Emmanuel Lemoine has been appointed the Paris-based director regional trade sales at ING Wholesale Banking. He has more than 20 years experience in banking,...

Danish export credit agency EKF has appointed Marsh as its facultative reinsurance broker for its medium and long-term commercial and political risks with private and...

Rio Tinto, the London-based Anglo-Australian metals and mining group, has launched a new debt-reduction bid in the form of a $3 billion bond purchase plan.

Chinese copper producer Fangyuan Group has sealed a $385 million pre-delivery term loan facility with Deutsche Bank and ING Bank, with 54% over-subscription.

US-based BNY Mellon has hired Dominic Broom as global head of trade sales for the company's Treasury Services business. He previously served as head of sales and...

Iran has set a target to install 5,000 MW of renewable energy capacity by 2021, and according to one lawyer, export credit agencies will be key to achieving that goal.

Compliance solutions provider Accuity has launched its dual-use goods screening capability, which enhances standard regulation lists to increase the chance of catching...

Standard Chartered (StanChart) has completed the first real-time cross-border payment for businesses with another bank. The deal, which would normally take up to two...

America's Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has opened its first East Africa office in Nairobi, Kenya. The office will be run by Suresh Samuel as...

Export credit agency SACE and Banca Monte Paschi di Siena (Banca MPS) joined forces on a letter of credit to allow Italian mixing equipment group Plas Mec to export...

Advisory, broking and solutions company Willis Towers Watson has boosted its Asia team by hiring Kirk Lee, who will focus on trade credit; and Patricia Pang, who will...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has agreed a $75 million loan to the Egyptian Ethylene and Derivatives Company (ETHYDCO) to boost the country's...

Benoit Desserre has been appointed Societe Generale's global head of global transaction banking (GTB) and deputy head of global transaction & payment services....

Insurer Markel International has hired Arjan van de Wall as director of development, Americas, in its trade credit and political risk operation in the US. He will help...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has hired Amr Kamel as its new executive vice-president of business development and corporate banking. He is the former...

The development of one of the world’s highest producing polyhalite mines in North Yorkshire, backed by commercial bank and Canada’s EDC financing could bring jobs and an...

GE has used the US-Africa Business Forum to vow to remain a "steadfast partner in Africa's growth" and insisted it would continue to invest in the...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) is in talks with India over an $8-9 billion loan to finance six nuclear reactors by American company...

Accenture has implemented a payments-platform-as-a-service solution, with Unicredit as its first client. It will process global payments and adapt to new regulations...

The long and short-term issuer credit ratings of the Export-Import Bank of Hungary (Hungarian Ex-Im) have been raised to BBB-/A-3 from BB+/B by S&P Global...