

Cambodia and Thailand have agreed to increase bilateral trade by 300% to $15 billion by 2020. The countries want to boost trade, tourism, security, and cooperation in...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is arranging a financing package for the Banie Wind Farm renewables project in Poland. The EBRD is...

There are two distinct possibilities for the future of sustainable trade. One is a positive vision in which deeper globalisation trumps protectionism, and the march of...

EKF, Denmark's export credit agency, will introduce a 25% rise on premiums for credits below DKK 25 million from the beginning of next year. The change applies to...

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has appointed Hervé Le Corre as the new global head of infrastructure finance. He will be based in Paris and take...

Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) has signed agreements to build, operate and finance the $6.4 billion Liwa Plastic Industries Complex (LPIC)...

Singapore based aircraft lessor, Transportation Partners, has issued a $143.7 million bond guaranteed by French export credit agency (ECA) Coface to refinance 10 ATR...

The US dollar remains the dominant currency in global payments, accounting for 51.9% of currency usage overall by value, according to SWIFT. But flows of the Chinese...

Swiss-based traders Trafigura and Vitol, along with France's Total, were among 21 companies handed crude oil term lifting contracts for 2016 by Nigerian National...

Standard Chartered and DBS Bank have teamed up to develop a blockchain platform for trade finance in Singapore. The distributed ledger technology is designed to speed...

More than 50 developed and developing country partners at the World Trade Organisation have announced the expansion of the Information Technology Agreement. The move...

IDFC Bank - India's newest bank - has implemented the Global Transaction Banking solution suite by financial technologies group, Intellect Design Arena. The suite...

China has approved a $1.2 billion investment for the mining of 3.8 million tonnes per annum of coal and the setting up of a 660MW coal-fired power plant in Tharparkar,...

German export and project finance bank KfW IPEX-Bank is providing £68 million to support the construction of the Midland Metropolitan Hospital in Birmingham....