The New York-based team of ING Capital together with KfW IPEX-Bank have arranged an export finance structure for South Korean Asiana Airlines’ (Asiana) acquisition of one...

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...

Macquarie Group have appointed Guido Musso as managing director for shipping and offshore, within its specialised investment solutions business. Musso is a respected...

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 TXF ECA Finance conference in Paris last week seemed the perfect place to update the market on the findings of the 2015 Exporter Survey. Over the past few months,...

Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California took to the floor of the US Congress to urge legislative action regarding the future of US Ex-Im Bank. Only ten legislative...

Robert Parson and Jonathan Solomon, partners at leading law firm Reed Smith, take a look at the implications for the commodities market of the recent Mercuria v Citigroup...

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%...

The Swedish and Finnish ECAs will support Metso Group in the development of a €1.2 billion bioproduct mill in Finland. The project will take advantage of new...

BPL Global, the insurance broker, has secured the services of Peter von Guretzky-Cornitz as a representative for the business in Germany.

Barclays Bank have appointed Christian Nehk as head of trade and working capital in Germany. Nehk joins the bank from Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) where he worked...

Come the end of June 2015 or thereabouts, assuming deadlines do not slip and even if they do slip by one month or two, one of the greatest prizes for investment and...

Natixis has led a group of international banks in arranging a €1.4 billion project refinancing for Exeltium, the French industrial consortium providing power to a range...

UK-based Markham Rae Trade Capital Partners (MRTCP) has appointed Kah Chye Tan and Sir David Cooksey to the advisory board of MRTCP, thus further expanding the knowledge...

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....

South Africa's state-run logistics and transport company Transnet has secured a ZAR30 billion ($2.4 billion) loan agreement with the China Development Bank (CDB). The...

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

ANZ is expanding its international network with the opening today of a branch in Paris to provide wholesale banking services to French multinational companies doing...