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...
Feature
30 May 2011
As the heat rises in the so-called ‘Arab spring’, Beazley’s Adrian Lewers examines the political risk factors that are shaping investors’ decisions about their future in the Middle East and North...
Feature
30 May 2011
India’s growth is fuelling an export boom across South Asia. Ivan Castano reports.
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
Omni Bridgeway examines the trade and economic implications of the recent protests in Egypt.
News
3 May 2011
BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank have closed the syndication of five year and seven year loans for Metalloinvest, the Russian metals and mining group founded by Alisher Usmanov.
Feature
3 May 2011
How will the devastating earthquake and tsunami affect Japan’s economy? Graeme Burton investigates.
Feature
3 May 2011
The year has opened with a series of events that few could have predicted in January. FCIA’s Byron Shoulton examines the likely consequences.
Opinion
3 May 2011
When the Chinese Year of the Rabbit (strictly speaking, perhaps, the Year of the Hare) was celebrated at the beginning of February, it was hoped that it would usher in a period of calm.
News
29 March 2011
ANZ, with the support of Australian export credit agency EFIC, has provided a $25m export credit facility to Thornycroft Maritime & Associates.
News
29 March 2011
The EBRD is providing UniCredit Bank Serbia with a comprehensive financial package to support Serbian companies in their drive to modernise and upgrade production.
News
29 March 2011
Law firm SNR Denton has doubled the size of its Africa network following the recruitment of ten new associate firms, giving it the largest footprint of any international law firm on the continent.
News
29 March 2011
Ukrainian mining and steel group Metinvest has secured a modest $75m two-year pre-export finance deal with Rabobank.
News
29 March 2011
US Exim has approved a $100m loan guarantee to support the export of ten General Electric Model C30Aci locomotives to South African railway operator Transnet.
