The Saudi Export-Import Bank has extended a US$100mn credit line to Turkey’s Ziraat Bank as it seeks to expand non-oil exports to the Turkish market.

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The International Finance Corporation has issued a US$140mn guarantee facility to African lender Ecobank, boosting the availability of trade finance lines across seven markets on the continent.

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As the sustainable finance market continues to grow and mature, the team at BNP Paribas explore the unique role trade and supply chain finance are playing in advancing a greener future for all.

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The Export-Import Bank of the United States provided up to US$360mn in cover for commodities giant Trafigura despite warnings over potential fraud risks, the US agency’s inspector general has found.

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The African Development Bank has approved a US$15mn funding deal for Zimbabwe’s First Capital Bank, which will use the proceeds to provide trade finance to SMEs and women-owned businesses.

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The International Finance Corporation has partnered with Absa Group to extend a US$60mn commodity finance facility to support coffee merchant Volcafe’s operations in East Africa.

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For the past year, Kaare Stamer Andreasen has been enlisted by Denmark’s export credit agency to carry out a potentially life-threatening venture: conducting due diligence in war-torn Ukraine.

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EU countries appear to be buying Russian oil products worth billions of dollars that are re-exported from Turkey, research has found, as campaigners call on authorities to tighten sanctions on the Kremlin.

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The Export-Import Bank of India has boosted its post-tax profit by almost two thirds, in a bumper year of business driven in part by growth in the clean energy, automotive and engineering sectors.

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Baft (Bankers Association for Finance and Trade) has launched a Women in Transaction Banking initiative to promote gender diversity and inclusion within the industry.

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Trade-focused fintech Mercore has completed its first digital bill of exchange transaction in Africa, facilitating sales of organic pesticides by a Kenyan producer to a buyer in Belgium.

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Standard Chartered has hired two global heads of transaction banking sales.

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Fossil fuel financing from the world’s largest banks dropped by more than US$70bn in 2023, a report has found, yet an increase in backing for trade in LNG has prompted a backlash for climate campaigners.

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Since the UK formally legalised the use of electronic trade documents last year, trade digitalisation experts have puzzled over what makes a digital trade platform a “reliable system” in the eyes of the law.

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Citi and the Asian Development Bank have signed a risk participation agreement aimed at boosting supply chain finance for SMEs across the Asia Pacific region.

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Trade has become the centrepiece of US measures aimed at blocking imports from China potentially linked to forced labour.

Aluminium – a key ingredient in many modern goods – is finding itself in the crosshairs of Washington’s enforcement regime.

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Nationwide Excess and Surplus/Specialty has hired Jackie Magana to head its US trade credit business.

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The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit has signed insurance deals worth a total of €420mn aimed at boosting infrastructure development in West Africa.

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UK Export Finance has sealed its first transaction facilitating oil and gas decommissioning, issuing a US$7.5mn guarantee for exports of equipment for removing cables and pipelines from Brazilian offshore rigs.

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