Asia Pacific

Thirteen banks from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) bloc serving mostly small and medium enterprises (SMEs) reaffirmed their cooperation to better serve SMEs during a recent meeting in Manila, Philippines.

As the euro zone crisis progresses, major western banks give up their positions in Asian trade finance scene to finance providers, with Asian roots.

Ricardo Elias joins Bhriguraj Singh's team.

Richard Burton will head Coface Group in Asia Pacific.

BNI joins eleven Japanese lenders to boost SME loans.

Two providers of IT solutions for transaction banking and payments, will jointly offer electronic financial supply chain services

As European banks are rushing to raise their capital ratios, they have to repatriate some of the money from Asia, leaving gaps in the region s trade-finance supply.

Factorscan reports on BCR Publishing's Receivables Finance International: Asia Pacific 2011, that took place last week in the factoring centre of China, Tianjin.

Atradius has extended its partnership with fellow insurance group Tokio Marine Asia to begin issuing trade credit policies in four more Southeast Asian countries.

Following his successful appearance at RFIx in Rome this March, Mark Mandula, Managing Partner at United Capital Funding Corp, will be discussing global trends in the marketing of professional factoring services at BCR s Receivables Finance International Asia Pacific