Swedish export credit agency EKN has named finance ministry official Åke Nordlander as its incoming director-general, as Anna ...

Paul Carrington has been named head of Europe and senior director at trade credit insurance specialist Navitas Assurance ...

This interactive webinar will delve into role that insurance can play in supporting companies and facilitating bank lending during the pandemic.

The Japanese government has tightened its lending criteria for overseas coal-fired power plants, including that it will not provide financial support for any host country that does not have a ...

Trafigura has renewed its North America borrowing base facility in an oversubscribed deal worth over US$4.5bn, as the global commodities trader works to grow its energy business across the continent.

TradeFlow Capital Management and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) are launching a new fund to improve access to trade finance for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the ...

Commodity market speculation should be more stringently regulated to halt abrupt changes in food and energy prices, a report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has suggested.

Since its emergence in China at the end of last year, the Covid-19 outbreak has caused unprecedented damage to supply chains across the world. From output disruptions as factories shut down to demand ...

The World Bank has appointed Mizuho banker Tsutomu Yamamoto as managing director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (Miga). Yamamoto will take up the role in early December, succeeding ...

The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) is seeking to stamp out bills of lading fraud with a code of conduct register for non-vessel owning common carriers (NVOCCs). IMB is a division of the ...

The Nord Stream 2 project to transport natural gas directly from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea has been granted a construction permit from Denmark, overcoming its final hurdle. But for ...

The world economy is expected to lose some steam this year as the effects of the US stimulus fade, global monetary conditions continue to tighten and financial markets experience more volatility. So ...