Commodity trading company Trafigura and Singapore LNG Corporation (SLNG), operator of the country’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, have signed a storage...

Independent energy and commodities trading group Mercuria Energy Trading has signed a $2.5 billion multi-currency revolving credit facility (RCF). Following strong demand...

International law firm King & Spalding are set to open an office in Tokyo, the firm's eighteenth office overall and tenth office outside the United States. The new Tokyo...

Today, the Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) formally announced the close of the senior phase of its annual pre-export financing for the 2015-2016 cocoa crop. The financing was...

UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK’s export credit agency, has released its 2014-2015 annual report which reveals a strong performance through the year by the agency with a...

Cristiane Gomes, head of sales & relationship management, South America, BNY Mellon Treasury Services, explores the intensification of economic ties between China and...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) has appointed Dr Benedict Oramah to be the next president of the continental multilateral trade finance institution. He will take...

North and Latin-American gold producer Goldcorp has increased its existing credit facility from $2 billion to $3 billion, as well as extending the term to June 2020,...

June is a month that is always jam-packed with highly-publicised sporting accomplishments. With leagues and tournaments of every variety coming to a climatic end in the...

Italian export credit agency SACE has agreed to guarantee a total of €575 million ($648 million) loans to be issued to Russia’s agrichemical company EuroChem to build a...

The central bank of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has reached an agreement with the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) whereby banks will receive up to 50%...

Houston-headquartered oil and gas exploration and production company Apache Corporation has signed a new credit agreement with a group of international bank lenders...

Russian iron and steel producer Metalloinvest has signed a €267 million ($297 million) export credit agency (ECA) backed agreement with a club of international banks....

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has finally formally signed two loans and a letter of agreement for the development of Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh airport and to support...

BEST OVERALL ECA/PROJECT FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Dalia Gebrial reviews a complex multisource finance bringing seven export credit agencies together in Turkey.

BEST SOFT COMMODITIES FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Jonathan Bell reviews how Rabobank led the first structured inventory financing for Australia’s GrainCorp.

Luxembourg-headquartered commodity trading company, Traxys Sarl (Traxys) has signed and closed a $1 billion borrowing base facility. The funds will be used to refinance...

BEST AFRICAN ECA FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon examines the details of ERC’s Awash-Weldia/Hara Gebeya Railway project in Ethiopia.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im), along with the Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC), is providing a $55...

OMV Petrom, the largest oil and gas producer in South-Eastern Europe, has signed a revolving credit facility (RCF) amounting to €1 billion ($1.1 billion). The funding has...