The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $110m loan to Barki Tojik, national power utility of Tajikistan, to finance...
International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, signed an agreement with Afriland First Bank Cameroon (Afriland) to enable it to expand its...
US trade representative Michael Froman said ministers were more confident than ever that a deal on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership was within reach, despite...
General Electric Co (GE) is taking steps to shift some US manufacturing work overseas now that the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) will be shuttered...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) working together with a group of international commercial banks has arranged a $ 300 million syndicated...
The French government has announced on Wednesday that it will go ahead with its plan to transfer the management of state export guarantees, currently carried out by...
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is working to increase its footprint across the continent and broaden its role in African trade finance, Bank President...
Bunge, a global agribusiness and food company, has released its report for the second quarter of 2015. Main results included a total adjusted segment EBIT of $152m,...
GAO Capital (GAO) has announced a strategic alliance with Straits Financial Group (Straits) to collaborate on GAO Funds, a multi-strategy fund platform with a focus on...
GT Nexus announced on Thursday that Koch Industries (Koch) has adopted the GT Nexus platform to enable end-to-end visibility of Koch’s transportation portfolio...
Barclays has collaborated with Chinese export credit agency (ECA) Sinosure to arrange $828 million in overall project financing for Zambia’s Maamba Collieries. The...
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) won’t be revived until at least September - if at all. Congress is headed toward approving a...
If prizes were being dished out for corporate success since the turn of the millennium, the big commodity trading houses would be right up there at the front of the...
International trade credit insurer Euler Hermes released its half-year results for 2015 on Tuesday, reporting increases in revenue and operating income despite a...
Jonathan Bell reviews this year’s Ghana Cocobod financing, analyses the record of pricing, and looks at the prospect of further value-added for African soft commodities.
Boeing Chairman W. James McNerney suggested on Wednesday that Boeing may need to move some operations offshore if the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US...
SBM Offshore, a Dutch supplier of floating production and mooring systems, has completed a $1.55 billion export credit agency (ECA)-backed project financing to finance...
Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday in Abidjan announced that the country plans to increase its investment in the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) by...
PrimeRevenue, a platform for working capital finance solutions, announced PrimeRevenue Capital Management on Tuesday, a new venture focused on offering alternative...
More SMEs are trading globally and looking beyond Europe for growth, according to the latest findings from Western Union Business Solutions, a subsidiary of The...
Welcome to Exiled: The Real Assets People, a podcast where we ‘strand’ a guest on a desert island and ask them who from their professional past, present, and future they’d choose to be stranded with. After all, it’s people that make a profession. Our first guest is Catherine Lang Anderson, Partner & Head of Trade & Commodity Finance Practice at A&O Shearman. Recorded live from the Royal Academy of Arts, it will be no surprise to anyone who knows Catherine that her Exile is going to be a party!
Commodity traders reaped substantial profits off the back of market volatility in 2022 and 2023. With their war chests armed, they pursued a policy of diversification – across financing, business lines and investments.
The trade finance industry has suffered a trio of ailments since the end of 2024 with the shuttering of three different non-bank lenders. While the circumstances across the three cases vary, market conditions are posing problems for lenders of all sizes. How can the community reflect on these events, and what options are borrowers left with?
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