John Basquill is a Senior Reporter at Global Trade Review (GTR). He specializes in areas such as banking, financial services, and energy, with a keen focus on emerging markets and international finance. His insights into energy policy and regulation, as well as topics like renewable energy and oil & gas, have earned him features in various respected publications.
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By: John Basquill
ING has named Remko van de Water as head of trade and commodity finance (TCF) for the Americas, following the March appointment of Cauê Todeschini as global TCF head. Effective July 1, the appointment expands his role as ING’s metals and mining sector head in the Americas, which he has held since 2008. Van de Water joined…
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Citi has announced the full launch of Citi Consolidate, a digital tool powered by Infor Nexus that automates invoice processing for buyers and accelerates access to financing for suppliers. The New York-headquartered lender said the solution digitises and automates buyers’ invoice approval, purchase order and payables processes, while also improving cash flow visibility through a repository of trade-related data. For suppliers,…
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Georgia’s Kulevi Oil Refinery has said it is committed to complying with EU and other applicable regulatory frameworks and will cooperate with authorities, after the bloc announced sanctions targeting its exports. The European Council said on July 23 it planned to impose a transaction ban on EU companies engaging with the Kulevi refinery, effective from January, due to its trading and processing of Russian oil. The Centre for Research…
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Maritime intelligence company Vortexa has warned that the crude oil market faces a potential supply crunch, driven by a “simultaneous collapse in exports” from Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and the US and a record drawdown of inventories. Iran’s exports have been significantly dented by the re-introduction of a US blockade outside the Strait of Hormuz,…
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North Carolina-headquartered First Citizens Bank has announced it will bring together its factoring, supply chain finance and asset-based lending businesses into a single working capital finance division. The bank has offered working capital finance products to mid-market companies under its CIT Commercial Services brand since a 2022 merger, but plans to bring these services together…
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Kazakhstan lender Bank CenterCredit has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to expand local firms’ access to trade finance products, with a particular focus on SMEs. IFC announced today that Almaty-headquartered Bank CenterCredit has joined its Global Trade Finance Program as both an issuing and confirming bank, meaning it can provide instruments such as…
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A US bankruptcy court has ruled that a proposal by First Brands to recover billions of dollars through lawsuits against non-bank lenders is “not feasible”, ordering instead that the company enters liquidation. First Brands’ court-appointed managers had proposed in June to establish a litigation trust, which would oversee claims and return funds to certain creditors…
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Market volatility and uncertainty tend to reduce the availability of bank-led trade finance, with the effects particularly acute in developing regions, a first-of-its-kind study has found. The study, carried out by economists from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), examined data from the ICC Trade Register, spanning more than 20…
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Supply chain finance platform PrimeRevenue has asked a Texas court to strike out or seal documents filed as part of First Brands’ bankruptcy proceedings, describing allegations made by other parties in the case as “scandalous and defamatory”. Before its infamous collapse in September last year, First Brands had used PrimeRevenue’s software platform as part of…
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The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has launched an investigation into its backing for Texas-based gas project Freeport LNG, following complaints from community leaders and environmental groups. The Japanese state-owned lender and export credit agency provided a US$2.6bn loan in 2014 to support the development of Freeport LNG, a major gas liquefaction and export…
