Bracing for a leaner future
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Evo Morales's seizure of gasfields has sent shivers down the spines of foreign oil and gas companies with investments in the region. Luis Waldmann gauges the perceptions of po
Growing into its new economic clothes
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As China becomes the third largest trading economy in the world after the US and Germany, the trade and export finance markets are maturing, reports Kevin Godier.
Ahead of the International Forfaiting Association (IFA) annual meeting in Istanbul during September, Helen Castell asks forfaiters about pressing issues for the industry: type of deals, pricing, level of risks, markets targeted, and the role o
Taking the sting out of volatility
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The commodity price boom coupled with greater volatility has triggered a parallel boom in hedging products as trade finance users look to mitigate their risk profiles more aggre
Tales from Vienna
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Pavel Andrle , secretary to the Banking Commission for ICC Czech Republic and member of the UCP 500 Revision Consulting Group, gives the latest news from the ICC Banking Commission. He l
Back in business
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Indonesia is a busy trade finance market gradually shaking off its profile as one of Southeast Asia’s higher-risk countries, writes Kevin Godier .
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Large multinational oil and gas companies are taking a kicking in parts of Latin America, while Russia has been turning its westward-flowing oil pipelines on and off at will.
Risk management and claims handling
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Nina Hall , senior legal counsel at Omni Bridgeway Emerging Markets in London, looks at political risk insurance and investment treaty protection rights.
Balancing on the edge
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Recent volatility in global stock markets has re-awakened analysts’s doubts over the Philippines, which is seen as the most vulnerable of Asia’s large emerging economies to
Global power drive
The environment for power projects and equipment exports is now very favourable for financiers, exporters and developers, writes Philip Carter .\x{a0} Ageing stock, environmental clean-up and economic
Spain has two mega banks in Santander and BBVA. It also has several smaller banks that cater for clients’s trade finance needs. Philip Carter takes a look at the Spanish trade finance banking sector to discover what motivates and restrai
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From the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim)'s annual conference, GTR reports on the support the export credit agency has been lending to US exports.
