The export credit agencies (ECAs) of Iran and Kazakhstan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote trade and investment between the two nations. The...

Barak founder Jean Craven talks to TXF’s Helen Castell about opportunities in African agri, how trade finance funds complement bank finance and about Barak’s plans to...

The Nordic Investment Bank and Denmark's Ringkjøbing Landbobank have agreed a €20 million loan programme to finance Danish environmental projects and...

Cross-border energy trade in Afghanistan is to be boosted by Asian Development Bank (ADB) grants worth $1.2 billion. The deal will reinforce ongoing energy projects,...

German export and project finance bank KfW IPEX-Bank is financing two new Quantum-class ships for US-based cruise line Royal Caribbean. The ships will be built at the...

Deutsche Bank China is to handle cash management for German lighting manufacturer OSRAM. The bank will provide payments and collections services, both in foreign...

The China Development Bank has hit its target of pooling $5 billion dollars this year in its equity investment fund for Africa. The China Africa Development Fund has...

The Russian Agency for Export Credit and Investment Insurance (EXIAR) has insured a loan for the country's mineral fertiliser producer Uralchem to boost global...

Staff at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) are to be trained by the Institute of Export (IOE) to help small and medium-sized enterprises...

The Chinese renminbi (RMB) now accounts for 7% of payments by value in deals between Japan and China/Hong Kong - making it the second most active currency. The RMB...

Export Development Canada (EDC) is providing a loan guarantee to help the country's Traffic Innovation, which makes traffic posts, export its products to Colombia....

It could be the end of an era at Singapore-based agri-commodity trader Olam International after Narain Girdhar Chanrai announced his retirement from the board of...

Ecobank Nigeria has sealed a $170 million term loan facility, with the African Export-Import Bank acting as mandated lead arranger. It will be used for refinancing...

Croatian oil and gas company INA, a subsidiary of Hungary's MOL, has signed a $300 million long-term, multi-currency revolving credit facility (RCF) agreement.

US-based aluminium producer Kaiser Aluminium has signed a $300 million, five-year senior secured revolving credit facility (RCF) by amending and restating its existing...

Myanmar's Co-operative Bank (CB Bank) has ramped up its trade financing services and will now provide financing directly to exporters. It becomes the first bank in...

Export credit agency, the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) is setting up a line of credit with Brazil's state-run development bank BNDES for...

After over five months of political wrangling in the US House of Representatives and the Senate, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) has finally and...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has signed an agreement with Egypt's Al Baraka Bank to expand the availability of trade finance for the country's...

With the aim of providing financial support to help sustainable Canadian businesses commercialize, scale up and go international, Canadian ECA Export Development Canada...