The UK has a new trade commissioner to Africa. On June 23, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the UK’s international trade secretary appointed John Humphrey to the role of Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner… read more →
AMS Ameropa Marketing and Sales AG, a fully owned subsidiary of Ameropa, today announced completing the full refinancing of its $750 million revolving credit facility, for an amount of $1.1… read more →
Financial technology solutions provider MonetaGo has been selected by the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) to deliver the Trade Finance Registry (TFR), an interoperable industry utility that bridges information silos between banks to combat duplicate financing fraud.
The UK’s Department of International Trade has announced a five-year partnership with Barclays bank to ‘broaden, deepen and sharpen’ efforts to promote trade with UK plc. What could this mean… read more →
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has released its fintech collaboration guidelines – a 23-page document aimed at helping fintechs collaborate with each other and other institutions The guidelines highlight… read more →
Two, the business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce payments platform, and Allianz Trade, the trade credit insurance provider, have formed a partnership to grow the ‘buy now pay later’ (BNPL) finance market for… read more →
Backing helps UK businesses to support the construction of hospitals, electric railways, and offshore wind projects across the globe. UK Export Finance (UKEF) awarded over £3.6 billion to clean energy,… read more →
Bank of China (Hong Kong) (BOCHK) today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to become a member of the Alliance for Green Commercial Banks (the Alliance). The Asia chapter of… read more →
The VIVE Programme announced that the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has joined the VIVE Sustainable Supply Programme and will be completing the shipping module in 2022. MSC is a container… read more →
UK exporters are the least optimistic in Europe due to a combination of uncertainty caused by Brexit, the conflict in Ukraine, and disrupted supply chains, according to Allianz Trade. This… read more →
Over the last ten years, nature dependent exports accounted for 40% of annual world trade ($7.4 trillion) – 36% of which stemmed from non-democratic regimes, as defined by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index.
The EU Federation (EUF) for Factoring and Commercial Finance has released its latest round of statistics, which indicates a strong recovery of factoring following the pandemic-induced decline from the previous… read more →
FCI, the global representative body for factoring and financing of open account domestic and international trade receivables, has released their latest world factoring statistics. This 2021 report indicates that the… read more →
Accordion to the ONS latest statistics release, the twelve-month trailing inflation rate in the UK rose to 9% in April – the highest level since the current ONS data set began in 1989.
Surecomp® today announced the launch of its new collaborative trade finance platform RIVO™, bringing together an ecosystem of corporates, financial institutions, and fintechs. The cloud-based solution is a digital hub… read more →