In our latest podcast, TFG’s Deepesh Patel spoke to ITFA’s Silja Calac & Jean-Maurice Elkouby of ING about taking on Europe’s credit risk insurance rules

This article was co-authored by:

– Arun Prakash, strategy officer for trade and commodity finance at IFC
– Dennis Ochieng, economist at IFC
– Shanshan Li, consultant at IFC

In this article, SACE’s Irene Gambelli discusses the support provided by Italy’s export credit agency to SMEs during and after the pandemic, with an increasing focus on green finance

Letters of credit, forfaiting, factoring, export finance, and trade credit insurance: the most popular trade finance techniques companies are using in international trade

Each day, mountains of trade finance data are delivered to banks, requiring urgent processing to support the flow of goods around the world. 

Although UCP 600 and ISBP 745 offer no specific provisions for partial confirmations of letters of credit (LCs), MonetaGo’s Tat Yeen Yap says they are not only possible, but are “straightforward and efficient”.

As the clocks struck midnight, we looked back at over 700 articles, handpicking our favourite stories that made the headlines in 2021

Like many organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) has had to adapt to a changing business landscape.

Global fintech brand SCHUMANN has announced that it has founded a new subsidiary based in London, UK. Registered as SCHUMANN International Ltd, the new subsidiary aims to give SCHUMANN a… read more →

A new report has found that UK exports could take until 2023 to return to pre-pandemic levels, leaving Britain playing catch-up to other G7 economies such as Germany.  In its… read more →