Italian export credit agency (ECA) SACE has signed a technical cooperation agreement to increase the capacity of the Iranian ECA, Export Guarantee Fund of Iran (EGFI).

India’s Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries (RIL), has signed a $750 million loan backed by Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-sure). This...

Spanish bank BBVA has appointed Francisco Javier Fernández de Trocóniz as its new head of global trade finance & international financial institutions, replacing the...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) honoured the most successful participants in its Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) 2014 in an award ceremony...

Russian state corporation Vnesheconombank (VEB) has increased business with Chinese institutions by signing a $8 billion framework credit agreement with China Development...

Trade credit insurer Euler Hermes has appointed three regional chief executive officers (CEO) to its German, Austrian, Swiss (DACH), World Agency and French offices, and...

HSH Nordbank has today signed a cooperation agreement with the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) and Busan, Korea's second-largest city after the capital Seoul, which...

The Italian export credit agency, SACE, and China Export & Credit Insurance Corporation (Sinosure), have today signed a reinsurance agreement aimed at facilitating the...

UniCredit announced today that it has combined its global capital markets and loan syndication businesses to create a new global syndicate and capital markets platform to...

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has announced four major financing initiatives increasing Russia’s trade and economic cooperation with China. The development of...

Following a global tender, essDOCS, a leading enabler of paperless trade, has has won the contract to develop and deliver a document preparation (Doc Prep) solution for...

A special report from TXF Data presenting an overview of key commodities market transactions.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has provided two financial packages, totalling $216 million, for the construction of the Colonia Arias and Valentines wind...

German export credit agency (ECA) Euler Hermes has signed a distribution agreement with Al Hilal Takaful – the takaful insurance subsidiary of the state-owned and fully...

ICBC (London) has signed a new dual-tranche $1 billion term loan agreement with an international bank syndicate. The funds will be used for general corporate purposes.

International law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has expanded its energy practice with the recruitment of Jayson Marks. He joins the firm’s oil and gas group as a...

Croatia’s third largest bank by assets, Erste Bank Croatia, has joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) in...

A lack of capacity in the financial sector is severely impacting the trading potential of poor countries, says Roberto Azevêdo, the sixth director general of the World...

Swiss-based commodities investment manager Scipion Group has appointed Taran Bains as its new head of sales and marketing.

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) has teamed up with international financial services association BAFT to provide a joint, industry-standard legal...