Speaking at FCI’s 58th Annual Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, Betül Kurtuluş, Deputy Secretary General of FCI, shared some trends she’s observed from the conference and the first half of this… read more →
On Thursday, 11 June, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) announced it has extended a $20 million trade finance line to Bank of Africa-Benin (BOA-BENIN), aiming to boost… read more →
FCI, the global representative and network for the factoring industry, has entered a factoring data-sharing cooperation with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Trade Register. The announcement was made today,… read more →
As the global energy transition heats up, one continent that we must watch carefully is Africa. The continent is known to hold significant natural resources, especially some of the most… read more →
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 →
A new chapter in American commercial law begins today, 3 June, with Article 12 of New York’s Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) set to reshape how negotiable instruments move. Leveraging technology… read more →
Geopolitical shocks are now feeding through to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) faster than ever before. As operating across global supply chains, customer bases, and supplier networks becomes the norm… read more →
Seven central banks and over 40 commercial banks have participated in a successful prototype of Project Agorá, an initiative to test the feasibility of a multi-currency shared programmable platform. A… read more →
The 2017 adoption of the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) has provided a legislative template for the use… read more →
On Wednesday, 27 May, British bank NatWest announced its partnership with specialist artificial intelligence (AI) provider Cleareye.ai. Through adopting Cleareye.ai’s AI-powered platform, ClearTrade, NatWest aims to automate data extraction and… read more →
