In today's daily round-up of export, trade and commodity finance news, TXF's Max Thompson covers the latest stories and trends across the market:

Ex-HSBC head of export finance Peter Luketa has joined Cranmore Partner

Afreximbank has closed a $500m Chexim-backed facility

US grain merchant Archer Daniels Midland has looked at buying rivals, including Bunge and dozens of other companies, but decided the time is not right for "monster" acquisitions

SWIFT has published a standard for pay later APIs with the aim to help the adoption of this consumer payment model

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