ITFA, the Global Trade Finance Industry Body, is delighted to announce the creation of the ITFA Multilaterals Advisory Panel. The newly created Panel was set up with the aim of… read more →

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and BNP Paribas (BNPP), today announced a landmark Synthetic Significant Risk Transfer (Synthetic SRT) transaction. This Synthetic SRT will allow BNPP to… read more →

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s investment arm, said it will provide Sri Lanka a $400 million cross-currency swap facility to help fund essential imports. Three private banks,… read more →

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG, 27 February 2023

Kyriba Corp, a cloud-based finance and IT solutions firm, and Jiko, a vertically integrated financial institution offering its clients real-time programmatic access to the yield and safety of T-bills, today… read more →

Allianz Trade, a provider of trade credit insurance, is set to acquire an additional 50% stake in Cosec, the Portuguese export credit agency (ECA), from Banco BPI, Portugal’s fourth largest… read more →

Global CRM firm Salesforce has announced that Santander UK is using its technology to power Santander Navigator to help UK businesses expand internationally.  It is a digital platform launched in… read more →

Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa and India Prime Minister Narendra Modi met today to discuss the country’s development priorities. Mr. Asakawa conveyed ADB’s intention to provide $20 billion–$25… read more →

A court ruling on 22 February heard that the Marco Polo Network has debts of more than €5.2 million (£4.6 million).

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) have signed a landmark first co-financing agreement, under which MIGA will issue up to $200… read more →