There is significant potential for factoring across the Americas, from Cape Horn in Argentina all the way up to Canada. Marina Azzara, Regional Director for the Americas at FCI, told… read more →
Geopolitical shocks are now feeding through to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) faster than ever before. As operating across global supply chains, customer bases, and supplier networks becomes the norm… read more →
As the European, Middle East, and African (EMEA) regions continue to be plagued by instability, it begs the question: how are financiers managing the increasingly complicated nature of cross-border transactions?… read more →
Glencore, the commodity trading giant, has today announced its adoption of global technology provider FIS’ Supply Chain Finance Platform (formerly Demica) to inaugurate its trade receivables securitisation programme in oil… read more →
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents can now plan, negotiate, and optimise a $2.4 million cross-border shipment in under half a second. They can match supplier terms, verify tokenised documents, pull live… read more →
The credit and political risk landscape has, in the past year, been driven by significant fluctuations in geopolitics and trade, whether in tariff wars or actual wars, while technological developments… 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 →
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 →
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 →
