News
30 May 2011
Deutsche Bank today announced the appointment of Lisa Robins as Head of its Global Transaction Banking (GTB) business for the Asia Pacific region which will become effective in July.
News
30 May 2011
Bunge, one of the world’s biggest grain traders, has been expelled from Argentina’s ‘registry of grain traders’ in a deepening dispute over alleged corporate tax evasion.
News
4 May 2011
Deutsche Bank today announced the appointment of Lisa Robins as Head of its Global Transaction Banking business for the Asia Pacific region.
Feature
3 May 2011
Pavel Andrle examines how well URDG 758 – the Uniform Rules for Demand Guarantees – is bedding in just over six months after its introduction.
News
3 May 2011
Piracy at sea reached hit an all-time high in the first three months of 2011, according to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), with 142 attacks worldwide.
Feature
3 May 2011
nWhen the draft Uniform Rules for Forfaiting were released in March 2011, they were not universally welcomed. Graeme Burton reports.
Feature
3 May 2011
How will the devastating earthquake and tsunami affect Japan’s economy? Graeme Burton investigates.
Feature
15 April 2011
Stephenson Harwood’s Haris Zografakis and Michael Bundock examine a legal decision affecting arbitration of disputes in commodities contracts.
News
29 March 2011
The US government has introduced sanctions against Libya in an Executive Order that “prohibits US persons from doing business with the Government of Libya and any of its instrumentalities or...
News
24 February 2011
The appeal in the landmark Fortis Bank and Stemcor UK Limited versus Indian Overseas Bank case in the Court of Appeal in London was heard at the end of January.
Feature
24 February 2011
Graeme Burton talks to Sean Edwards about the aftermath of the Kazakhstan banking crisis.
It has been some two years now since Kazakhstan’s banking crisis and the nationalisations of BTA,...
Feature
24 February 2011
Do recent developments in Burma herald major change in Burma – or is it just a case of plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose?
Feature
24 February 2011
David Hennah looks at clouds another way.
Awards
23 February 2011
Graeme Burton highlights the winners and losers in TFR’s Deals of the Year 2010.
Awards
23 February 2011
One of the most interesting aspects of overseeing the TFR Deals of the Year awards is witnessing how two top professionals can fundamentally disagree on the same deal.
Awards
23 February 2011
Mechel’s $2bn pre-export finance (PXF) signed in September 2010 attracted particular praise from our judges, as one of just five put before all of them for their consideration.
Awards
23 February 2011
There weren’t too many syndicated commodity-based transactions in the Brazilian agri-sector in 2010. But the quality of the borrower, combined with an extensive, Basel II-compliant collateral package...
Awards
23 February 2011
Structuring transactions in such esoteric geographies as Turkmenistan is never easy due to political and judicial uncertainty, and although this big-ticket investment is 100% insured by NEXI, it...
