The deal, signed on Monday in Cotonou, will provide guarantees of up to 100% to confirming banks for letters of credit and similar trade finance instruments issued by BOA-Benin, enabling… read more →
The investment will support AgDevCo’s financing of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in rural areas producing high-impact crops, contributing to sustainable development and regional food security. AgDevCo, founded in 2009,… read more →
The facility, arranged for Paraguay’s Banco Continental, sees the OPEC Fund and CBD each contribute £20 million to support lending to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), intended to bolster agricultural… read more →
At Commodity Trading Week held in London, Deepesh Patel, Editorial Director, Trade Finance Global, sat with Dr Sadar Abdul Rasheed, Director, Commodity Risk Control at Savola Group to discuss the implications of carbon, decarbonisation, ESG, and climate risk for the commodity traders and commodity markets.
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, launched a new initiative to aid financial service providers in delivering funds to small businesses in emerging markets, with a particular focus on those owned by women and those in the agriculture and climate sectors.
The European Union is on track to introduce tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus as a measure to support its farmers and address the concerns of certain member states, according to officials with knowledge of the discussions who spoke on Tuesday.
MC13 has been extended by an additional day, entering its fifth day, as countries continue negotiations on key agreements.
The World Bank has granted nearly $300 million to the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) to enhance distributed renewable energy (DRE) and clean cooking ventures within… read more →
Recent British-Canadian free trade negotiations have been put on hold due to market access barriers – find out why.
Tom Vilsack, the Secretary of Agriculture, revealed that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will allocate $2.3 billion to assist American agricultural producers in sustaining and expanding their market… read more →
