LIBF’s Alex Gray discusses how trade finance education has evolved since the pandemic.
The WTO Director-General has extended the WTO Ministerial Conference by a day in a bid to secure some form of agreement around trade deals. With a potential food security crisis looming for developed countries, can an eleventh hour agreement be reached?
With technology revolutionising almost every area of business, TFG asked a number of fintech experts whether it also has a role to play in streamlining how trade finance applications are handled and processed to help unlock more trade finance liquidity.
Financial technology solutions provider MonetaGo has been selected by the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) to deliver the Trade Finance Registry (TFR), an interoperable industry utility that bridges information silos between banks to combat duplicate financing fraud.
The UK’s Department of International Trade has announced a five-year partnership with Barclays bank to ‘broaden, deepen and sharpen’ efforts to promote trade with UK plc. What could this mean… read more →
Certified Documentary Credit Specialist Ravi Jinugu explains the motivations and rationale for variation of Incoterms® rules.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has released its fintech collaboration guidelines – a 23-page document aimed at helping fintechs collaborate with each other and other institutions The guidelines highlight… read more →
Two, the business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce payments platform, and Allianz Trade, the trade credit insurance provider, have formed a partnership to grow the ‘buy now pay later’ (BNPL) finance market for… read more →
we.trade, a blockchain-based trade finance network owned by 12 European banks and IBM, told shareholders in May that it had run out of cash.
At the BAFT global annual meeting in May, TFG sat down with heads of trade to discuss the current state of trade in Asia.
Backing helps UK businesses to support the construction of hospitals, electric railways, and offshore wind projects across the globe. UK Export Finance (UKEF) awarded over £3.6 billion to clean energy,… read more →
The UN’s World Food Programme has warned that the failure to open Black Sea ports is a declaration of war on global food insecurity and will lead to famine, destabilisation of nations, and mass migration by necessity.
Bank of China (Hong Kong) (BOCHK) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to become a member of the Alliance for Green Commercial Banks (the Alliance). The Asia chapter of… read more →
The VIVE Programme announced that the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has joined the VIVE Sustainable Supply Programme and will be completing the shipping module in 2022. MSC is a container… read more →