The volume of sustainable deals within the export finance sector is growing. But to take this forward positively across all industrial sectors a sensible debate with a...

Supply chain finance can be a great tool for keeping funding flowing to all parts of the supply chain, but is there an existential strain on programmes from the...

The private activity bond for a new light rail facility at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) finds a role for a bond insurer, and a role for PPP in developing...

The bond refinancing of Actis’ acquisition of InterGen Mexico was pitched as a safe play in Mexico’s evolving energy sector. But reform, politics, and the assets’ age,...

As Argentina prepares to award the first roads concessions in its ambitious $25 billion-plus PPP programme, bankers are already working with sponsors on plans to raise...

Five years on from the Mexico's landmark energy sector reforms, a spate of recent financings – one without DFI backing – support market expectation that the pace of...

Colombia’s $70 billion infrastructure programme has hit a few bankability hurdles in the past year. But the government has reacted proactively and is generating...

Turkey and Mexico have each seen their share of world trade soar in the past two decades. The challenge now is to continue that dynamic growth in the years ahead - growth...

The state of trade, commodity and export finance in Brazil: special correspondent Luis Waldmann looks at the avenues that Brazilian exporters have for export, commodity...

The North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) came into effect on 1 January 1994, and with it arrived a fundamental structural change. In fact, Mexico embraced an...

International financial institutions (IFIs) namely the multilateral development banks (MDBs) and the IMF, have signaled plans to extend more than $400 billion in...

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has signed a $47 million loan to support the development of the Clarendon solar photovoltaic facility in Jamaica. The...

Luis Alvarez, the veteran global head of crude oil trading at commodities titan Glencore, has retired, leaving a hole in the trader’s senior operations management...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) today announced a new slate of members for its advisory committee for fiscal 2015.

Enel Green Power (EGP), acting through its fully-owned subsidiary Dominica Energia Limpia, has signed a $104 million loan with Spain’s Banco Santander for the 100 MW...

Historically, the global trade finance market has been considered liquid and wellfunctioning. Nevertheless, after the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008, important...

Santander Global Banking & Markets has today formally announced the new structure of its global transaction banking (GTB) division.

Santander has appointed Rogier Schulpen as managing director and global head of trade and working capital solutions.

TXF talks to Santander about the current state of the trade and supply chain finance market.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has appointed Luis Fernando Barbosa Sahagun as the new vice-chair of the Commission on Customs and Trade Facilitation.