Global energy and commodities group Mercuria Energy has signed its Asian revolving credit facility (RCF) for a total amount of $1.1 billion. General syndication saw a...

HSBC’s highly-regarded global head of commodity & structured trade finance (CSTF), Jean-Francois Lambert, has left the bank. The departure comes as part of a structural...

The lack of reliable data in the trade finance industry could be contributing to the knowledge gap between industry participants, regulators and institutional investors,...

Concerned about the continuous decline in Indian exports, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government today announced the launch of a 3% interest-subsidy scheme for...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $37 million loan to boost cross-border trade and investment in Laos. The loan, with another $10 million in...

US-based TriLinc Global Impact Fund has approved $9.7 million in trade finance transactions to companies in South Africa and Guatemala. TriLinc provides growth-stage...

Members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have dealt a blow to the coal industry by agreeing to scale back public financing for...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) is helping issuing banks on the continent expand their trade finance operations by approving an $100 million Risk Participation...

Panama's Bank Association - with regional membership of 71 international and domestic banks - has joined SWIFT's Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry. The...

Export credit agency, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC), is expected to provide financing for Indonesia's second land-based liquefied natural gas...

Zinc has dropped to a six-year low as other metals traded near their lowest since at least 2010 amid concerns about faltering demand in China. The plunge in metals has...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is stepping up its support for Egypt's exporters and importers with a $20 million trade facility to...

PostRock Energy, a USA-based crude oil and natural gas group, has seen the borrowing base on its credit facility drop from $76 million to $39 million. The company had...

Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has secured export financing deals with creditors in Britain, Italy, Japan and Austria worth $1.84 billion. The credit will...

USA-based oil and gas group Legacy Reserves has had the borrowing base under its $1.5 billion secured revolving credit facility cut to $900 million from $950...

Banks are braced for higher capital requirements amid an overhaul of market-risk rules by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. The new rules, which will be...

The Export-Import Bank of Korea (Kexim) is extending $183 million in loans to a Myanmar infrastructure modernisation project in a bid to boost business opportunities...

For the 2015 edition of the Perfect 10 Awards, TXF has decided to introduce a brand new accolade: Most Sustainable Deal of the Year.

Flat trade growth presents a threat to the global economy, says Equant Analytics' Rebecca Harding. This presentation to the TXF Trade and Treasury conference in...

When asked to write an update on Russia, my initial thought was, why? Surely it is clear to everyone? But the more I thought about it, the more I realised just how...