Russian fertiliser producer PhosAgro has opened a trading arm in Singapore, opening of PhosAgro Asia, which will focus on sales of mineral fertilisers to countries in...

Chilean shipping company Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) has secured export credit financing with a consortium of banks and Korean agencies to support the...

Russia’s Sberbank has signed a general financing agreement with Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), under which financing amounting to $600 million will be...

Swiss-headquartered agri-trading company Ecom Agroindustrial has signed its latest revolving credit facility (RCF), originally launched in August (TXF News 12 August).

Russian aluminium producer Rusal has made changes in its finance directorate and appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO).

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has provided more than ZAR180 million ($18.2 million) financing to a 27MW wind project near Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has recruited Claudia Slacik as chief banking officer and senior vice president for export finance. She joins US...

HSBC has recruited Bart Ras to its ranks where he will have the title of global head of business development for the bank’s global trade and receivables finance (GTRF)...

Energy trading company Gunvor has closed the $675 million long-term secured financing facility for the company’s flagship investment - the Ust Luga Oil Products Terminal...

BNP Paribas (BNPP) and KfW IPEX-Bank have arranged and signed export credit financing amounting to $98 million for the construction of the Tuban 2 cement plant in...

India’s YES Bank has successfully closed a loan facility equivalent to $255 million. The facility will be used for general corporate purposes and trade financing for the...

The UK’s Lloyds Bank has signed a partnership agreement with Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) to team in providing enhanced services to its clients importing from...

South African banks Nedbank and Rand Merchant Bank are to provide Aureus Mining with a $100 million debt financing package to develop its flagship New Liberty Gold...

Despite turmoil in much of the Middle East, the EMEA region has a wealth of opportunities for growth in trade finance. TXF talks with Sameer Sehgal and Anurag Chaudhary...

Jonathan Bell examines the challenges the trade finance sector needs to confront, and find ways to work with, if it is to be a truly profitable business in the years...

TXF talks to Citi about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.

TXF talks to BNP Paribas about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.

TXF talks to Standard Chartered Bank about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.

In a landmark transaction and development for Nigeria and West Afirca, Nigeria’s Dangote Industries has signed a medium-term $3.3 billion loan agreement with a consortium...

International commodities trading and logistics company Trafigura, has opened a new Russia-based business - Trafigura Eurasia, which the company sees as a vital cog in...