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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

JP Morgan’s new global head of export finance, Laura Galvin, has said that her focus is on “supporting our clients and growing the business”. Galvin joined the lender as head of export and agency ...

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 ...

An alleged US$31mn debt to non-bank financier Artis Finance and a stockpile of nickel that turned out to be almost worthless steel are among the separate legal challenges facing metals trader TMT ...

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 ...

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 ...

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