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The race is on to lead the world in electric vehicle (EV) production. Will China dominate, or will the EU and Japan forge ahead?

Freeports are a special kind of air, rail, or seaport, where normal tax and customs rules don’t apply, says John Lucy, director of Liverpool City Region Freeport

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG. UK-EU Brexit talks continue, with the UK prime minister Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen agreeing to extend talks on the future UK-EU relationship beyond the previously announced deadline of yesterday.

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG. The UK has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use. The first vaccinations are expected to start this week. Following a week of intense negotiations, UK and EU negotiators issued a statement saying that “conditions for an agreement are not met.

TFG heard from Robert Meters on the significant role of trade credit insurance in the current economic crisis the global trade is facing.

By eliminating unnecessary paperwork, Port Community Systems contribute to sustainable transport logistics and support the ambition of meeting global carbon reduction requirements.

In the expectation of a fast-growing demand for electric vehicles, global investors and battery makers have been in a rush to stock up nickel, which helps to substantially drive up… read more →

ADB’s Trade Finance Program (TFP) has announced that Can Sutken will join the team as Relationship Manager for Vietnam, Indonesia and the Pacific. Can has a wealth of experience in… read more →

Car lease specialists XL Group is raising a unique £3m P2P loan facility to bolster its short-term contract hire business. The finance has been structured by P2P lending platform Crowdstacker (crowdstacker.com)… read more →

Silicon Valley-based Trucker Path released a crowd-sourced navigation app for truck drivers in late 2013. The crowd-sourced Trucker Path application has grown to become America’s largest community of truck drivers… read more →

Regulatory uncertainty, high security risk, rising oil prices and unprecedented volatility is a nasty cocktail of conditions that in theory should suggest trouble ahead for the European aviation market. However,… read more →

We will take a look at the China and US trade relationship along with the vehicles market in the US below, and attempt to understand whether Donald Trump will ‘rip… read more →

Trade and export finance are sometimes used interchangeably. However, it is important to explain the distinction and how the terms are used.     Trade finance is a term universally… read more →

It’s not very often when we come across truly global solutions which simplify trade finance and supply chain process management. However, the technology lying behind Thomson Reuters® ONESOURCE™ Global Trade… 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 →