Independent US-based energy company Venoco has entered into a new $75 million term loan facility with Deutsche Bank. The company will use the proceeds from the new...

New York-listed crude carrier owner and operator Navios Maritime Midstream Partners has closed a $205 million term loan facility with a club of international banks. The...

Norway’s export credit agency, GIEK, together with funding body Export Credit Norway have arranged financing of €6.7 million ($7.5 million) for the export of a fish farm...

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...

Natixis and pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (pbb) have co-arranged the financing of three Airbus aircraft for Turkish Airlines. The transaction is unusually financed in Swiss...

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...

Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company Sibur has made significant progress with the financing for its ZapSibNeftekhim petrochemical project, through an...

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...

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 African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) is to introduce a special guarantee facility to enable African processing plants secure long-term export contracts with bank...

The 2015 CFO Outlook Asia survey released by Bank of America Merrill Lynch reveals that more chief financial officers (CFOs) in Asia-Pacific are confident in their...

This week, ICC Austria has been hosting its 10th annual Trade Finance Week. TXF spoke to Andrea Hauptmann, head of guarantees at Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) and...

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....

Export Development Canada (EDC) today announced the signing of an agreement with Colombia’s National Development Bank (Financiera de Desarrollo Nacional -FDN) that will...

Russian potash producer Uralkali has announced the upscaling of its new pre-export financing (PXF) with the facility now amounting to $630 million. The increase of the...

Factors Chain International (FCI), a leading network of global factoring companies, is reporting strong growth in cross-border factoring in selective markets. The group...

The Berne Union and the associated Prague Club have revealed that in 2014 members’ new business reached close to $2 trillion. The figures demonstrate the strong role the...