James Reynolds will become chief executive of specialist credit and political risk insurance broker BPL next year when the ...

The World Bank has appointed Mizuho banker Tsutomu Yamamoto as managing director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee ...

The Export Credit Bank of Türkiye (Türk Eximbank) has secured a shariah-compliant syndicated facility worth US$145mn from a group of Middle Eastern lenders and the Islamic Development Bank Group, ...

The US government’s surprise decision to exempt refined copper from 50% tariffs is unlikely to dent the profits of commodity traders expecting bumper returns, but could create complications for ...

Despite a host of industry associations and government agencies pointing out the difficulties SMEs face when exporting, including access to finance, the response has been piecemeal. SMEs exported £107 ...

A US senator has slammed the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim) for its backing of a US$20bn LNG project in Mozambique, arguing the state agency rushed its decision and failed to notify ...

The GTR Leaders in Trade awards highlight excellence in the trade, commodity, supply chain, export finance and fintech markets. The winners in each category are based on submissions sent to GTR. Where ...

Global financial messaging coordinator Swift has launched two AI pilot projects to target cross-border payments fraud.

Blockchain trade finance initiative Contour has now left beta, bringing the decentralised, digital trade finance platform into full live production. Owned by eight shareholder banks – Bangkok Bank, ...

A group of trade finance veterans has launched ETR Digital, a technology company offering digital negotiable instruments (DNIs) to businesses and banks for trade. The company says in a release that it ...

Singapore has become the second country to adopt the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) into domestic legislation, a move which sees the city-state grant electronic trade ...