The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently announced a financial agreement with Equatorial Guinea for youth inclusion and employment, and a partnership with the Republic of Congo to expand its support… read more →
Africa’s $120 billion trade finance gap isn’t just about capital scarcity, but about information asymmetry. Traditional environmental, sustainability, and governance (ESG) assessments may ask companies whether they have a supply chain policy, but that’s not what trade financiers really need to know.
Walk through a bustling wholesale market in Mumbai, and it is impossible to miss the sheer variety of produce piled high in the stalls, such as fragrant spices, crates of… read more →
Trade digitisation permeates nearly every conversation about the future of supply chain finance, and that trade finance ecosystems are evolving faster than ever before amidst mounting macroeconomic pressures and exciting… read more →
Fluctuating local currencies and geopolitical instability are pushing Venezuelans and their government towards stablecoins like USDT, according to new reports. Venezuelans are increasingly looking towards stablecoins linked to safe global… read more →
When we termed this article series the TFG “tariff tracker,” we were aiming for, if nothing else, a descriptive title, assuming the worst we would be covering would be high… read more →
Last week, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Bank published a series of Digital Trade Reports reviewing the progress in key areas of digital trade of six Sub-Saharan… read more →
In 1878, just a few years after an early version of the incandescent lightbulb had been invented by English physicist Joseph Swan, a British parliamentary report on the new technology… read more →
Sanae Takaichi has made history by winning election as Japan’s prime minister today, on Tuesday, 21 October. She is the first woman to do so. Takaichi is now faced with… read more →
The ninth Annual African Financial Markets Index, launched today by multinational African bank Absa, shows a continent that has remained relatively stable despite tariff and geopolitical turbulence, where ambitious reforms… read more →
