The pilot, targeted at SME freight forwarders, is expected to make B2B payments more secure and transparent. The pilot recently completed its first transaction at Hong Kong International Airport (managed… read more →
In recent years, the wave of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies has swept across nearly all aspects of our human experiences: AI adoption has nearly tripled in the last… read more →
At the Money 20/20 Europe conference in Amsterdam this year, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Rosie McConnell, Product Director at IFX Payments, on the single biggest trend she had… read more →
A narrative growing louder in the African market is the appetite for intraregional trade. Historically, trade volumes between, say, Cameroon and France have been larger than with Cameroon’s regional neighbours,… read more →
In the age of real-time payments, compliance pressures, and digital disruption, the financial industry faces a paradox where the faster money moves, the more difficult it becomes to keep infrastructure… read more →
This synergy largely comes from a mutual understanding that more needs to be done to help uplift smaller parties in the financial ecosystem: underrepresented groups of society, small and medium-sized… read more →
Mahika Ravi Shankar (MRS): How can DFIs incentivise local institutional investors and pension funds to participate in domestic capital markets? Daniela Barrdear (DB): DFIs, and let’s also include some multilaterals… read more →
Since the general downturn in the cryptocurrency market in 2022, stablecoins—crypto tokens pegged to a fiat asset like the US dollar—have steadily taken over more of the cryptocurrency market. Investors… read more →
The SWIFT network, operated by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, facilitates secure messaging between financial institutions globally. Abdelkader Husriyeh, governor of Syria’s central bank, told Reuters that a… read more →
Earlier this week, global trade technology company IQAX became the first in the world to have its electronic bill of lading (eBL) solution go live with the Digital Container Shipping… read more →
