To the untrained eye, trade finance can seem like an intimidating assortment of industry terms and acronyms that were designed to be confusing. Those in the industry know that confusion… read more →

The Berne Union released its latest Business Confidence Survey this week amid mounting geopolitical uncertainty. This latest rendition of the quarterly report shows that demand for export credit insurance is… read more →

With commodities like food and energy resources scarcening in the face of climate change and the Ukraine-Russia conflict, all eyes are turning towards Africa as a possible solution.

Middle Eastern states are to land a $1.3 trillion windfall from extra oil revenues over the next four years, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). On Friday, the IMF… read more →

The course of this last year has seen a fluctuation within fuel markets. Like many other countries, India has experienced similar trends.   India’s crude oil imports from Russia fell in… read more →

Conflict with Russia has created a multitude of substantial repercussions for economies around the world, not least an ongoing disruption within the global energy market.

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has created ripples throughout many channels of the trade finance industry, not least the agricultural sector.  In response, China has turned toward Brazil in a bid… read more →

TFG’s Annie Kovacevic sat down with World of Open Account (WOA) cofounders John Brehcist and Erik Timmermans. 

New research from Allianz Trade shows that reducing non-tariff barriers to trade could lower inflation by 4.5 percentage points (pp) in the EU and by 2pp in the US. Nearly… read more →

The financial belt is tightening around China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Many headlines in recent weeks highlight the mounting debt and declining activity that the “project of the century” is now facing.