A judgment handed down by the English Commercial Court in 2018 illustrates how trade finance banks can find themselves facing unexpected risks when things go wrong in their customers’ trading… read more →
Loans are provided to wholesalers and manufacturers for export companies for them to repay later on. These export trade corporations usually focus on mining, energy and soft products like agriculture,… read more →
MIT (Micro Informatique & Technologies SA) announced today that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG) has successfully gone live with MIT’s TRAC (Trade Risk Active Control) system. TRAC is a… read more →
It was recently announced that Federated Investors, Inc. one of the largest investment managers in the United States, and the International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), member of the Islamic… read more →
I had the pleasure of interviewing Quan Le, CEO of Binkabi, who is developing not just one but 2 world’s firsts: a blockchain-based commodity exchange and a cross-border commodity marketplace… read more →
Rapeseed is the 3rd most produced oilseed complex in the world after palm and soybean. It’s an important production – 75mn tonnes of rapeseed are produced each year. But what’s… read more →
The “bitcoin mania” – referring to the tulip mania of the seventeenth century – has lost its momentum. However, what should really be looked at is the technology behind the… read more →
Structured Commodity Finance Conference 2018 TFG partnered with the Structured Commodity Finance Conference today, here’s a quick summary of what was covered on structured commodities. What happened at the Structured… read more →
Structured Commodity Finance Conference 2018 London will play host to the Structured Commodity Finance Conference on the 17th – 18th April 2018, attracting high-level participants from the structured commodity space.… read more →
China has seen a proliferate rise in the demand for avocados in recent years, hitting imports of 25,000 tonnes as of 2016, a considerable leap from the somewhat modest 154… read more →
