Over 60,000 metric tonnes of gasoline have been sent from India to Russia, as first reported by Reuters on Wednesday, 1 July. This follows an ongoing fuel shortage in Russia,… read more →
From the European Union’s (EU) Critical Raw Materials Act to the US’ Inflation Reduction Act, critical minerals have become a cornerstone of modern industrial strategy. Governments worldwide have committed billions… read more →
“Everyone talks about the minerals. There’s so many”, US President Donald Trump said. “There’s no such thing as rare earth. There’s rare processing. But there’s so much rare earth” The… read more →
The ostensible answer is the provision of liquidity, but in the modern age, the answer is not so obvious. The successive shocks of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and… read more →
In an increasingly uncertain world, it can be oddly comforting to know that some risks persist no matter the geopolitical environment. Among them is currency risk, which affects almost anyone… read more →
A small London audit firm has been fined and banned from major audit work after regulators found it repeatedly failed to challenge suspicious accounting at companies linked to Sanjeev Gupta’s… read more →
For years, trade credit insurance (TCI) has operated as one of the quiet yet indispensable pillars of global commerce, allowing traders to extend credit, pursue new markets, and navigate the… read more →
On Thursday, 11 June, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced it has extended a $20 million trade finance line to Bank of Africa-Benin (BOA-BENIN), aiming to boost… read more →
On Monday, 8 June, British mining company Total Graphite announced that it has changed its feasibility study for a graphite mining project in Montepuez, Mozambique, to ensure it can support… read more →
As the global energy transition heats up, one continent that we must watch carefully is Africa. The continent is known to hold significant natural resources, especially some of the most… read more →
