Jenny Messenger is a Freelance Journalist at Inside Housing and Global Trade Review (GTR). She specializes in areas such as banking, financial services, and international affairs, with a strong focus on capital markets, economic policy, and the global economy. Her work has been featured in prominent publications, showcasing her insights on geopolitics, current affairs, and the impacts of digitization on the economy.
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Jenny Messenger's coverage mainly focuses on content and publishing, with a significant portion dedicated to finance and economy. Her articles touch upon various topics such as supply chains, ESG, fossil fuel finance, anti-greenwashing, trade credit insurance, receivables finance, oil and gas export credit, infrastructure investment, trade finance among others.
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By: Jenny Messenger
Lloyd’s has launched a market consortium dedicated to marine war risk, as the insurance market looks to provide extra cover for vessels navigating the Strait of Hormuz. The consortium will issue primary policies for vessels and cargo, covering specific war, terrorism, piracy and related risks, Lloyd’s said. It can provide up to US$200mn of cover…
By: Jenny Messenger
JP Morgan has signed a deal to provide a US$250mn trade finance facility to Turkish lender VakıfBank to fund recyclable steel scrap and renewable energy imports. The agreement is 95% backed by the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (Miga), part of the World Bank Group, under its trade finance guarantee programme – the first time this…
By: Jenny Messenger
Ukrainian firms have signed a plethora of deals to rebuild the country’s war-torn energy sector, including several with export credit agencies (ECAs) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). The deals include financing for a 60MW wind farm in Lviv and a pledge from the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US…
By: Jenny Messenger
Crédit Agricole CIB has launched a platform that uses AI to help corporates track the ESG performance of their value chains. The lender says it is Asia Pacific’s first ESG-linked, AI-powered trade finance solution. The product, dubbed Smart Platform Assisted SustainablE (Spase), uses trade transaction data to create what the bank describes as “a…
By: Jenny Messenger
A series of “mega-transactions” in the transport, energy and defence sectors has pushed medium and long-term (MLT) cross-border credit cover to “new highs”, rising 17.5% year on year. According to the Berne Union’s State of the Industry Report 2025, out this week, “goliath cruise ship transactions” and several large energy transition projects drove MLT…
Patrik Zekkar has stepped down from technology firm Enigio to co-found a new venture with Spyridon Kogkas that aims to bridge the gap between real-world trade and digital assets. Zekkar is taking on the role of partner at EGM Foundry, as well as board member and chief trade infrastructure officer at agricultural commodity trading…
By: Jenny Messenger
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has made its first investment in Senegal, providing a trade finance facility of up to €15mn to Ecobank Senegal as well as support for SMEs. The European lender said the trade finance facility, delivered under its Trade Facilitation Programme, aims to boost the country’s imports and exports,…
BB Energy has inked a one year, US$272.5mn “flagship” revolving credit facility with a number of international banks. The facility has an accordion option of US$400mn and a one-year optional extension. It will be used to refinance a maturing facility signed in July 2025, as well as for general corporate purposes, the commodities trading firm…
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A consortium of firms is set to trial solutions using electronic bills of lading (eBLs), a digital pound and stablecoins to improve SME access to trade finance, as part of the Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab. Nobo Finance, Dun & Bradstreet and Polygon Labs will participate in phase two of the Digital Pound Lab, described as “an experimental platform” that creates a “simulated environment to test the potential capabilities of a digital pound”. One workstream will test whether stablecoins and a digital pound can enable “near-instant”…
By: Jenny Messenger
Standard Bank CIB has provided a US$29mn social documentary credit facility to telecommunications tower firm Helios Towers, marking a sustainability first for the lender. Helios Towers builds, acquires and operates shared telecommunications towers across Africa, enabling mobile network operators to extend their coverage on the continent. The new facility will allow Helios Towers to…
