The RCF – which matches last year's largest-ever facility secured by the company – was heavily oversubscribed and is indicative of continued lender appetite for the...

On 1 January 2017 the French export credit agency (ECA), Coface, will officially transfer all its activity to Bpifrance. Since 1946 Coface has handled state export credit...

Falling commodity prices have caused shortages in dollar funding for African producers and has led to a greater demand for trade financing from local SMEs.

Kexim last week provided a loan to finance the Prestea-Kumasi power enhancement project in Ghana as South Korea looks to compete with China and Japan for African...

African economies have been suffering of late from low commodity prices. However, the continent's largest trading partner, China, is investing billions – mostly via China...

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...