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Global Supply Chain Finance Ltd. (GSCF) has become an approved vendor of services by The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, New York Branch (MUFG), having signed a Master Services Agreement and activated reportedly the first receivables-based program for a large multinational company financed by MUFG

Following the merger between Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Factors Group (IFG), trfnews met with Peter Mulroy - FCI’s Secretary General, Michel Leblanc - Chairman of FCI’s Executive Committee, Erik Timmermans – FCI’s Deputy Secretary General and Josep Selles - Vice Chairman to discuss the impact of the merger, future plans and the state of the industry in general

Supply chain finance predictions for 2016 will be a hot topic at BCR’s Supply Chain Finance Summit on 28-29 January in Frankfurt. With an impressive range of corporates already booked in to attend, it promises to be an event not to be missed

The Board of Directors of Coface has appointed Xavier Durand to the position of Chief Executive Officer

Registration is now open for the 2016 ICC Banking Commission Annual Meeting, which will be held for the first time in Africa – in Johannesburg, South Africa – on 4-7 April

According to an internal announcement from Shawbrook - seen by BCR, Steve Pateman joined Shawbrook as CEO in January 2016 from Santander UK, where he was Executive Director and Head of UK Banking

Following the merger between Factors Chain International (FCI) and International Factors Group (IFG), trfnews met with Peter Mulroy - FCI’s Secretary General, Michel Leblanc - Chairman of FCI’s Executive Committee and Erik Timmermans – FCI’s Deputy Secretary General

After 12 years at Societe Generale, today is Mihaela Thiem’s last day at the company. She leaves the firm as Deputy Head of Branch, Germany

Moody's Investors Service has announced that Spanish environment and energy group Abengoa S.A.'s large-scale reverse factoring programme has debt-like features, which could have a significant, wide ranging impact on the industry in terms of balance sheet treatment

Trade Finance Solutions, which specializes in factoring, purchase order and asset-based lending programs a has announced they have provided a USD4m supply chain finance facility to a Dominican Republic-based farmer's association (Company)