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

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

The French legislature has passed a law allowing digital versions of widely used trade documents, such as bills of lading, marking a milestone in global efforts to make trade paperless. The June 5 ...

Trade finance platform Komgo has unveiled a significant upgrade to its system, bundling its solutions into a one-stop shop for corporates and banks, following months of development and millions of ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the first signs emerge of enforcement action linked to disgraced Singapore oil trader Hin Leong, court documents have revealed the extent to which the company had become dependent on fake trades, ...

The Biden administration’s approach to international negotiations marks a step change in US trade policy. But despite a change in tone towards the World Trade Organization (WTO), there is little ...

Trafigura has revealed it could lose more than half a billion dollars after falling foul of a “systematic fraud” allegedly carried out by a group of commodity traders, including London-headquartered ...

The Bankers Association for Finance and Trade (Baft) has revised and updated its English law master participation agreement (MPA) to drive further standardisation in trade transactions and meet the ...