The Philippines agreed to join the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) shortly ahead of a year-end deadline to sign up. The country's indicative...

Swiss-based Faircot has chosen trading and risk management solutions supplier Brady to manage the physical trading and risk requirements for its cotton business....

US-based Finacity has launched a combined receivables securitisation programme for German companies Papier Union and PMF Factoring, allowing up to €100 million in...

For struggling mining companies, an important source of financing is growing scarce. Contending with falling profits and hefty debt payments, mining companies such as...

State lender Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) has secured $170 million (£115 million) worth of loan commitments from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US...

Vitol Group, the Swiss commodities trading house, has won the tender floated by the Ethiopian Petroleum Supply Enterprise (EPSE) for the supply of fuel to Ethiopia in...

Massimo Falcioni, head of Middle East countries at trade credit insurer Coface, explains the strengths of credit insurance and lessons learned from the 2008 crisis,...

Swiss commodity trader Vitol Group has become the first overseas buyer of US shale oil. ConocoPhillips will supply the first tanker-load, comprising crude and...

Crédit Agricole CIB (CACIB) and the Dutch development bank FMO, have combined to arrange and provide a $32.5 million facility for the construction of a green-field grain...

Kuwait’s Burgan Bank has signed an inaugural $350 million two-year club facility with a group of its relationship banks. Wells Fargo Bank, London branch, acted as...

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is providing guarantees to back loans by Standard Chartered Bank and Siemens Bank to North-West Power Generation...

Japanese banks and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) have signed loans under co-financing agreements totalling ¥41.6 billion ($345 million) for the...

Hesham Zakai, TXF Media’s content manager, picks his favourite trade and supply chain finance stories from 2015.

Jonathan Bell, TXF’s Editor in Chief, picks his favourite commodity financing stories from 2015.

Oliver Gordon, TXF’s News Editor, picks his favourite export credit finance stories from 2015.

Below are the 10 people moves that defined the trade and supply chain world in 2015. We have listed the 10 biggest trade and supply chain market moves that we...

Pakistan's K-Electric has signed loan agreements with Chinese banks to improve its transmission system. China's export credit agency, Sinosure, backed one of...

China's free trade agreement (FTA) with Australia has come into effect, raising hopes of increased trade between the two nations. The deal will create...

Russian shipping company Sovcomflot and Sberbank CIB have signed a 14-year, $340 million credit facility agreement to finance the construction of three Arctic shuttle...

Canadian mineral exploration and development company Kaizen Discovery has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with ITOCHU Corporation of Japan. ITOCHU will...