US-headquartered oil and gas exploration and development company, Noble Energy, has successfully arranged a new revolving credit facility (RCF) with a syndicate of...

ABN AMRO is targeting growth in commodity structured inventory products (SIP) in Asia-Pacific with the launch of its first dedicated desk in Singapore. The services will...

Russian fertiliser producer PhosAgro has opened a trading arm in Singapore, opening of PhosAgro Asia, which will focus on sales of mineral fertilisers to countries in...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to provide a €60 million ($81.6 million) loan to Turkey’s Sekerbank, as part of a programme to assist...

Chilean shipping company Compania Sud Americana de Vapores (CSAV) has secured export credit financing with a consortium of banks and Korean agencies to support the...

Russia’s Sberbank has signed a general financing agreement with Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), under which financing amounting to $600 million will be...

Stanbic IBTC Bank, a member of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has signed a collaboration pact with Tata Africa Services and John Deere Financial, whereby Stanbic IBTC Bank will...

There appears to be plenty of personnel movements in the trade finance sector at the present time – some of these we are able to write about, while others are, shall we...

Michael Spiegel, Global Head, Trade Finance and Cash Management at Deutsche Bank speaks to Jonathan Bell of TXF and speculates that supply chain finance may be reaching a...

International law firm King & Spalding has hired Alejandro Jara, former deputy director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as senior counsel in the WTO and...

Swiss-headquartered agri-trading company Ecom Agroindustrial has signed its latest revolving credit facility (RCF), originally launched in August (TXF News 12 August).

Russian aluminium producer Rusal has made changes in its finance directorate and appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO).

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has provided more than ZAR180 million ($18.2 million) financing to a 27MW wind project near Nelson Mandela Bay, Eastern...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has recruited Claudia Slacik as chief banking officer and senior vice president for export finance. She joins US...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) is supporting the purchase of two American-manufactured agricultural aircraft by a Brazilian soybean and...

EKN, Sweden’s export credit agency (ECA) has signed a cooperation agreement with Mexico’s ECA Bancomext. The agreement is a declaration of intention to cooperate to...

Each Monday, we will be sending our weekly market news roundup. This will include a short commentary on the key stories of the week, as well as links to our top picks. We...

Singapore-headquartered, agribusiness group Wilmar International has signed a $2.065 billion term loan facility with a syndicate of international banks. The facility was...

HSBC has recruited Bart Ras to its ranks where he will have the title of global head of business development for the bank’s global trade and receivables finance (GTRF)...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has arranged an A/B loan structure to support the planned expansion of Faurecia, a leading global automotive...