Value chains like livestock and dairy face a unique set of challenges, giving them a reputation as being higher risk than those for soft commodities like grains.

In a landmark development for agri-trade in Eastern Africa, the commodity-focused East Africa Exchange (EAX) has been officially launched. The regional commodity exchange...

KfW IPEX-Bank is providing a loan of £56.5 million ($96.8 million) for the Crook Hill Wind Farm project, north of Rochdale in east Lancashire, UK. The bank is acting as...

Governments in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries have a huge responsibility to support agriculture, which in many cases employs more than half the population and...

The establishment and launch of the eurozone’s first offshore clearing hub for renminbi (RMB) trade settlement is anticipated to be a major boost to European corporates,...

Warehouse receipt finance is spreading fast, giving smaller traders and bigger farmers or cooperatives the chance to tap finance immediately while they protect their...

Ma’aden Wa’ad Al-Shamal Phosphate Company (MWSPC), an affiliate of the Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) has signed loan facilities for a total of SR18.9 billion ($5...

Swiss-headquartered, energy trading company Mercuria Energy has signeda $2.65 billion revolving credit facility (RCF), with the oversubscription on the initial launch...

As the most extensive urban metro system in the Caribbean and only the second in existence, Santo Domingo’s Metro is an ambitious programme to modernise transport...

Tony Elumelu is chairman of Nigeria-based investment company Heirs Holdings and conglomerate Transcorp. He is also founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, a philanthropic...

Japan’s largest trading company, Mitsubishi Corporation, has secured a $390 million direct loan from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to partially...

Today, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released its Trade Register Report 2014. The empirical evidence from the report points to the fact that trade and...

UK Export Finance (UKEF) has added the offshore renminbi (RMB) to its list of supported currencies as it looks to structure its first renminbi supported deal.

Tullow Oil has refinanced its NOK2 billion ($330 million) Norwegian exploration revolving credit facility (RCF), and at the same time it has successfully increased the...

Finland’s Konecranes has won a landmark export order with Indonesian state-owned port operator PT Pelabuhan Indonesia III (Pelindo III) for 11 automated rubber tired...

Hesham Zakai talks with David Godfrey, chief executive officer of UK Export Finance, about the turnaround which the agency has undergone in the last five years.

TXF talks with several Asia-Pacific heads of export finance about trends and prospects for the business line in the region.

Hesham Zakai assesses the impact of the Russia-Ukraine political problems on trade.

Commonality among export credit agencies can be found in procurement of home country goods and services, the heart of this type of financing.

TXF examines the recently launched export refinancing facility by UKEF.