The US securities regulator has charged the founder of trade finance fintech Triterras with fraud, alleging that transactions were arranged “off-line” and added to its platform later to inflate ...

The US Treasury Secretary has praised Santander for reportedly withdrawing from a Gunvor credit facility after Washington branded the oil trader “the Kremlin’s puppet”. US Treasury chief Scott Bessent ...

Sustainable finance is the backbone of the energy transition, but has historically faced challenges around cost, fragmentation and competing priorities. The European Bank for Reconstruction and ...

Lawyers for Prateek Gupta this week urged a London court to find that two senior Trafigura metals traders colluded to further a fraudulent nickel trading scheme that ultimately lost the company some ...

Addressing the finance gap for SMEs across Africa will require the continent’s factoring volumes to leap by 380%, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has said. While Africa’s factoring ...

Global trade and economic growth are set to slow down due to geopolitical instability, according to the latest iteration of the UN Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) annual report. Global trade rose by ...

Policymakers in Brussels and capitals across the continent have been preoccupied in recent years by how Europe can be more competitive against the economic might of China and the US. Export finance, ...

Mercuria has upsized its North American borrowing base facility for another year, closing a US$4bn deal with a pool of 23 lenders. The commodity trader said it saw “strong lender appetite” for the one ...

Sriram Muthukrishnan landed at DBS Bank in 2018 after an already impressive trade finance career spanning several years at Standard Chartered, HSBC and ABN Amro. Having initially joined the ...

At a roundtable hosted in Paris by Willis, a WTW business, leading voices from French banks, insurers and brokers reflected on the growing sophistication and challenges of the credit and political ...

Crédit Agricole CIB has inked a strategic agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) that will see the lender build a portfolio of guarantees for wind energy totalling up to €1bn. The EIB will ...

There is a new battleground in Iranian sanctions evasion. In 2025, for the first time, US enforcement actions targeted companies accused of blending Iranian and Iraqi oil to disguise its origin, and ...