The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) held its annual trade facilitation programme (TFP) trade finance forum in London on the 22nd and 23rd of...

EssDOCS, the provider of electronic documentation solutions within shipping and trade, has opened its first regional Americas headquarters office in Hoboken, New Jersey.

The global transaction services business at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has published its annual report on the Latin America market, entitled Driving Growth in...

In announcing its half-year financials, Standard Bank has highlighted a $79 million write-down from its exposure to a suspected metal financing fraud in China.

Six more global banks have signed up to jointly develop SWIFT’s Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry, a centralised repository that maintains a standardised set of...

The number of Agricultural Investment Funds (AIFs) has increased significantly over the past decade, alongside an increase in the world’s population and food demand....

TXF talks with several Asia-Pacific heads of export finance about trends and prospects for the business line in the region.

Hesham Zakai analyses the results of the inaugural ICC export finance benchmarking survey.

Jonathan Bell talks with Jonathan Joseph-Horne, head of export & agency finance for EMEA within the global trade finance department, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation...

Mars UK is changing its business payment terms, doubling the length of time it can take to pay suppliers to 120 days from 60 days.

Commodity producers, traders and financiers gathered in Amsterdam last week for TXF's inaugural Natural Resources & Commodities Finance conference. Held at the Beurs van...

Global trade and foreign direct investments have seen dramatic changes in the 80 years since the Berne Union was founded. Not surprisingly, the Berne Union itself has...

An arguably common theme in medium- and long-term (MLT) export finance circles today is that full implementation of Basel III will elicit the end of commercial banks as...

Export credit agencies (ECAs) and development finance institutions (DFIs) have very different purposes, mandates and in the case of multilateral institutions, ownership...

Oruro, Bolivia sits on the High Andean Plain 180 km south-east of La Paz. As the sun rose over this bucolic community of miners on 9 February, 2007, soldiers of the...

Jonathan Bell talks with Andrew Voysey, director, finance sector platforms, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), about the Banking...

The Sabine Pass Liquefaction LNG project marked a turning point in energy projects and their associated financing in North America. Jonathan Bell talks with Federico...

Saudi Arabian telecommunications company Mobily (Etihad Etisalat) has agreed two new financings amounting to SAR2.1 billion ($560 million) backed by the export credit...

Standard Chartered (StanChart) has arranged two loans totalling €160 million ($215 million) for Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), Indonesia’s national electricity company,...

The differences between export credit agencies was a prevailing topic of conversation at the TXF ECA Finance conference in Paris