Four key pressures shape global trade today: geopolitical fragmentation, unpredictable tariffs, supply-chain realignment, and tighter regulations. Businesses suffer not from a lack of demand but from a shortage of timely,… read more →
By 2035, European states will spend $316 billion annually on defence equipment, marking an over 500% increase from 2014 levels, according to projections by the International Trade and Forfeiting Association… read more →
South-East Asia is a critical region for the global economy. With a GDP of $6.36 trillion, Indonesia alone is the world’s sixth-largest economy, surpassing Brazil, France, and the UK. As… read more →
On Tuesday, 24 March, Visa released its findings from its 2025-2026 Growth Corporates Working Capital Index (WCI). The findings track the financial behaviour of mid-sized businesses across Asia Pacific (APAC),… read more →
Mastercard will be collaborating with Bank of Shanghai to enable faster cross-border payments between China and global markets, seeking to capitalise on demand from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The… read more →
Structural pressures on global trade continue to intensify in 2026. Tariff uncertainty, geopolitical tensions, cybersecurity threats, liquidity shifts, and rapid digitalisation are reshaping the trade finance landscape. Against this backdrop,… read more →
The last five years have seen a global pandemic, tariff wars, a Suez Canal blockage, a Panama Canal drought, attacks on commercial shipping vessels, and, more recently, geopolitics taking an… read more →
The statistics on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) participation in global trade are well-known and sobering. SMEs frequently account for the majority of businesses, yet their share of exports remains… read more →
LONDON, 25 FEBRUARY 2026 – Cynergy Business Finance (CBF), the longest-standing financial partner of Trade Finance Global (TFG), has doubled its finance facility to Trade Finance Partners (TFP). Trade Finance… read more →
Regional integration has been a major focus in Africa’s developmental agenda. Over the past decade in particular, there has been a significant effort to build the frameworks needed to move… read more →
