Iran has set a target to install 5,000 MW of renewable energy capacity by 2021, and according to one lawyer, export credit agencies will be key to achieving that goal.

The UK government introduced dramatic cuts to renewable energy subsidies in August, just a month before Finland's ECA, Finnvera, closed a £100 million financing for the...

South Korea's ECA, Kexim, posted a net loss of $838.6 million for the first half of the year after bad debt provisions surged due to over exposure to struggling...

Although the total volume of the ECA finance market has reduced in recent years, in the first half of this year ECA direct lending was already $1.7 billion up on the...

At the end of last month, Finnvera and NIB signed a $225 million facility that will be onlent to a eucalyptus pulp mill project in Brazil. The deal represents the first...

Global trade numbers might be floundering, but the quality of export finance is gradually gaining in appreciation, especially since Spain's introduction of export finance...

BPL Global's Gina Fitzgerald introduces the concept of private trade credit & political risk insurance.

Due to the political and economic uncertainty surrounding Pakistan, international financing has been hard to come by for the South Asian country. Nonetheless,in July...

Japan's latest pledge to commit $30 billion in public and private support for infrastructure development in Africa is a "politically motivated" move to ensure the Asian...

The Australian government's push to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is beginning to bear fruit, as last month Australia's export credit agency (ECA),...

A recent report carried out by Nottingham University investigates the impact of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) on US exports particularly in the...

Over recent years, the drumbeat of market and media interest in blockchain applications has increased, with ever more reports of the disruptive promises of the new...

Earlier this month, Chinese container shipping conglomerate Coscocs signed an $18 billion financing agreement with China Exim to fund the construction of more than 50...

Earlier this year, Poland's government announced its Responsible Development Strategy in a bid to gear up the country's economy to reach new levels of growth. Under the...

Gunvor has closed an oversubscribed revolving credit facility. The Swiss trader has drawn new banks into the syndicated facility and increased the size of the deal...

Mauricio Munguia, Latin America desk head at Santander, Stephen Cartwright, the head of Department for International Trade (DIT) in Mexico, and Angus Murray,...

Power is the export finance’s largest sector in H1 of 2016, accounting for 44.1% of the market, with significant growth in both coal-fired and conventional power.

Commerzbank has expanded and repositioned its export finance department in order to become an even bigger player in the ECA market, as Africa and Russia look set to...

The Middle East is the largest export finance borrower market in the first half of the year, with a 35.3% share of the global market; the export finance community cites...

The Japanese ECA, JBIC, topped the table by covered volume with 25 transactions totalling $9.68 billion in H1 of 2016, with the German ECA Euler Hermes in second place...