As we sail through the choppy waters of global trade in 2024, we find ourselves in a world transformed by both financial and geopolitical shifts.
The World Bank has granted nearly $300 million to the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) to enhance distributed renewable energy (DRE) and clean cooking ventures within… read more →
Learn about the debt crisis that African governments are facing & the need to renegotiate debts in order to avoid defaulting.
The Red Sea crisis hasn’t just impacted manufacturers; the delays will be hitting consumers too. For Britons, it might mean tea disruptions.
In 2023, Mexico overtook China as the United States’ largest goods exporter, based on recent trade figures. The Bureau of Economic Analysis, an agency of the US government, reported that… read more →
Europe’s first carbon tariff: EU’s CBAM requirements & deadlines apply to global supply chains & manufacturers. Learn how to prepare.
UNCTAD expresses deep concerns over increasing disruptions to global trade & Jan Hoffmann evaluates the circumstances in a briefing.
In this episode of Trade Finance Talks, TFG’s Deepesh Patel, spoke with Dominic Broom, Senior Vice President of Working Capital Technology at Arqit, exploring the imperative of striking a balance between the advantages of digital transformation and safeguarding critical data.
British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, together with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a regional development bank for Asia and the Pacific, announced their collaboration to finance up to $100 million in green trade transactions across the region.
What is the outlook for commodity trading in 2024? Marsh’s Aaron Bailey and Christopher Coppock provide their views.
Due to long mining periods and overblown expectations, industries in the midstream lithium supply chain shoulder the most pressure and are the most fragile in the supply chain.
Over the past years, international trade has been challenged by various factors. According to the 2023 Digital and Sustainable Trade Facilitation Global Report, while global merchandise trade volumes in 2021 displayed a strong recovery from the contraction suffered in 2020 due to COVID-19, trade growth slowed down in 2022.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has today unveiled a green and sustainability-linked loan (SLL) of €300 million to Iberdrola.
Following on from our first predictions article, the incremental gains for credit insurance, trade and supply chain finance, TFG surveyed 9 more industry experts looking at what we might expect for technology for trade, treasury and payments in 2024.