Finance Types

What is the difference between Red Clause and Green Clause Letters of Credit? Definition and explanation of Red and Green LCs by Trade Finance Global

We spoke to Jacco de Jong, Managing Director, essDOCS Consulting about his history and career in trade finance, as well as his views on recent changes and the future of… read more →

Invoice finance in Australia: Introducing Skippr, Innovating and Disrupting the Australian Invoice Finance Market Australia’s debt finance market is booming, although invoice finance is still in its infancy. Total invoice… read more →

There is much talk over what is behind the low prices and where the market is going. At TFG we see that there is rising energy demand and supply pressure.… read more →

What is export factoring? When a deal or trade happens between a buyer and a seller, the seller will ship the goods and raise an invoice for the buyer to… read more →

Gary Howes from Pound Sterling Live gives a market update for Trade Finance Global. The most recent Commitments of Traders report issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission shows the… read more →

We spoke to Natalie Jonk, the founder of Walacea, a crowdfunding platform for science projects. Natalie previously worked in the pharmaceutical industry, working primarily in a “science behind the sales/compliance… read more →

We spoke to Sarah Walker, who is the UK Lead of Alternative Finance at KPMG about her thoughts on the alternative finance sector and where it is headed, following NESTA’s… read more →

Why should I compare invoice factoring or invoice discounting providers? There are several bank and non-bank providers of invoice finance, from large instutions to small alternative funders, each offering different… read more →

#PanamaLeaks Leaked documents of hidden money from Putin, his friends and the world’s rich have got everyone talking! It has been outlined that secret offshore deals and huge loans worth… read more →

The relentless decline in sterling, witnessed since December 2015, appears to be slowing. Those watching currency markets in wait of a stronger British pound for their international payments have given… read more →

Fleximize, established in 2014, is a lender pledging to ease the funding crunch hitting up-and-coming businesses. We spoke to Max Chmyshuk about how Fleximize came about, and how it plans… read more →

Factoring companies work to finance many different types of businesses by having funding arrangements or a method whereby a business owner factors its receivable accounts (mostly invoices) at a discount… read more →

The ECB stimulus – what is happening? The European Central Bank is basically offering financial institutions free money – The ECB has reduced the eurozone interest rates to zero, increased… read more →

Trade finance is advancing hugely in Asia, and we were excited to speak to Steve Beck, the head of the Trade Finance Program at Asian Development Bank (ADB), on the… read more →