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

This week, at a House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee hearing on CBDCs, Sir Jon Cunliffe, deputy governor for financial stability at the Bank of England, revealed some interesting findings on the potential impacts of Britcoin.

With environmental issues now a top priority for the investment world, Alastair Sewell’s undergraduate degree in biology is finally paying off.

The cessation of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, will be one of the most important events affecting trade finance this year.

A new report by Euler Hermes has found that the UK economy is “trapped by policy choices” going into the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022.

South Africa’s Standard Bank has launched a new digital payments partnership with Africa-based fintech Flutterwave. Under the terms of the deal, Standard Bank customers in eight African countries will be… read more →

UK development finance fund CDC Group has committed to a $30 million trade finance loan to Bangladesh’s Prime Bank. The loan facility, which will enable Prime Bank to extend more… read more →

French international bank BNP Paribas has executed a green repurchase agreement (repo) transaction with state-owned utility company Électricité de France (EDF). The two companies have worked jointly to structure and… read more →

Commodity trade finance fraud and losses, along with trade finance digitization, have emerged as common themes in trade finance recently.

LONDON – 13 September 2021 – Kroll – the world’s premier provider of services and digital products related to governance, risk and transparency- has published its newest report revealing that the world’s biggest… read more →