Russian coal mining company Siberian Coal Energy (Suek) has secured a five-year, $1.5 billion syndicated pre-export finance (PXF) facility. The deal was signed on 28...

First Quantum Minerals (First Quantum) has formally mandated banks to arrange a new $2.5 billion five-year term loan and revolving credit facility. The company has also...

KfW IPEX-Bank and AWAS Aviation Capital have closed the seventh financing under their eight aircraft ECA supported financing facility.

The Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) has set out trade financing solutions aimed at increasing sustainability in the commodity trade sector, in a report entitled...

HSBC has made three appointments to its global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) team, with Gerd Pircher becoming regional head, Latin America; Wei Wei Ng becoming...

Russian fertiliser production company, PhosAgro, has signed a $440.6 million loan package with an international group of banks, supported by the Japanese agencies Japan...

KfW IPEX-Bank and NordLB have teamed to structure export credit agency-backed financing of €194 million ($263.7 million) to finance German power plants to South Korea.

The export credit agencies of Mexico and Italy, Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior (Bancomext) and Sace respectively, have signed a cooperation agreement aimed at...

BBVA has arranged two loans for Enel Green Power (EGP) in Mexico and in Chile in separate loan agreements each valued at $150 million. In the first instance, the bank...

KfW IPEX-Bank has closed the first two transactions under a new three aircraft bilateral financing facility for Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC).

Russia’s Vnesheconombank (VEB) and Natixis of France have led a consortium of international banks in the signing of a credit agreement on extending syndicated loans to...

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) has closed a $1.251 billion multi-tranche syndicated loan facility for the partial financing container ships. The transaction is for...

The Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has signed a $250 million syndicated term loan facility marking its debut in the international syndicated loan market. The...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) and the Export Guarantee and Insurance Corporation (EGAP), the export credit agency of the Czech Republic, have...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has just released its figures for its financial year 2013, which reveal the agency has supported a record number of...

Susanne Kavelaar is due to become the chief representative in Europe for IFC's global trade and supply chain finance programme

According to the Society for Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), China’s renminbi (RMB) overtook the euro as the world’s second most-used trade...

Watson, Farley & Williams (WFW) has appointed Joe Levin as partner in its London office. Levin previously held the position of director of the energy and...

Eastern European growth has laboured as a result of the eurozone crisis. Yet overall economic growth continues to surpass that of Western Europe, says Per Fischer, head...

Indonesian oil and gas production company Energi Mega Persada (ENRG) has secured a new $203 million syndicated loan facility. The loan facility will be used to settle...