The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project between Russia and Germany has only 150 kilometres of pipeline left to lay, but increased sanctions from the US and now calls to...

The 11th edition of the ICC Global Survey on Trade Finance incorporates the views of 346 respondents in 85 countries - from international banks to regional and local...

This year's edition of TXF’s Commodity Finance Market Report comprises the insights of 173 traders, bankers, alternative financiers, lawyers, brokers, borrowers and...

Markus (Maex) Ament is at odds with the private/permissioned route that most blockchain consortia are taking to blockchain in general, and trade and supply chains in...

By Markus Wohlgeschaffen, global head of trade products, UniCredit and member of the banking advisory board, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC); and Andre Casterman,...

KfW IPEX-Bank has arranged a $194 million export credit financing transaction for the German firm PCC SE to build a state-of-the-art silicon metal production plant in...

The German state-owned bank, KfW IPEX-Bank, has teamed up with BayernLB to arrange a $224 million financing for the Pampa wind farm in Uruguay. Total investment cost of...

More than 400 trade finance practitioners gathered in Turkey’s cultural and commercial capital Istanbul this week for the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Banking...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has appointed six new advisory board members to its Banking Commission, and three new Technical Advisors on the ICC Trade...

Tackling terminology now could be a stitch in time for the supply chain finance industry - but it will not be an easy ride

Hesham Zakai reports on changes taking place within the International Forfaiting Association.

The German state-owned development bank, KfW IPEX-Bank, will provide a €100 million ($126 million) for the construction of the Kuolavaara-Keulakkopään Tuulipuisto Oy wind...

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA), formerly the International Forfaiting Association (IFA), has undergone an ambitious revamp focused on playing a...

The Finnish export credit agency Finnvera has reiterated its support for Finnish exporters to Russia. The statement comes even in the height of the troubled geopolitical...

KfW IPEX-Bank is providing export credit financing amounting to €51 million ($68.3 million) to Brazilian-based Berneck Painéis e Serrados (Berneck).

What is being branded as ‘the most efficient power plant in South-East Asia’ is to receive financing through a combination of loans from KfW IPEX-Bank and support from...

KfW IPEX-Bank has signed a $794 million loan with ~Big River Steel^, a company based in Arkansas, US, for the development of a new sheet ste

German export credit agency KfW IPEX - Bank is providing finance for the supply of raw materials into Germany and the rest of Europe in the form of a $100 million loan...

Germany’s KfW IPEX - Bank is financing the export of equipment to Turkey’s steel manufacturer Kardemir with an ECA-covered loan of €140 million ($190 million).

In an important development in the further provision of electronic trade, essDOCS, the leading shipping and trade eDocs provider, has announced two major projects...