Law firm Mayer Brown has added structured finance specialist Michelle Herman to its global trade finance practice in New York. Herman has experience advising borrowers and lenders on structures ...

Mercore Capital, the lending arm of Mercore Group, has appointed Anne-Marie Woolley as chief executive officer.

Baft (the Bankers’ Association for Finance and Trade) has named Alexander Malaket as its head of trade following the ...

Natixis has appointed Nicolas Bouvier to a newly created position of head of core industries in the bank’s global trade division. Bouvier joined Natixis on September 1, the bank told GTR, following a ...

Trade finance fintech Komgo has made Tim-Emilien Tran Ngoc managing director for Asia Pacific. Tran Ngoc, previously global ...

Singapore lawyer Zhi Chao Chor has joined the finance practice of Stephenson Harwood as a partner. Chor made the move this ...

Artificial intelligence supply chains are highly concentrated among a small number of companies and countries, leaving entire regions and sectors dangerously exposed to geopolitical friction and ...

As fractured supply chains drive up working capital needs and AI infrastructure creates financing demands on an unprecedented scale, Asia’s banks and trade credit insurers are having to rethink how ...

Ebury has continued its international expansion by opening an office in New Zealand, eyeing growth from the country’s small and medium-sized traders. The UK-headquartered company, which specialises in ...

A director at a collapsed Singapore fuel trader was “asleep at the wheel” when he failed to stop employees fraudulently obtaining trade finance facilities from Société Générale and Maybank, court ...

Trafigura chief executive Richard Holtum says the commodity trading giant has undertaken a “significant governance and controls project” after suffering a US$1bn loss in a fraud scandal within its ...

First Brands founder Patrick James obtained finance against non-existent or doctored invoices, as well as inventory that had already been transferred, in order to fund his “lavish lifestyle”, the ...