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Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG:

  • Buy or build? Accelerating digital transformation in trade finance
  • PODCAST | Factoring in the UAE: Developments and global implications
  • Unmasking trade finance fraud: The intricate web of balance sheets, fragmented information, and human biases
  • Renminbi’s resurgence – a move away from dollar d(en)omination
  • Factoring landscape in Georgia: What is next?
  • UNCTAD Trade Forum 2023: Building inclusive and resilient trading systems
  • EBRD and Italy provide support for Ukrainian energy security
  • BAFT reveals Future Leaders Program class of 2023

Buy or build? Accelerating digital transformation in trade finance

Deepesh Patel, editor at Trade Finance Global, spoke to Enno-Burghard Weitzel, SVP Strategy, Digitization & Business Development at Surecomp, in a webinar entitled “Taking trade finance digital – buy vs build.” Read more →

PODCAST | Factoring in the UAE: Developments and global implications

To break down the intricacies of factoring and to provide an overview of the UAE law, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke to Marek Dubovec, director at the International Law Institute and professor at the University of Arizona. Read more →

Unmasking trade finance fraud: The intricate web of balance sheets, fragmented information, and human biases

Lenders across the world are grappling with the trade finance asset class. In Singapore, a string of legal cases has left banks facing the prospect of staggering losses with the nature of the trade finance asset class, as secure and self-liquidating, facing an existential crisis. Read more →

Renminbi’s resurgence – a move away from dollar d(en)omination

The United States Dollar has been the de facto global currency for the better part of the past century. While rhetoric questioning its longevity in this role has been around for decades, the past year has seen more leaders of rapidly emerging economies beginning to question why it still needs to be this way. Read more →

Factoring landscape in Georgia: What is next?

Factoring is a relatively new product for the Georgian market, developing in 2007. The factoring market in Georgia began with the technical advisory support of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TPF). Read more →

UNCTAD Trade Forum 2023: Building inclusive and resilient trading systems

UNCTAD will host the third UN Trade Forum on 8 and 9 May 2023 to identify trade policies that can help countries grow their economies while tackling pressing global challenges. Read more →

EBRD and Italy provide support for Ukrainian energy security

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Italian government have partnered to support Ukraine in the midst of the Russian invasion. Read more →

BAFT reveals Future Leaders Program class of 2023

Today, BAFT, a leading global financial services association for global translation banking, announced the Future Leaders Program class of 2023. Now in its eighth year, the program recognises upcoming talent in the global transaction banking industry. Read more →