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Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG:

  • Is the UK Electronic Trade Documents Bill the turning point for digital trade?
  • African Sustainable Trade Finance – the way forward
  • Embracing the digital revolution in commodities: How inventory management is transforming terminals, trading and banking
  • RELEASED: eUCP Version 2.1, aligning with MLETR
  • Addressing compliance costs as a barrier to Correspondent Banking and Trade Finance
  • Demand guarantees and URDG 758 rules – trends in Africa
  • Driving sustainability forward in the CEE region
  • Going up in smoke: Trade sanctions from Cuban cigars to Russian oil

Is the UK Electronic Trade Documents Bill the turning point for digital trade?

The potential impact of the UK’s incoming Electronic Trade Documents Bill goes far beyond a boost to the country’s trade prospects. Read more →

African Sustainable Trade Finance – the way forward

The trade finance industry has long strived for inclusivity. It recognises the importance of embracing an overarching vision that fundamentally reimagines its practices. To fully realise this vision, it is imperative to actively engage African voices in trade finance discussions. Read more →

Embracing the digital revolution in commodities: How inventory management is transforming terminals, trading and banking

Digitalisation is unlocking a multitude of real-time benefits for terminal operators, commodities traders and lenders, promising to make full transparency in inventory management and transaction flows the new normal. Read more →

RELEASED: eUCP Version 2.1, aligning with MLETR

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has unveiled eUCP Version 2.1, an alignment of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits for Electronic Presentation (eUCP) with the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR). Read more →

Addressing compliance costs as a barrier to Correspondent Banking and Trade Finance

In this article, EBRD’s Ralph De Haas and Rudolf Putz talks about ways to improve regulatory compliance for trade finance and correspondent banking. Read more →

At ICC Austria’s Trade Finance Week, Trade Finance Global spoke with Isaac Mahanke, group head for traditional trade products at Standard Bank, to shed light on the prevalence and advantages of demand guarantees in Africa. Read more →

Driving sustainability forward in the CEE region

Trade finance plays a vital role in global economic activities, facilitating the movement of goods and services across borders. Read more →

Going up in smoke: Trade sanctions from Cuban cigars to Russian oil

In 1977, as Mr Justice Kerr was coining his often-cited description of the letter of credit as the “lifeblood of international commerce”, the obstruction caused by the use of sanctions in international trade as a weapon of foreign policy would have been difficult to predict. Read more →