European Union unveiled new legislation to help meet its goal of reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, including a controversial plan to tax foreign companies… read more →
The UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, CDC Group, has announced the close of a $30 trade finance loan to City Bank, one of Bangladesh’s top-performing private banks. Trade… read more →
The ICC has published its 2019 and 2020 interim findings from its Trade Register on the performance of short-term trade and supply chain finance assets.
The agreement aims at boosting trade development across the country’s agriculture, energy, healthcare, and private sectors over a period of five years. The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), a… read more →
Documentary credits are one of the oldest, most sophisticated, and safest payment instruments used in international trade.
UK Export Finance (UKEF) is launching a new guarantee scheme that will help importers of UK goods and services obtain easier access to financing up to £30 million.
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), colloquially termed ‘blockchain’ has been touted to disrupt trade and supply chain, as well it’s financing, for over 5 years. Following on from TFG, WTO and ICC’s ‘Periodic Table’ enlisting 39 projects in global trade utilising DLT, we’ve relaunched our table, indicating that the industry has considerably matured and evolved in less than 12 months.
The CFI.co judges have conferred on FCI the 2020 award for Best Trade Finance Innovator Global 2020. Highlights of the judging panel’s findings include: FCI is the global representative body for the factoring and open-account… read more →
Contour has, today, announced its partnership with CargoX, a blockchain platform for transferring documents and data including a certified electronic bill of lading solution.
The UK–Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) is the first deal that the UK has struck as an independent trading nation. A British-shaped deal that goes beyond the existing EU agreement, securing… read more →
