Strong takes up the reigns as head of CPS Risk at JLT in Chicago
Matthew Strong has moved from the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) offices in London to take up his new position as head of the credit, political and security (CPS)...
Matthew Strong has moved from the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) offices in London to take up his new position as head of the credit, political and security (CPS)...
Hong Kong-headquartered, commodity trading house Noble Group has today made public the conclusions and results of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) review of Noble's...
Jonathan Bell reviews this year’s Ghana Cocobod financing, analyses the record of pricing, and looks at the prospect of further value-added for African soft commodities.
David Viney, at Finacity Corporation, takes a close look at the management of working capital and how companies can use working capital flexibility as a means of...
As of midnight last night the charter for Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) officially expired, as no new vote on its reathorisation had taken place in...
The final Cole Commission report in relation to changing UK export culture was released today. The independently commissioned report is an action plan for the UK...
XL Catlin has promoted Joe Blenkinsopp to the position of chief underwriting officer for its political risk and trade credit (PRTC) team. He is based in London.
Today, the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) formally announced the close of the senior phase of its annual pre-export financing for the 2015-2016 cocoa crop. The financing was...
JLT Specialty Insurance Services (JLT Specialty USA), a US subsidiary of multinational insurer Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group, today announced the appointment of several...
Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California took to the floor of the US Congress to urge legislative action regarding the future of US Ex-Im Bank. Only ten legislative...
Houston-headquartered oil and gas exploration and production company Apache Corporation has signed a new credit agreement with a group of international bank lenders...
BEST SOFT COMMODITIES FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Jonathan Bell reviews how Rabobank led the first structured inventory financing for Australia’s GrainCorp.
The United Kingdom’s (UK) export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), has set-up an innovative, new online and interactive guide to help credit insurance brokers work...
The US’ House of Democrats today set in motion a process to bypass the House Republican leadership that would force a vote on legislation to the extend the charter of the...
DTEK, the largest Ukrainian power company, has completed negotiations regarding the restructuring of its $200 million Eurobond, redemption for which was due in April.
In a major milestone for global trade finance and cross-border payments, BHP Billiton, Westpac, Cargill and ANZ have achieved the first ever CargoDocs BPO+ transaction.
US multinational conglomerate General Electric (GE) has announced it will sell off the bulk of assets in its sprawling financial arm GE Capital by 2018, as it looks to...
Dutch commodities trader Vitol Holding (Vitol) is seeking to secure a $470 million guarantee from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) for an equity...
FIMBank group has recently announced its financial results for 2014, in which it posts a pre-tax loss of $53.43 million. This compares to a pre-tax loss of $6.4 million...
The Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh) has secured $5.168 billion worth of project financing for its integrated oil refinery and petrochemical plant...