Annual business volumes of many insurers and banks are more often than not driven by project finance and large corporate loan transactions. However, when looking at the...

Over the past four years the global level of risk has been relatively stable, notwithstanding differences between the advanced economies and the emerging markets: the...

The world continues to present insurers with lots of challenges. The global financial crisis hit insurers hard and we are still making strong recoveries. In the old...

A new report released by BNY Mellon explores the influence of fintech alliances on global payments, and suggest that these changes taking place in the payments space...

Jonathan Bell talks with David Hennah, head of trade and supply chain finance, transaction banking, Misys, about the burning issues of regulation and compliance,...

Charles Berry, chairman of specialist insurance broker BPL Global, argues that as exporters and banks now often have a choice between ECA and private-sector cover, ECAs...

A funding crisis is developing in the commodities market as producers and traders, particularly of the small and mid-sized variety, struggle to access the type and volume...

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) group, has signed a $3 billion umbrella financing framework...

The Middle East was the top destination for export finance in the first half of the year, surging 18% year-on-year – TXF’s H1 Export Finance Report revealed this week.

Natural rubber supply chain manager Halcyon Agri Corporation has successfully completed a refinancing of up to $413 million, replacing existing debts with a mix of term...

US-headquartered, Castleton Commodities International (CCI) has closed two committed credit facilities totalling $3.75 billion. The funds will be used for general...

The boards of the two international factoring associations - Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Factors Group (IFG) – have put forward a formal proposal...

Oman-based drilling rig operator Dalma Energy International has secured a $77.5 million financing arranged by Bank Sohar and Qatar National Bank (QNB).

Cristiane Gomes, head of sales & relationship management, South America, BNY Mellon Treasury Services, explores the intensification of economic ties between China and...

International law firm Simmons & Simmons is expanding its trade finance practice with the appointment of Omar Al-Ali who has joined the firm’s London office this week as...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) has appointed Dr Benedict Oramah to be the next president of the continental multilateral trade finance institution. He will take...

This week, ICC Austria has been hosting its 10th annual Trade Finance Week. TXF spoke to Andrea Hauptmann, head of guarantees at Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) and...

ANZ is expanding its international network with the opening today of a branch in Paris to provide wholesale banking services to French multinational companies doing...

The Berne Union and the associated Prague Club have revealed that in 2014 members’ new business reached close to $2 trillion. The figures demonstrate the strong role the...

Deutsche Bank’s Daniel Schmand is the International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Banking Commission new chairman. Here, he sets out his vision for the trade finance...