Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG: Up, up, and away – latest statistics prove record inflation over last 12 months 

FCI, the global representative body for factoring and financing of open account domestic and international trade receivables, has released their latest world factoring statistics.  This 2021 report indicates that the… read more →

Accordion to the ONS latest statistics release, the twelve-month trailing inflation rate in the UK rose to 9% in April – the highest level since the current ONS data set began in 1989. 

Surecomp® today announced the launch of its new collaborative trade finance platform RIVO™, bringing together an ecosystem of corporates, financial institutions, and fintechs.  The cloud-based solution is a digital hub… read more →

TFG interviewed Steven Beck, head of trade and supply chain finance at Asian Development Bank (ADB), to discuss how the trade and supply chain finance landscape has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Trade Finance Global have partnered with Google (Market Finder) to launch a comprehensive trade finance series of guides.

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG: Key to digitalisation – reducing the trade finance gap without creating unfair biases

This week at the Berne Union spring meeting, 74 export credit agencies, multilateral institutions, private banks, and credit insurers met in Istanbul. In addition to discussing underwriting trends and strategic… read more →

Female-owned export companies are being unfairly excluded from receiving trade finance loans, and more needs to be done to remove gender bias from the decision-making process, according to experts at this year’s World Trade Symposium.

This article is co-authored by Marcus Lankford and Mark Abrams. In December 2021, Bloomberg reported that several banks including BNP Paribas SA, Societe Generale SA, and ABN Amro have restricted financing commodity transactions following defaults linked to the pandemic and multiple frauds.