04 February 2010 | This article has 2 comments
Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke has announced that US Ex-Im is to play a vital role in President Obama’s National Export Initiative - details. More »
02 February 2010
Russian oil producers Bashneft and Gazpromneft are deciding between pre-export financings or bond issues as they approach bankers for new loans. More »
28 January 2010 | This article has 1 comment
Russian cellulose producer Vyborgskaya Cellulose (Vyborg) is using a pre-export financing to build the world's largest wood pellet plant. More »
25 January 2010
Deutsche Bank has appointed a new head of head of structured trade and export finance Asia, and continues the search for a new head of Americas structured trade finance. More »
22 January 2010
Global heads of export finance from 13 leading banks gathered today in Paris to discuss issues that impact on the ECA-backed business line. More »
20 January 2010
Rabobank and Banco Espirito Santo (BES) and the UK’s Ocean Partners have closed a second limited recourse pre-payment facility to fund Mongolian copper miner Erdenet. More »
19 January 2010
Dickon Harris approaches the sharpest legal minds in Trade Finance to find out what to expect in 2010. More »
18 January 2010
Trade Finance's Dickon Harris examines two inventory financing schemes being developed in Uganda and Ethiopia. More »
15 January 2010
Banco Espirito Santo (BES) and China Development Bank launch syndication of a major trade-related loan for Venezuelan oil producer PDVSA. More »
12 January 2010 | This article has 1 comment
Dealogic league tables for 2009 show global trade finance volume up 3% to $155.1 billion and 4Q 2009 reached a record of $45.9 billion. More »
12 January 2010
London-based commodities broker ED&F Man Holdings is in talks with banks as it seeks to grow its $1 billion plus revolving credit facility. More »
Russian oil major Tatneft is looking to push-out the tenor on its latest pre-export financing. More »
11 January 2010
Under Andre Casterman, Swift’s trade and supply chain team are spearheading a renewed focus on trade for the cooperative in 2010. More »
18 December 2009
Highlights from the December 2009/January 2010 print edition of Trade Finance magazine. More »
08 February 2010
Pricing for Ghana Cocobod’s annual pre-export financing looks likely to drop by at least 100 basis points according to a poll conducted by Trade Finance Magazine.
05 February 2010
Canadian export credit agency, EDC, has provided a loan to Chilean mining company Minera Los Pelambres.
09 February 2010
Iron ore and coal company Resourcehouse has secured Australia’s largest export contract - 20-year sales agreement with China Power International Development.
The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development has announced a new strategy to support Kazakhstan, which does not involve either Alliance Bank or BTA Bank.
A group of investors led by Bain Capital Ventures has completed a third round of investment for The Receivables Exchange, the online marketplace for the trading of accounts receivables.
Finacity Corporation, together with Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, has facilitated a European trade receivables securitisation for CHC Helicopter.
Venture Structured Finance has provided a receivables finance package, combined with a cash flow term loan, to fund James Caan’s acquisition of medical recruitment specialist DRC Group through a BIMBO deal.
Bibby Financial Services, has provided a factoring facility to support a Canadian company that imports precision scales and weighing instruments from China.
03 February 2010
Abu Dhabi plans to create an export development agency in the third quarter of 2010 to boost its non-oil exports.
Davenham has agreed to a trade finance and invoice finance facility on behalf of Park Designs to provide additional working capital.
29 January 2010
JPMorgan, the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the National Aviation Company of India (Air India) are celebrating the close of a jumbo US EX-Im backed financing to supply Boeing aircraft to Air India.
01 February 2010
Under the government of Japan’s Trade Finance Initiative, JBIC has signed its first loan to CAF to directly support trade finance.
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