The global economy finds itself in an exceptional position: while world GDP continues to grow at a healthy rate, world trade is declining and facing some gusty headwinds....

China has today officially launched its new global clearing platform for real time renminbi (RMB) settlement, known as the Cross Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS),...

Banks, rather than “thinly-capitalised” fintech providers, are still best placed to provide supply chain finance (SCF) programmes to corporate buyers, Citi’s EMEA supply...

Credit insurer Atradius has chosen the financial solution provided by Bolero to efficiently process corporate transactions for corporate customers in its surety bonds...

Sanctions on Russia and Crimea have introduced additional regulatory and commercial considerations for companies engaging in business transactions with certain parties in...

More small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are seeking to export their goods and services abroad following a government export push in recent years, a couple of...

Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) has today formally signed its annual pre-export receivables backed trade finance facility for a total amount of $1.8 billion. This was the...

Oliver Gordon catches up with some leading figures to discuss whether trade finance is still being unfairly penalised under the Basel III framework.

TXF’s Hesham Zakai ventures into the brave – but not so new – world of supply chain finance vendors and their respective offerings.

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...

CC Solutions' Valerie Colville discusses how the US export credit agency’s charter came to expire on 30 June, what is likely to come next, and what can be done to bring...

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 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have teamed under a co-financing arrangement to arrange and provide $693...

Trade finance specialist Bolero International has appointed former JP Morgan executive Daniel Cotti to its board of directors. In his new role as non-executive director,...

In an announcement today, Deutsche Bank has implemented a Receivables on Behalf Of (ROBO) solution for Siemens Financial Services (SFS) in China, for both intra-group and...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is arranging a $130 million syndicated loan facility in support of Ukraine’s leading grain and oilseeds trader...

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...

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...

According to a new research report from East & Partners Asia (E&P Asia), international and regional banks have a major opportunity to exploit the trade finance needs of...