HSBC has just released its latest Trade Forecast report, which notes that advanced economies look set to sustain global commerce through 2016 before an emerging market...

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...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are teaming up to support further expansion of Grupa Azoty, Poland’s...

Finacity Corporation (Finacity), the receivables finance company, has announced it has served as advisor – and will serve as ongoing reporting administrator – for a new...

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...

Brazilian state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) has signed and closed a $5 billion funding agreement with China Development Bank (CDB).

Commodity trading company Trafigura Beheer BV has announced that Jeremy Weir, chief executive officer, is assuming responsibility for the metals and minerals trading...

Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) has appointed Percy Batliwalla as its new head of global trade and supply chain finance.

Singapore-headquartered Puma Energy, a global mid and downstream energy company, has closed its revolving credit (RCF) and term loan facilities amounting to $1.25...

HSBC has appointed Tan Siew Meng the newly created role of regional head global trade and receivables finance (GTRF) Asia-Pacific, with effect from 1 July 2015. This is a...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) honoured the most successful participants in its Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) 2014 in an award ceremony...

UniCredit announced today that it has combined its global capital markets and loan syndication businesses to create a new global syndicate and capital markets platform to...

The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has announced four major financing initiatives increasing Russia’s trade and economic cooperation with China. The development of...

The third subsidiary of the Texas Freeport LNG Expansion (Freeport LNG) project, FLNG Liquefaction 3 (FLIQ3), has successfully closed $3.692 billion worth of secured...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Azerbaijan have signed an agreement for a $1 billion investment programme to rehabilitate and expand the country’s...

Ross Jones, senior product manager, Treasury Services EMEA, BNY Mellon, discusses how banks are left with little choice but to reassess their strategies and up their game...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a public-private partnership (PPP) co-advisory agreement with eight global commercial banks. The move is aimed at accelerating...

Oil major Royal Dutch Shell has signed a new £10.07 billion ($15.24 billion) bridge credit facility with core relationship banks, as part of its financing related to the...

Lundin Petroleum AB (Lundin Petroleum) has announced that its subsidiary Lundin Norway AS (Lundin Norway) has successfully secured a NOK4.5 billion ($596.6 million)...

Seventy percent of companies in the Asia-Pacific region experienced overdue payment of some form in 2014, the highest levels in three years, according to an annual survey...