UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves published the government’s yearly Budget last week, a much-awaited look into the government’s fiscal and spending plans for the next year and more.… read more →
While AI’s impact on fraud detection falls short of what many had hoped, its potential is shining elsewhere. In the payments sphere, AI is enabling faster processing times and more… read more →
How can you quantify pressure? For commodity traders, who operate under a unique blend of complex sanctions, regulatory scrutiny, and wholly unpredictable geopolitics, it’s clear the pressure is on. And… read more →
Mythbusting Myth: Agentic AI in insurance will use a single-model interface Reality: A multi-agent approach has been viewed increasingly favourably. Agentic AI will deploy multiple specialist agents: one fine-tuned for… read more →
While attention on Africa abounds, news stories often focus on geopolitical developments or trade agreements – missing a crucial part of the story. Behind the scenes, far from negotiating rooms… read more →
Few things on this planet are clearly visible from space: the Pyramids of Giza, the Amazon Rainforest, the Himalayan mountain range. Now, pools of blood saturating the ground of Sudan… read more →
It’s often easier to ship from Lagos to London than it is from Lagos to Nairobi: a fact which illustrates the nascent stages of intercontinental transport in the continent, but… read more →
As the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) transitions from reporting obligations to financial enforcement, the question of who bears the cost – and at what magnitude – is… read more →
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) – the world’s most resource-rich region and home to much of the global commodity market – is not growing. A recent IMF report found a significant slowdown… read more →
Africa’s $120 billion trade finance gap isn’t just about capital scarcity, but about information asymmetry. Traditional environmental, sustainability, and governance (ESG) assessments may ask companies whether they have a supply chain policy, but that’s not what trade financiers really need to know.
