The past year saw significant changes occur across the financial sector. AI became deeply embedded in day-to-day work, digital currencies moved from the margins toward mainstream pilots, and trade networks… read more →

Instant payments are being hailed far and wide as the new frontier in transaction banking, making transaction fees and processing times as much a relic of the past as travellers’… read more →

Trafigura v Gupta, the London High Court trial that has been gripping the global commodities scene for over a month, concluded today as both sides made their closing statements. The… read more →

Tourists coming to the UK are often shocked by the institution of a pint. In celebration or in sorrow, at breakfast, lunch, or dinner. An average pint in London costs… read more →

As tariffs and geopolitical developments reconfigure the global trade landscape at breakneck speed, players in the trade finance sphere have no choice but to turn towards digitisation to stay afloat. … read more →

No matter what you think of artificial intelligence (AI) – revolutionary technology or overblown fad – it seems clear that, for better or worse, it is set to fundamentally shape… read more →

In the early days of cartography, map makers would trace the borders of the known world and, once they got to the end of the lands they knew, write “hic… read more →

On 17 November, the London High Court began hearing one of commodities’ most high-profile fraud cases in recent memory: Trafigura’s announcement in early 2023 that it had been subject to… read more →

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 →