Alexander R. Malaket, World Trade Board member and president of OPUS Advisory Services International Inc, explores how policy and technology can improve global trade

The IFC is looking to take over the mandated lead arranger role for the $80 million, 60MW Salima solar PV in Dedza, Malawi

UniCredit has appointed Ingo Raulf as director for corporate structured finance in Germany

Two of Deutsche Bank’s most senior trade and export finance bankers are set to retire with internal replacements lined up

The Bangladesh Government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) have signed a loan to provide Japanese official development assistance (ODA) of up to ¥143.127 billion ($1.32 billion) for a coal-fired power plant complex in Matarbari

Argentina-based power company Central Puerto has closed a $76.1 million financing with the IFC for its 88MW La Genoveva wind farm located close to Bahia Blanca, in the southern part of the Buenos Aires province

Mitigram, a Swedish fintech company specialising in trade finance risk coverage, has raised SKr100 million in a latest round of fundraising

West Africa-focused Perseus Mining has signed a $150 million debt facility with three international banks to refinance existing project loans and to fund the development of its third gold mine − the Yaouré gold mine in central Côte d’Ivoire

The Asian Development Bank is to open an office in Singapore to focus on lending to private sector infrastructure operations

Politicians and lobbyists are fighting legislation put before US Congress last week that would reauthorise US Exim beyond a September 2019 expiration date

DFIs led by the African Development Bank (AfDB) will sign with the government of Ghana a $81.7 million debt package for the $113.27 million first phase of the 695km Eastern Corridor Development Programme

US-based due diligence firm RedRidge Diligence Services has appointed Tom McClay as a director in its New York office

The respective export credit agencies of South Africa and the UAE have signed a memorandum of understanding to work together to enhance bilateral trade and economic relations between the two countries

Last night the great and the good of trade and export finance gathered in London to toast the winners of this year’s Trade Finance Awards

Australia, Japan and the US – as part of the Indo Pacific Infrastructure Initiative – have selected a liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea as their first $1 billion investment

Asian Development Bank has awarded a legal advisory mandate to assist Myanmar’s Ministry of Construction in enhancing road concessions, following a nearly three-month evaluation of the four shortlisted teams

The board of directors at Shanghai-based New Development Bank has approved two transport loans worth a combined $670 million to China

The US Trade and Development Agency has signed a grant with South African mining developer Anglo American for the feasibility study of a coalbed methane (CBM) extraction project in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

Energias de Portugal’s renewables subsidiary, EDP Renovaveis, has closed a €150 million loan with the European Investment Bank