Charles Berry, chairman of specialist insurance broker BPL Global, argues that as exporters and banks now often have a choice between ECA and private-sector cover, ECAs...

A funding crisis is developing in the commodities market as producers and traders, particularly of the small and mid-sized variety, struggle to access the type and volume...

The Swiss-headquartered Russian agrichemical EuroChem Group AG has signed a $750 million pre-export finance facility with a club of leading international banks. The funds...

Natixis has appointed Jonathan Kim as managing director, head of global infrastructure & projects (GIP) Americas.

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) group, has signed a $3 billion umbrella financing framework...

Louis Taylor has been appointed as the new chief executive officer (CEO) of the United Kingdom’s export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF). He takes up the role in...

Former Nigerian agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina, has today been formally sworn in as the new president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) at a ceremony...

Jin Liqun has been selected as president–designate of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) at the 6th meeting of chief negotiators representing the bank's 57...

In a development that might raise a few eyebrows in the export finance world, Italian export credit agency (ECA) SACE has topped the ECA export finance table in the first...

Global trade growth built up expectations with a healthy recovery following the crisis, but it has since relapsed to a snail-like pace of advancement. Despite their...

Transport has wrestled energy off its throne as the leading sector for export finance in the first half of 2015 – TXF’s H1 Export Finance Report revealed this week.

Kazakhstan-focused copper production company KAZ Minerals has signed a new $50 million revolving credit facility (RCF) with Caterpillar Financial Services (UK) (Cat...

Export finance volumes in the first half of 2015 have tumbled by 28% year-on-year, and by 35% compared to the second half of last year, TXF’s H1 Export Finance Report...

Gazprom’s UK-based subsidiary, Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T) has signed a 364-day $500 million syndicated revolving credit facility (RCF).

Barclays has collaborated with Chinese export credit agency (ECA) Sinosure to arrange $828 million in overall project financing for Zambia’s Maamba Collieries. The...

If prizes were being dished out for corporate success since the turn of the millennium, the big commodity trading houses would be right up there at the front of the...

Jonathan Bell reviews this year’s Ghana Cocobod financing, analyses the record of pricing, and looks at the prospect of further value-added for African soft commodities.

The UK export credit agency UK Export Finance (UKEF) and HSBC have teamed to arrange the first ever offshore renminbi (RMB) financing for an aircraft purchase – in this...

BNP Paribas and Intesa Sanpaolo are providing export credit financing to fund the €306 million ($334.7 million) Itare dam project in Kenya. The project, which is backed...

The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) is committing up to $15 million for the development of the 10.6MW solar plant with 6MW of battery storage at Sandfire...