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Featured Articles
Emerging markets roundtable: understanding and addressing the trade finance challenges for SMEs
This year’s ITFA 48th Annual Trade & Forfaiting conference, held in Porto, covered a few key themes, one of the most notable being the increasing trade finance gap, which impacts small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets the most.
Credit insurance company Atradius on political risk, emerging markets, digitalisation
TFG’s Annie Kovacevic sat down with Gordon Cessford, president of Atradius US and regional head of Atradius in North America to understand more about political risks, emerging markets, and digitalisation.
TFG Weekly Trade Briefing, 26th September 2022
Your weekly coffee briefing from TFG: E-rules for trade explained – URDTT, eURC, and eUCP
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VIDEO: George Wilson on African SMEs, FX, and sustainability
With a global energy and food crisis peaking, alongside hiking inflationary rates and geopolitical tensions, it may seem that the road ahead for the African continent is not as straightforward as one would hope. Speaking to George Wilson, head of institutional trade finance at Investec, Trade Finance Global (TFG) was able to find out more about the African eco-system.
VIDEO: E-rules for trade explained – URDTT, eURC, and eUCP
During a panel at ICC Austria’s Trade Finance Week, moderator Tomasch Kubiak, policy manager at the ICC Global Banking Commission, spoke with panellists Gabriele Katz, director of global transaction banking at Deutsche Bank; Angela Koll, senior business expert for trade and supply chain finance at Commerzbank; and David Meynell, owner of TradeLC Advisory and senior technical advisor to the ICC Global Banking Commission.
VIDEO: Trade finance in Ukraine: a rallying call for industry members
TFG interviews Ukrainian trade finance experts to learn about the state of the industry and how the international banking community can help.
Keynote – Berne Union’s export credit insurance update and progressing climate change action
TFG spoke to the acting head of the Berne Union to find out what he believes they can do to affect wider issues like climate change.
Video: A view on Asian trade – key themes
At the BAFT global annual meeting in May, TFG sat down with heads of trade to discuss the current state of trade in Asia.
We still need humans! Veridapt and DrumRisk on bridging the physical and financial commodity supply chains using technology
We currently live in uncertain times, both geopolitically, and from a macroeconomic perspective. TFG asked two risk management experts for their take on how businesses can navigate through this period of economic volatility.
Webinars & Tradecasts
Tradecast – The umbrella that doesn’t open? The future of credit insurance
Presented by Trade Finance Global and Tinubu TFG has joined forces with Tinubu to present a virtual tradecast, looking at 4 different sectors of the trade credit insurance industry, and… read more →
Sibos Tradecast – the future of global trade and supply chain finance
Presented by Trade Finance Global and Bank of America Trade Finance Global hears from global experts in trade and tradetech, giving a helicopter view on global trade and supply chain… read more →
Tradecast – Supply Chain 4.0
Presented by Trade Finance Global and Finastra COVID-19 has shifted global value chains in unprecedented ways which will likely see no new ‘normal’. As behaviours, purchasing trends and trade are… read more →
Tradecast – Sustainable Trade Finance
Presented by Trade Finance Global and ITFA Trade finance has a significant role to play in sustainable development and ESG, which extends to addressing global challenges around climate change, human… read more →
Tradecast! MSME inclusion in global trade
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are one of the strongest drivers of economic development, innovation and employment. Access to finance is often identified as a critical barrier to growth… read more →
Tradecast – Looking Beyond COVID-19
China, ‘the world’s factory’ and home to $4 trillion in manufacturing output, is home to a significant proportion of confirmed cases of COVID-19. Now in shock, domestic factory output has… read more →
Conferences
ExCred Americas
October 5, 2022
Sibos 2022
October 10, 2022
ACI’s 4th Conference on U.S.-China Trade Controls
October 12, 2022
ICC International Trade & Prosperity Conference
October 17, 2022
Commodities Trading Europe 2022
November 22, 2022
2022 BAFT Global Councils Forum
October 9, 2022
TFG News Wire
Resilience and developments of factoring in CEE and SEE regions
On Friday, 23 September 2022, FCI, in partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), held the latest conference on the resilience and development of factoring in Central… read more →
Finastra and Visa announce a BaaS collaboration to ease cross-border payment capabilities
Finastra and Visa announced a Banking as a Service (BaaS) collaboration on September 22, 2022. This partnership will co-develop new features for Finastra’s Payments Hub solutions. It will also implement… read more →
VERIDAPT partners with SGTraDex to bring greater transparency to trade flow
VERIDAPT, a digitised commodity monitoring management company, joined forces with Singapore Trade Data Exchange (SGTraDex) to provide banks, traders, and terminal operators with a new trade flow platform. SGTraDex, a… read more →
TFG and Tinubu’s virtual tradecast now on demand
On the 14th of September, Trade Finance Global and Tinubu‘s virtual tradecast, looking at 4 different sectors of the trade credit insurance industry and how they have been impacted by the COVID-19… read more →
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