CIT Group, a leading transportation finance company, has today announced that CIT Maritime Finance has arranged a $32 million senior secured credit facility to Norstar...

Matthew Strong has moved from the Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group (JLT) offices in London to take up his new position as head of the credit, political and security (CPS)...

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

Hong Kong-headquartered, commodity trading house Noble Group has today made public the conclusions and results of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) review of Noble's...

Vecron Lordstock Group (VLG), a global structured finance firm specialising in structured trade and project finance, has announced the launching of Vecron Exim, an...

ABN AMRO is continuing to strengthen its energy, commodities & transportation (ECT) division with two senior appointments. The bank has promoted Friso Koopmans as global...

Renewable energy development company SunEdison has secured $160 million financing and started construction on the 110-megawatt (MW) DC Quilapilun solar power plant in...

GAO Capital (GAO) has announced a strategic alliance with Straits Financial Group (Straits) to collaborate on GAO Funds, a multi-strategy fund platform with a focus on...

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.

Gunvor Singapore, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the international commodity trading company, Gunvor Group, has increased its $911.7 million syndicated revolving credit...

Akbank AG, the Frankfurt-based subsidiary of Turkey’s Akbank, today announced the closure of a $205 million-equivalent, dual-currency club loan. The one-year refinancing...

Berry Palmer & Lyle (BPL Global), the specialist credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, is to open a representative office in Dubai as part of the group’s...

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...

Asian American Gas Holdings (AAG Energy) a leading and independent coalbed methane (CBM) producer in China, has secured a $250 million reserve-based lending (RBL)...

Russian iron and steel producer Metalloinvest has signed a new $750 million pre-export finance (PXF) facility with a club of international banks. TXF News understands the...

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...

Malta-headquartered trade finance bank, FIMBank has appointed Murali Subramanian as its new chief executive officer (CEO). The change comes following a seven-month period...

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...

MOST INNOVATIVE ECA/PROJECT FINANCE DEAL OF THE YEAR Ollie Gordon examines Indonesia's Sarulla Geothermal Power Plant project financing, which charts new territory for...