Mizuho has hired Saad Latif as head of trade finance for the Middle East and Africa, bolstering the team further after the ...

Lawyer Jennifer Greengrass has joined the London office of Norwegian law firm Wikborg Rein as a legal director. The shipping, ...

Crédit Agricole CIB has announced that Thibaut Jean has taken up the role of global head of export credit agency (ECA) and ...

A Hong Kong governmental advisory body has set out a strategy to establish the city as a commodity trading and financial services hub, including by better connecting mainland China and international ...

Structuring around risk boundaries To make inventory finance insurable, structures must isolate pure credit risk, such as non-payment due to insolvency, while ringfencing operational exposures.

As trade finance continues to evolve, the findings from the latest CGI and Baft (Bankers Association for Finance and Trade) ‘Global trade technology industry survey’ reveal seismic shifts that will ...

BNP Paribas has said a €190mn fraud charge linked to receivables financing in its global markets division is linked to “new entries” with “low collateralisation”. The Paris-headquartered lender made a ...

Distributing trade finance products such as supply chain finance and short-term loans will become a “strategic necessity” for banks due to tougher capital requirements set to be phased in by the end ...

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) has signed seven letters of interest (LOIs) totalling more than US$2.2bn to advance critical minerals projects in Australia, as part of a broader ...

Fintech company SecureLend has launched a 'first-of-its-kind' AI platform designed to automate business lending and working capital workflows.

Progress on shipping decarbonisation could slow after member states voted to push back talks on the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) net-zero framework, sector figures have warned. The US ...

The ICC UK’s new “digital trade superhighways” framework for action: Prioritise high-volume trade corridors for early digitalisation. Connect strategic logistics and finance hubs through open data ...