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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HSBC can continue gaining market share in trade finance despite uncertainty created by US tariffs, chief executive Georges Elhedery has said, as the bank reported a bump in trade revenue in the first ...

JP Morgan says South African telecommunications provider MTN SA has become the first customer to use the bank’s digital bill of exchange product. The product, which uses Swedish digital trade fintech ...

Digital trade finance consortium Contour is terminating its services, after being unable to raise sufficient funds from its bank shareholders to continue to sustain itself. In a memo to its members ...

Banks and other players in trade finance have spent the past few years willing the transformation of the sector through the introduction of blockchain technology, with financial institutions even ...