The African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed a $25 million trade finance credit facility to Central Africa Building Society (CABS) of Zimbabwe. It will allow CABS to...

Johannesburg-based mezzanine fund manager Vantage Capital has provided a R80 million debenture facility to Namibian property group United Africa Group. It will be used...

Commodities group Olam International is expanding its grains trading in Switzerland after hiring executive Carl Desjardins from Grupo BTG Pactual. He will lead the...

Bermuda-based Everest Re Group is growing its insurance platform with the launch of a new credit and political risk business unit. Jim Thomas has been hired from...

In burgeoning market for renewable energy in Latin America, last year’s $306 million San Juan project promises to be Chile’s largest wind farm when complete.

Last year’s pioneering deal from HSBC and UKEF to sign the first ever renminbi financing of an aircraft purchase is TXF’s best ECA Aircraft Financing Deal of the...

The Royal United Services Institute is teaming up with PricewaterhouseCoopers on a study about how effective compliance rules and regulations for the UK's...

Tata's beleaguered UK steel plants have been dealt another blow after Euler Hermes pulled out of covering the group's business in Europe - leaving suppliers...

InterOil, a Singapore-based oil and gas group, has agreed a $400 million senior secured capital expenditure facility arranged by Australia and New Zealand Banking...

Development banks look set to give the green bond boom in China a further boost. The mainland needs at least 2 trillion yuan a year to fund eco projects - and the...

Global law firm Ince & Co has announced the partner promotion of Pavlo Samothrakis in its Dubai office. He has been with Ince & Co since 2006 and moved to the...

The European renewables sector's short-term financing needs should be able to be met by private placements and the banking market, according to research by...

America has assured European and Asian banks that they are free to do business with Iran. Secretary of State John Kerry downplayed fears that the banks could fall foul...

Airbus Group's new factory in Mobile, Alabama, will open the company up to an unlikely source of financing: The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US...

Netherlands-based grain trader Nidera has appointed Dierk Overheu as chief executive officer (CEO). He will replace Ton van der Laan, who is retiring.

Argentina's return to international capital markets and reintegration with the global economy represent a major milestone for Argentina and the global financial...

In a pioneering $800 million deal to finance Peru’s Lima Metro, the borrowers successfully structured a joint ECA and Public Private Partnership, to be crowned as TXF’s...

Chinese copper major Dongying Fangyuan took home TXF’s Best Asia-Pacific Commodities Deal of the Year 2015 with a $145 million pre-financing expanding its lender pool and...

Spanish renewable energy company Abengoa's fall from grace to near bankruptcy reveals concerns about the firm’s indulgence in overly complex supply chain finance...

As Basel III makes its mark, what effect will the new capital adequacy regime have on the banking sector and its offerings?