Over the past two years, Brazil has suffered from its worst recession since the 1930s. However, since the appointment of conservative President Michel Temer, Latin...

Kexim will provide a $2.5 billion direct loan to a Korean Electric Power Corporation (Kepco)-led consortium to fund the construction of four 1,400 MW nuclear reactors at...

JBIC has announced plans to fund infrastructure projects in Indonesia without guarantees from the Indonesian government. The 'new trend' makes Japanese exports more...

India and Nepal look to fortify trade ties that have come under strain in recent years, as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attempts to implement his 'Neighbourhood...

Exporters across a number of industries have seen gaps emerge between them on the cost of their financing. According to TXF/Clevis Research’s 2016 Exporter Survey,...

In a sign that trade relations between Russia and Cuba are stepping up, Russia's ECA, EXIAR, has agreed to guarantee the bulk of a $4 billion finance agreement for Cuban...

Exporters have reduced their ratings of banks in 2016 following a challenging year in the industry as the regulatory burden takes its toll. Diminished results across key...

ECAs will be key to the UAE 2021 Vision infrastructure investment programme as commercial bank liquidity feels the pinch from low oil prices.

The UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) has been urged by a letter from 92 NGOs to blacklist coal-funding ECAs from its funds. However, one market observer says ECAs should not...

In recent years, European ECAs and development institutions have been playing an increasing role in financing wind farm projects around the world. Their involvement is...

Direct lending by ECAs based on floating interest rates, rather than the CIRR equivalent, is the source of export finance bankers' discontent, says a US Ex-Im senior...

Despite the economic uncertainty in Angola, EDC has agreed a financing for the country which will contribute to the completion of one of the final steps to opening a new...

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...