Posts Tagged ‘resiliency’

At Commodity Trading Week (CTW) in London, where the commodity community was gathered for two days, Deepesh Patel, Editorial Director, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Ben Hillary, Managing Director at Commodities People.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) released its Regional Economic Prospects report for May 2024, offering a detailed analysis of economic developments across its regions.

EBRD grants a $25 million trade finance facility to Privatbank to support Ukraine’s trade operations amid global banking challenges.

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.

In recent years, various disruptions such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine have prompted a reassessment of global supply chains. These events are impacting companies and influencing… read more →

Over the weekend, S&P Global Ratings upgraded Greece’s sovereign credit rating to Positive. Simultaneously, S&P decided to keep Italy’s rating at Stable, showing a divergent path for the two economies.… read more →

The Basel regulations have been continuously refined and updated to address new risks and challenges in the global banking sector, with the overall aim of promoting financial stability and preventing future crises.

At the end of March, Lloyds Bank released its latest report exploring supply chain resiliency across the global market.  The report comes as internationally operating firms continue to face the… read more →

Trafigura Group Pte Ltd. (“Trafigura”), announced the closing of its new 365-day European multi-currency syndicated revolving credit facilities (the “365-day ERCF”) totalling $1.9 billion, as well as the extension and… read more →

Against the backdrop of wide-reaching global political and economic uncertainty, the credit and political risk insurance market (CPRI) has access to more capacity than ever before, with notional maximum capacity… read more →

To learn more about sustainability approaches within the industry, Trade Finance Global spoke to Eva Rubio, head of global transaction banking at BBVA at BAFT’s Europe Bank to Bank forum held in London this January.

UK exporters are the least optimistic in Europe due to a combination of uncertainty caused by Brexit, the conflict in Ukraine, and disrupted supply chains, according to Allianz Trade.  This… read more →

The full economic and business impact of the Covid-19 crisis is yet to be felt, with the preservation of cashflow and investment in new technologies to predict risk being issues… read more →

Eight in 10 chief financial officers fear their businesses are ill-prepared to handle a decrease in sales volumes as the full impact of Covid-19 begins to be felt on the… read more →