Mega upstream gas projects have been prolific in recent years, but asks Jonathan Bell, how is the industry changing and what can we expect with future projects?
With the support of business technology and big data, the development of cross-border e-commerce has a promising future. Sinosure’s underwriters Chen Jichao and Zhou...
A Chinese joint venture has won the Ramu 2 hydro project in Papua New Guinea and is in the market for a major project financing.
The Chinese renminbi this month dropped from the second to the third most active currency in trade finance, overtaken by the euro. The drop has resulted from a slowing...
Deutsche Bank has arranged and provided a $30 million structured trade finance facility to Huawei Tech Investment in Indonesia, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Chinese...
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has authorised the Canadian branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) to serve as a renminbi (RMB) clearing bank in...
It seems hard to keep Scorpio Bulkers out of the news, and a new $39.6 million loan comes hard on the heels of the company’s October deal with DNB and Korean agencies for...
Jonathan Bell examines the renaissance of shipbuilding in Asia in a sector assisted by the demand for specialised vessels.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) have entered into a $2 billion co-financing fund to be known as the Africa Growing Together Fund...
Hong Kong-headquartered Pacific Basin Shipping (Pacific Basin), through PB Vessels Holding (PBVH), a wholly-owned British Virgin Islands company, has signed an export...
The trade finance industry has suffered a trio of ailments since the end of 2024 with the shuttering of three different non-bank lenders. While the circumstances across the three cases vary, market conditions are posing problems for lenders of all sizes. How can the community reflect on these events, and what options are borrowers left with?
Welcome to Exiled: The Real Assets People, a podcast where we ‘strand’ a guest on a desert island and ask them who from their professional past, present, and future they’d choose to be stranded with. After all, it’s people that make a profession. Our first guest is Catherine Lang Anderson, Partner & Head of Trade & Commodity Finance Practice at A&O Shearman. Recorded live from the Royal Academy of Arts, it will be no surprise to anyone who knows Catherine that her Exile is going to be a party!
Commodity traders reaped substantial profits off the back of market volatility in 2022 and 2023. With their war chests armed, they pursued a policy of diversification – across financing, business lines and investments.
The trade finance industry has suffered a trio of ailments since the end of 2024 with the shuttering of three different non-bank lenders. While the circumstances across the three cases vary, market conditions are posing problems for lenders of all sizes. How can the community reflect on these events, and what options are borrowers left with?
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