South Korea's government and central bank agreed this week to devise detailed plans on how to finance structural reform in the country's shipbuilding and...

Glencore announced on Wednesday it had cut its copper and zinc production in the first quarter of 2016 as it struggles to reduce its surplus that has caused prices to...

The Financial Services Commission (FSC) has said it will recapitalise the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank) by giving the lender stakes in state-run companies....

The International Chamber of Commerce has warmed to a new World Trade Organisation (WTO) report which identifies a the trade finance gap for small-and medium-sized...

The first ever Intra-African Trade Finance and Payment Systems Conference held in Abidjan has urged African development finance insitutions to forge partnerships in a...

TXF’s Dominik Kloiber caught up with Sace’s head of international business, Michal Ron, to discuss the Italian ECA’s latest push to expand its footprint and product...

Project finance loans in Latin America and the Caribbean dropped to $2.37 billion for 13 projects in the first quarter of 2016, compared to $3.97 billion for 39...

The People's Bank of China is turning on the credit taps to the China Development Bank (CBD), Agricultural Development Bank of China, and the Export-Import Bank of...

Russian potash producer Uralkali has completed a $1.2 billion pre-export financing with more than a dozen international banks, bucking the trend for Russian commodity...

Trade promotion agency International Enterprise (IE) Singapore has enhanced its structured commodity financing scheme to include streaming financing, merger and...

Singapore-based oil and gas group Puma Energy, a subsidiary of Trafigura, saw first-quarter gross profits rise 23% to a record $428 million. Puma also closed new...

Abbey Sturrock has joined insurer Marsh's political risk and structured credit practice as a senior vice president. Based in London, she will be responsible for...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) says more needs to be done to help close the gaps in the availability of trade finance for small and medium-sized enterprises...

The Islamic Development Bank, which is expanding its financing activities, will sell sukuk bonds in the Malaysian market this year after a three-year hiatus.

The Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) has issued a $1.25 billion bond - its largest this year. The three-year bond, which has a 2% interest rate, will finance...

KfW, the German development bank, has signed a €137.5 million loan agreement to finance power grid improvements in Bangladesh. It is the highest KfW low-interest...

The China Development Bank (CBD) and Export-Import Bank of China (China Exim) have signed loan agreements worth more than $12 billion with Russia's $27 billion...

In late April, only four months after the trade embargo on Iran was lifted, Italy's Sace took the lead in the ECA space, guaranteeing €4 billion in credit lines to...

It's the last chance to vote for the TXF Commodity Finance Awards: Best in Class 2016, with the deadline expiring at midnight tonight (Thursday 5 May). The TXF...

The $80 million prepayment to Cocoa Touton Processing is a landmark financing for West Africa, bringing added-value processing on a major scale to Ghana. Jonathan Bell...