The Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim) has signed a $100 million line of credit agreement with the Nigerian government for the financing of three energy projects in...

Agricultural commodity trading company Olam International has secured a $2.2 billion unsecured revolving credit facility (RCF).

Belgian-incorporated metals and mining company Nyrstar has signed a binding agreement for the final funding and support package for the redevelopment of the Port Pirie...

Russian metals and mining company Norilsk Nickel has signed a $200 million unsecured loan with ING Commercial Bank (Russia).

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has launched renminbi (RMB) cross-border cash pooling for multinational companies (MNCs) registered in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone...

Malta-headquartered FIMBank has appointed Maarten van Alkemade as head of its trade finance department. A Dutch national, van Alkemade joins FIMBank from Coalogic,...

First Quantum Minerals has closed the syndication of its $2.5 billion five-year term loan and revolving facility, which was increased to $3 billion through...

Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking (SG CIB) has promoted Isabelle Roux-Sharpe as the new head of the export finance business units and project team. The...

Orpic (Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company) and a consortium of 21 international and national financial institutions have signed a $2.8 billion umbrella...

Jonathan Bell, editor-in-chief at TXF, talks with Dan Riordan, president of the Berne Union, about taking the organisation forward in its 80th year.

It is now over a year since it became apparent that a major coffee rust outbreak was developing over a wide area of Latin America, ranging from Mexico in the north, to...

Having turned their attention further towards developing economies to compensate for a lack of demand from traditional western markets following the global financial...

Export credit is a tool which has been used for decades to support exports in a world where the main driver of economic growth has been international trade. The need for...

Export-oriented economies benefit from new jobs, more innovation, reduced welfare costs and economic stability. Creating growth through trade is an elemental part of the...

An arguably common theme in medium- and long-term (MLT) export finance circles today is that full implementation of Basel III will elicit the end of commercial banks as...

When I first worked for Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (Nexi) during 2003 to 2006, seconded from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan as the head...

Oruro, Bolivia sits on the High Andean Plain 180 km south-east of La Paz. As the sun rose over this bucolic community of miners on 9 February, 2007, soldiers of the...

The world’s ECAs have been and remain a vital element when piecing together funding for renewable energy. Denmark's export credit agency, EKF, is an active partner with a...

The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has signed an agreement with commercial banks to move towards Indonesian rupiah financing for Japanese-affiliated...

UK Export Finance (UKEF), the export credit agency (ECA) of the United Kingdom has today officially launched its £5 billion ($6.86 billion) export refinancing facility...