When considering challenges faced by farmers in the Caribbean – of which there are many – it is important to appreciate first the breadth of the region, says Niko...

With the vast ocean of financing required in African agriculture, banks alone – at least in the current climate – are insufficient. The same was true of Brazil and the...

Key innovations and technologies are helping to drive change across Africa’s agricultural value chains, from mobile payment systems to centralised information registries....

Singaporean shipping company Pacific International Lines has utilised Bolero’s cloud platform technology for an electronic bill of lading (eBL) as part of a BHP Billiton...

Global trade grew by 3.1% in 2013, in line with world GDP, although improvements across the globe were uneven and bore signs of deceleration, according to the latest data...

An aggressive ramping up of export credit activity by major ECAs and the increasing participation by non-OECD members in the financing space traditionally occupied by the...

Finacity has acted as advisor to CreditCircle, a peer-to-peer loans specialist, in a loan origination programme recently closed between CreditCircle and a regional bank...

German export credit agency KfW IPEX - Bank is providing finance for the supply of raw materials into Germany and the rest of Europe in the form of a $100 million loan...

Raiffeisen Factoring is to receive a €20 million ($27.2 million) loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which the company will use to...

TXF conducted a survey of participants at the ECA/DFI Finance Conference in Paris earlier this month, for the second consecutive year. Here are the results.

Russia’s state-owned gas company Gazprom has moved Ukraine’s Naftogaz to a prepay arrangement, effective earlier today, meaning the country will only receive gas supplies...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is pushing the need for more factoring across Africa, stressing that the lack of factoring services is hindering small-to...

Germany’s KfW IPEX - Bank is financing the export of equipment to Turkey’s steel manufacturer Kardemir with an ECA-covered loan of €140 million ($190 million).

International aircraft leasing company Avolon has filed documents to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering (IPO).

HSBC veteran Stuart Tait has been selected to take over as head of the bank’s global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) division, replacing James Emmett. Emmett will...

Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has expanded its London team with the appointed of Hayden Baker as senior financial institutions (FI) underwriter, regional...

The Berne Union has appointed Kai Preugschat as its new secretary general, filling a gap at the head of the secretariat following Peter Jones’s retirement in November...

Hesham Zakai talks with David Godfrey, chief executive officer of UK Export Finance, about the turnaround which the agency has undergone in the last five years.

Hesham Zakai analyses the results of the inaugural ICC export finance benchmarking survey.

Hesham Zakai assesses the impact of the Russia-Ukraine political problems on trade.