Citi has hired Seemanti Considine as financial institution sales head for the United Arab Emirates, based in Dubai.

The Access Bank UK has secured an oversubscribed facility worth US$370mn from a group of 14 banks. The funds were disbursed ...

UAE ministers have hailed progress in expanding access to finance for smaller businesses after Abu Dhabi-based embedded finance startup CredibleX announced it has raised US$55mn in a seed funding ...

Digital lender Revolut has signalled it intends to start offering trade finance, marking the US$45bn fintech’s first step toward business lending. London-headquartered Revolut advertised for a head of ...

China’s vow to boost the “scale and coverage” of export credit insurance will likely focus on technology exports and overseas investments, experts say, as Beijing works to transform its ...

The government of Cameroon has closed a €94.8mn export credit agency-backed deal to finance the improvement of a road in the south of the country. Deutsche Bank is the sole lender on the transaction, ...

2024 has been a steady, if unremarkable, year for trade and trade finance, with modest growth in goods trade and a market that is slowly stabilising from the dual shocks of Covid and Russia’s invasion ...

Italian export credit agency Sace has signed an agreement with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to provide credit protection across a range of critical sectors including energy and infrastructure.

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has agreed to shoulder half the risk on up to US$1bn of HSBC’s trade assets, to help unlock lending in emerging markets. The assets will be originated by ...

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) UK and newly launched International Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation (iC4TDI) have published a paper outlining a “roadmap” to digitalise trade. The ...

The company behind Poland’s first nuclear power project has secured a letter of intent worth US$1.45bn from Export Development Canada (EDC). The deal is still subject to a “detailed due diligence ...

MUFG has announced the appointment of Atakan Akkaya as head of commodity and structured trade finance for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea) region. He replaces Jean-Marie Le Fouest, who has ...