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Governments in the US and Europe are seeking to disrupt Russian exports in response to the country’s aggression in Ukraine, unveiling fresh sanctions targeting its development bank and export credit agency, and halting the approval of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.  The measures were announced on yesterday, following President Vladimir Putin’s statement that Russia ...

Japan’s SoftBank has accused Credit Suisse of using court proceedings as a means of “manufacturing claims” against the group, as the Swiss lender continues to pursue losses arising from the failure of Greensill.  The dispute relates to a receivables financing arrangement provided by Greensill to US construction company Katerra. Katerra ran into financial difficulties in ...

A UK High Court judge has found that ED&F Man was the victim of a warehouse receipts fraud that ensnared multiple banks in 2017, and has awarded the commodities trading house US$282mn in damages. The fraud, which became public in mid-2017, involved nickel stored at London Metals Exchange warehouses across Asia. It rattled a commodities ...

The first transactions have been completed on receivables finance company Polytrade’s newly launched technology platform, which works to link cryptocurrency investors to real-world trade finance assets. The trio of deals, completed earlier this month, supported sales by Indian companies to buyers based in the UK, New Zealand and the US. A spokesperson for Polytrade tells ...

DNB has promoted Georgina Rush to the position of head of working capital solutions, based in Stockholm. Rush was previously a vice-president in the working capital unit, joining the Norwegian lender in 2018 from Lloyds Bank in the UK. Rush is already working in the role and reports to Axel Berning, DNB’s head of transaction ...

The head of collapsed Dubai commodities trader Phoenix has been ordered to pay just over US$19mn to Maltese lender Fimbank after the firm failed to repay money it owed under a trade finance facility. The default judgement was handed down in the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts on January 28 after Gaurav Dhawan, Phoenix’s executive ...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has appointed Nana Khurodze as associate director and senior banker in its Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP). Before joining the EBRD, Khurodze spent just over six years at the Asian Development Bank, leading that institution’s trade finance programme in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Mongolia and Pakistan. Based in ...

The decision by Western countries to halt overseas fossil fuel financing has sparked alarm among Africa’s largest hydrocarbon exporters. But plans are afoot to create a new pan-African energy bank that can tackle waning oil and gas investment and drive up production across the continent. According to local media reports in Nigeria, the Nigerian National ...

Blockchain platform MineHub is further branching out into the financial aspect of the metals and mining supply chain, with the formation of a joint venture with asset management firm Kimura Capital. Under the joint venture, the two sides will collaborate on the launch of the Syndication Application, a standalone platform that will enable investors to ...

Commercial banks lent over US$1.5tn to companies in the global coal industry between 2019 and 2021, according to new research, despite a flurry of commitments to ease away from the sector and aim for net-zero emissions. Yesterday, a coalition of NGOs published an analysis of data compiled by Dutch sustainability research firm Profunda, which suggests ...