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.
Walk through a bustling wholesale market in Mumbai, and it is impossible to miss the sheer variety of produce piled high in the stalls, such as fragrant spices, crates of… read more →
When we termed this article series the TFG “tariff tracker,” we were aiming for, if nothing else, a descriptive title, assuming the worst we would be covering would be high… read more →
Rerouted trade corridors, regional fragmentation, a currency arms race… these are no longer distant possibilities. They are active geopolitical and macroeconomic forces, reshaping transactional banking. At this year’s BAFT Global… read more →
As cliché as it sounds, transaction banking is in constant transition. In today’s era of continuous innovation, transaction banking still sticks out as the most dynamic and fast-changing area of… read more →
