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Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG:

  • Unlocking Africa’s Trade Potential: Credit insurance, export credit and funds: How do we solve the African trade finance gap?
  • Future of Trade: New opportunities in high growth corridors
  • VIDEO | Live from the top: Mongolia’s WEDF, a summary
  • Correspondent Banking: Managing Financial Crime risk through data analytics
  • Landlocked but open: Mongolia talks trade policy
  • Status update: MLETR adoption in the G7 and emerging markets
  • VIDEO | SWIFT thinking: what the MT760 changes mean for standby letters of credit
  • ITFA DNI Initiative Day: A crucible for the digital transformation of trade finance
  • The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 set to become law

Unlocking Africa’s Trade Potential: Credit insurance, export credit and funds: How do we solve the African trade finance gap?

Trade Finance Global (TFG), a leading trade finance platform, and Tinubu, a global credit risk and trade credit insurance provider, are pleased to announce the webinar exploring the potential solutions to the trade finance gap in Africa through credit insurance and export credit.  Read more →

Future of Trade: New opportunities in high growth corridors

Globalisation is not dead, contrary to recent claims. Nowhere is this more evident than in global trade, where high-growth trade corridors in Asia, Africa and the Middle East are set to outpace the global average by up to four percentage points. Read more →

VIDEO | Live from the top: Mongolia’s WEDF, a summary

At the forum, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Pamela Coke-Hamilton, the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), to explore the impact of crises, capacity building, and support for women-led businesses and youth in trade. Read more →

Correspondent Banking: Managing Financial Crime risk through data analytics

Correspondent banking is a cornerstone of international finance, offering a critical conduit for transnational transactions and financial services. Read more →

Landlocked but open: Mongolia talks trade policy

In an exclusive interview with Odbayar Erdenetsogt, the foreign policy advisor for the President of Mongolia, Trade Finance Global delves into the reasons behind Mongolia’s growing significance in the global trade landscape and the challenges and opportunities it faces. Read more →

Status update: MLETR adoption in the G7 and emerging markets

Trade Finance Global spoke with Luca Castellani, legal officer at the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). Read more →

VIDEO | SWIFT thinking: what the MT760 changes mean for standby letters of credit

Trade Finance Global spoke with Ledia Dervishaj, assistant manager of trade finance operations, standby letters of credits and global wholesale operations at Scotiabank Global Banking and Markets. Read more →

ITFA DNI Initiative Day: A crucible for the digital transformation of trade finance

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) Digital Negotiable Instruments (DNI) Initiative Day, hosted in London on 12 July 2023, served as an important platform for the future of trade finance. Read more →

The Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 set to become law

Volante Technologies, a company specialising in cloud payments modernisation, has expanded its existing collaboration with KPMG LLP. Read more →