OECD members failed to reach a deal to restrict export credit support for oil and gas in their latest round of talks, ...

The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) has named Khalid Khalafalla as its next ...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK and newly launched International Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation (iC4TDI) have published a paper outlining a “roadmap” to digitalise trade. The ...

Danish renewable energy developer Ørsted has secured a financing facility backed by a club of export credit agencies (ECAs) ...

UAE ministers have hailed progress in expanding access to finance for smaller businesses after Abu Dhabi-based embedded finance startup CredibleX announced it has raised US$55mn in a seed funding ...

UK-based Kimura Capital has closed its trade finance fund, adding to wider market challenges around financing for smaller and mid-sized commodity traders. Bloomberg reported on December 17 that Kimura ...

MUFG has announced the appointment of Atakan Akkaya as head of commodity and structured trade finance for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea) region. He replaces Jean-Marie Le Fouest, who has ...

2024 has been a steady, if unremarkable, year for trade and trade finance, with modest growth in goods trade and a market that is slowly stabilising from the dual shocks of Covid and Russia’s invasion ...

South Africa’s Standard Bank has secured two facilities worth a combined US$400mn from the African Development Bank (AfDB) to support financing for SMEs on the continent. The first is a three-year ...

Banks in the EU are gearing up for the implementation of new capital requirement rules when Basel 4 takes effect on January 1 next year, but doubts remain over the treatment of key trade finance ...