A lot can happen in 12 months. But don’t take our word for it, just ask those in the export finance industry who have set themselves – or been set – on new career paths...

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has appointed Hervé Le Corre as the new global head of infrastructure finance. He will be based in Paris and take...

The International Chamber of Commerce’s (ICC) Banking Commission has released its 2015 Trade Register. The report, the fifth of its kind, tripled the value of...

TXF has announced a one-day conference dedicated solely to US Ex-Im following the North American ECA’s recent reauthorisation.

Hiren Singharay, managing director, syndications – Europe, Middle East, Africa and South Asia - for Standard Chartered has decided to leave the bank and the commercial...

HSBC’s highly-regarded global head of commodity & structured trade finance (CSTF), Jean-Francois Lambert, has left the bank. The departure comes as part of a structural...

Rabobank and export credit insurer Atradius Dutch State Business (Atradius DSB) have combined to help arrange project financing for two onshore wind farms in Finland....

At the Berne Union - the International Union of Credit & Investment Insurers - and Prague Club annual general meeting this week in Shanghai - hosted by China’s official...

An export credit financing agreement totalling ¥69.24 billion ($563.2 million) has been signed by international banks and Japanese agencies to fund the importation and...

Helen Castell at TXF talks to some of the world’s largest borrowers about what ECA finance means to them, and why things like fixed-rate financing, long-term framework...

The North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) came into effect on 1 January 1994, and with it arrived a fundamental structural change. In fact, Mexico embraced an...

Geopolitics and international conflict were identified by the WEF at the beginning of 2015, as the primary risks facing business in the world today. However, the...

The valley on the shores of the saline Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is sometimes described as extraterrestrial. The area is a desert, dry and sparsely populated, mostly...

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.

Tartaruga MV29 (TARMV29), a company incorporated in the Netherlands in which MODEC, Mitsui & Co, Mitsui OSK Lines, and Marubeni Corporation have equity stakes, has signed...

Markel International, the specialist insurer, has appointed Savita Mascarenhas as underwriter for its expanding trade credit operations in Dubai.

The Italian export credit agency, SACE, confirmed today that it would be providing $300 million of insurance cover related to the floating production storage and...

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.

According to a new research report from East & Partners Asia (E&P Asia), international and regional banks have a major opportunity to exploit the trade finance needs of...

ABN AMRO is continuing to strengthen its energy, commodities & transportation (ECT) division with two senior appointments. The bank has promoted Friso Koopmans as global...