Bridging the centuries of navigating and financing trade at ITFA Porto
The heady history of port helped marry tradition and innovation at ITFA’s in person annual trade finance event in Porto. TXF’s Katharine Morton kept her feet steady while...
The heady history of port helped marry tradition and innovation at ITFA’s in person annual trade finance event in Porto. TXF’s Katharine Morton kept her feet steady while...
Companies are receiving greater scrutiny from auditors over IFRS balance sheet accounting treatment of new and existing factoring facilities. It is not that the...
Lenders have responded strongly to the new breed of power purchase agreements on offer in Mexican renewables. But the market is only likely to get more merchant. TXF...
Four presidential decrees rifled Indonesia’s private power market this year as PLN was given more powers over developers when awarding IPP concessions. While there is...
The sheer volume of equity chasing infrastructure assets is pushing up valuations. But debt markets have a much more limited role in driving them up. Is the infra market...
Pemex kicked off 2017 with a record-breaking eurobond and the announcement of a halving of losses in 2016. The debt-ridden oil producer has even put in place an...
Virtual currency Bitcoin has been deemed more likely to be a speculative investment rather than a medium of exchange according to a new report by SWIFT. The instigator of...
Adrian Katz, CEO of Finacity, tells TXF’s Ollie Gordon why trade receivables securitisations could well be the answer to the trade finance industry’s leaking capacity.
At a time when digitisation, regulation and new liquidity are on the rise, Hesham Zakai explores how these factors are changing the trade-finance landscape.
Brazil’s state-run oil company, Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras), has been charged $2.06 billion for corruption-related costs and $14.8 billion for impairment in the...
HSBC has continued its recent efforts to bolster its global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) team, creating a new chief commercial officer (COO) role which Adrian...
The London-based specialist insurer, Beazley Group (Beazley), has announced it will open an office in the Dubai Financial Centre (DIFC) to underwrite political risk,...
Bank Leumi (UK) has appointed Michael Rolfe as its new head of commodity finance.
Finacity Corporation (Finacity), the receivables finance company, has appointed Judith Schrecker as its new board director.
Malta-headquartered FIMBank, has announced that it is entering the Greek market and will be providing a comprehensive range of trade finance and banking solutions,...
Lloyds Bank has made three new additions to its global transaction banking (GTB) team. The three appointments are Keith Softly, Stephen Everett and Francesca Corscadden,...
Finacity Corporation (Finacity), the receivable finance company, has appointed David Viney in a move to expand its global client coverage.
Experienced structured finance specialist to bolster Finacity's receivables finance business throughout Latin America
ANZ has appointed Mary MacLeod chief financial officer (CFO), international and institutional banking.
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...
The mood music at the 11th edition of the TXF Amsterdam Global Commodity Finance event was downbeat. Spawned by amplifying tariff concerns, limited debt appetite from corporates and the impact of Basel IV on lenders, there was a multitude of macroeconomic and geopolitical factors setting the sombre tone.