Clothes “What you don’t know is that that sweater is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean.” Miranda Priestly’s impassioned speech on the complexity of… read more →
Trade finance has always been constrained by the speed of money, not the speed of commerce. Goods move faster than cash, and while invoices can be issued instantly, settlement, liquidity… read more →
By 2035, European states will spend $316 billion annually on defence equipment, marking an over 500% increase from 2014 levels, according to projections by the International Trade and Forfeiting Association… read more →
Trains in Laos are spotless, efficient, and deploy advanced technology. It’s almost paradoxical, given it sits between Angola and Djibouti in terms of global GDP, 131st of 190. Trains reflect… read more →
Foreign exchange (FX) poses a unique problem for the trade finance industry. The global scale of commodity finance leaves vendors negotiating a huge variety of international jurisdictions, regulations, and currencies… read more →
Bhutan, a landlocked Himalayan kingdom of just over 800,000 people, is also the world’s first carbon-negative country, with one of the most ambitious crypto-mining extravaganzas ever seen. In 2023, Bhutan’s… read more →
Volatility is no longer an event-driven, periodic state of affairs. The past couple of years have seen supply chains get completely reconfigured as a result of geopolitical turmoil, and as… read more →
South-East Asia has moved beyond the label of “emerging” and into something far more consequential: a payments-first economic region operating at real scale. The region’s digital economy is on track… read more →
The global halal economy, estimated at $40 trillion, is among the fastest-growing sectors of the international economy. The sector’s compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.3% is underpinned by a… read more →
As the Trump administration conditions market access on forced labour commitments, such commitments have moved from the margins of trade policy to its core. Nowhere is that shift more consequential… read more →
