Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke to president and CEO of BAFT at Sibos 2022 about the role that banking organisations can play in developing environment, social, governance (ESG) and sustainability best practices within global trade.

The world of trade is changing. Increasingly, the topic of environmental responsibility is taking centre stage, with discourse specifically circling around how the finance industry can implement sustainability measures more effectively. 

Citi has been working collaboratively with its institutional clients to incorporate more sustainability-based principles into their everyday operations; a movement taking place as the world increasingly moves towards a more sustainable, low-carbon economy.

At Sibos 2022, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Niels Nuyens, program director at Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), to learn more about digitalisation in the shipping space.

To learn more about the changing nature of global supply chains, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Standard Chartered Bank’s Kai Fehr, global head of trade and working capital, and Samuel Mathew, global head of flow and financial institution trade, at Sibos, held in Amsterdam this October.

At Sibos 2022 held in Amsterdam, Trade Finance Global (TFG) discussed the potential complexities and obstacles for the Italian banking sector with CBI Chief Commercial Officer, Pilar Fragalà, and how CBI manages these by helping banks to overcome them.

The responsibility for sustainability falls on everyone, everywhere. It should unite us. We all need to work together, but how do we achieve such a big collective goal?
Following the Sibos session on ‘Accelerate Sustainability in Trade’, speaker Achraf Abourida, head of trade at ING Bank, discussed trade’s role in sustainability and its global importance in an exclusive interview with Trade Finance Global (TFG).

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Electronic bills of lading have been around since 1999 and yet are rarely used. The experts at sibos weigh in on some of the challenges facing their adoption and offer advice for overcoming them.

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