Tag: eca

Trade finance volumes dropped 32% year-on-year for 2013, according to Dealogic submissions-based data; however, syndicated trade almost tripled.

Mitsubishi UFJ has beaten HSBC to become the top trade finance bank for the first nine months of 2012, but volumes are badly down.

Dealogic released its tables monitoring trade finance for the first half of 2012. ECA-backed deals dominated the majority of deals globally, alongside HSBC who topped the charts.

Global trade finance volumes are falling at a worrying level. Government-backed export credit agency financing is taking the slack but it can't do it all.