While the imperative to address climate change remains universal, the standards required to achieve sustainability objectives are decidedly not. Western environmental, social, and governance (ESG) frameworks for sustainable financing prove… 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.

Banks operating today are facing a myriad of challenges, from tariff adaptation to tech adoption. Multinational institutions must further grapple with changing regulations in a number of jurisdictions, on top… read more →

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 →

Mauritius, the tiny island country off the coast of East Africa, has been hailed as an African financial miracle. Despite its remote location and population of just over a million… read more →

Trade digitisation permeates nearly every conversation about the future of supply chain finance, and that trade finance ecosystems are evolving faster than ever before amidst mounting macroeconomic pressures and exciting… 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 →

Intra-African trade still accounts for less than 20% of Africa’s total trade flows. But geopolitical tensions, and in particular, self-inflicted carving out of the US from international trade networks, have… read more →

The global trade finance gap remains stuck at an alarming $2.5 trillion – a shortfall that disproportionately impacts small businesses in emerging economies and highlights the urgent need for new… read more →