News
1 August 2011
Tim Evans has been appointed Head of Trade and Supply Chain, for the Middle East and North Africa at HSBC.
Opinion
1 August 2011
Raiffeisen Bank’s Gunter Deuber examines the risk of regional contagion of a Greek sovereign default.
Awards
1 August 2011
The winners in all 30 categories...
Face to face
30 June 2011
Graeme Burton talks to Kobus van der Wath about China’s economic ‘miracle’.
Opinion
30 June 2011
First, it was 2010. Then 2030. Then, it was 2024. Now it’s 2020. The date, of course, is the year that China’s economy has been forecast to overtake America’s in size.
Feature
30 June 2011
HSBC’s Chris Lewis and Simon Constantinides examine the improving prospects for trade across Asia.
Feature
30 June 2011
Key contacts at HSBC, Citi, ABN Amro and ANZ.
Feature
30 June 2011
Charlie Pistorius examines how China is exporting its model of special economic zones to Africa and the impact they may have on the continent’s own development.
News
27 June 2011
TBI President and Chairman in Lebanon as Iraq’s government seeks his extradition.
News
27 June 2011
Financings for sub-Saharan Africa by the US export credit agency, Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim), has exceeded $1bn for the first time.
News
27 June 2011
Wind turbine manufacturer Northern Power Systems has secured guarantees from US Exim worth $22.2m to support the export of 55 100-kilowatt wind turbines to Italy.
News
30 May 2011
The annual Cocobod PXF deal is set to reach a record $1.75bn this year after turmoil in neighbouring Ivory Coast, the world’s biggest producer of cocoa, sent the world price of the commodity to 30-...
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
EFIC has provided two performance bonds to support Australian company Leighton Offshore in a $733m contract to construct enhanced export crude oil facilities in southern Iraq.
News
30 May 2011
Malta’s specialist trade finance bank, FIMBank, has reached an agreement with IFC and Brazilian bank BICBANCO, to invest in a new factoring joint venture in Brazil.
Opinion
30 May 2011
It’s been stated in TFR many times before that the global financial crisis was nothing special, new or out of the ordinary. It was perfectly predictable to anyone with eyes to see, a brain to think...
Feature
30 May 2011
Graeme Burton talks to IFA Chairman Paolo Provera about the impact of the turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa on forfaiting and trade finance.
Feature
30 May 2011
We have seen small price reductions this month in Egypt, Nigeria and Sri Lanka, but generally trading activity has been subdued. Good quality, short-term trade assets remain competitively priced in...
