The bank that liked to say yes too often, BNDES is under new management and has a new mission: to do more to promote effective infrastructure investment with less money....

Could a 20-digit LEI number help banks cut their KYC and compliance costs while narrowing the SME trade finance gap? Yes – but not until regulators get behind it.

Peter Mulroy, Secretary General of FCI spoke to Katharine Morton at the ICC banking commission annual meeting in Miami about how trust is helping factoring move beyond...

Blended finance techniques have been around for some time. But it is only recently that DFIs and the private sector have begun to give more urgency to the product in a...

The hush that has fallen over the banking markets about derisking correspondent banking relations could be read as meaning derisking is the dog that didn’t bark. Is...

As a growing number of blockchain initiatives start live testing, albeit in controlled environments, trade tech is moving to an even more confusing level – a plethora of...

Daniel Schmand, chair of the ICC Banking Commission and global head of trade finance at Deutsche Bank caught up with TXF’s Katharine Morton at the ICC Annual Meeting in...

Despite a challenging aluminium price environment in 2018, China’s Hangzhou Zhengcai Holding Group tapped the international debt market for the first time with an...

There was solid support for US Ex-Im from legislators from both sides of the US political spectrum at the ECA’s annual conference. But will that support result in any...

As Noble Group looks to force through a controversial restructuring amid lawsuits and media spats with shareholders, what could a new Noble look like? And will regulatory...

With a new report from the World Bank concluding that the participation rate of institutional investors in infrastructure projects remains low, TXF looks at some of the...

The DFI-backed debt for the 7MW PRICO rooftop solar project – only the second power project financing to close in Palestine – is still going to be disbursed despite fresh...

The first structure of its kind within the commodity finance space, Helios Investment Partners’ innovative blend of leveraged finance and trade finance techniques raised...

As Argentina prepares to award the first roads concessions in its ambitious $25 billion-plus PPP programme, bankers are already working with sponsors on plans to raise...

The five-year development finance institution (DFI) funding package for a new oil-fired plant in Guinea might go some way to alleviating the country’s chronic power...

Since the CDP-SACE-SIMEST restructuring in 2012, SACE has transformed from tired state relic into one of the world’s leading providers of export credit cover. It has the...

The Ripple versus SWIFT PR campaign appears to have backfired. But whatever the outcome of this rather artificial headline generator, one thing looks certain –...

Five years on from the Mexico's landmark energy sector reforms, a spate of recent financings – one without DFI backing – support market expectation that the pace of...

Sanjeev Gupta is the man behind the ascent of Liberty House from commodity trading start-up into an international metals and industrials group. And in conversation with...

Having made a splash in the retail and SME banking spaces, a new breed of lender is setting its eyes on the trade finance market. But what are these newbies to...