The ICC's key trends for 2019
The trade finance industry will undergo further transformation in 2019, explains Olivier Paul, head...
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Q3 2018 Trade Finance League tables
- Export and Agency
- Global
- Trade Finance
Trade Finance has published its league tables for the third quarter of 2018
Payables finance - three questions
- Supply Chain
- Global
- Joao Luiz A Galvao, Deutsche Bank’s Global Head of Supply Chain Finance
The supply chain finance ecosystem is vast and payables finance programmes are plentiful, but what...
Documenting to improve regulatory compliance
- Supply Chain
- Global
- Geoffrey Wynne
In a world of ever increasing regulation, parties can protect their position against a review by...
DFI lending in Rwanda
- Export and Agency
- Africa & Middle East
- Nikola Yankulov
Since President Paul Kagame launched his country's Vision 2020 development plan in 2000, substantial...
Scaling Solar in Africa
- Export and Agency
- Africa & Middle East
- Jordan Bintcliffe
Three years on from the launch of the International Finance Corporation's Scaling Solar scheme in...
Lebanon’s $22bn designs on PPP
- Export and Agency
- Africa & Middle East
- Jordan Bintcliffe
Lebanon has unveiled plans for a $22 billion Infrastructure Investment Programme (IIP) to be...
Çanakkale Bridge, Turkey
- Export and Agency
- Europe
- Beatrice Mavroleon
Turkey’s north western regions have seen a flurry of transport projects of late, with bridges –...
Interview: Lex Greensill
- Export and Agency
- Global
- Joe Kavanagh
Greensill Capital made its name in supply chain finance, offering receivables finance to small...
Old risks, new tricks
- Insurance
- Global
- Joe Kavanagh
There’s been a boom in political risk and trade credit insurance in recent years, with plenty of new...
Causing ripples
- Trade Flow
- Global
- Joe Kavanagh
SWIFT’s primacy in international payments looks solid for now, despite the entrance of an aggressive...
Kernel raises $200m PXF
- Commodity
- Europe
- Joe Kavanagh
Ukrainian agribusiness firm Kernel has agreed a $200 million pre-export credit facility with a...
Taped over?
- Export and Agency
- Global
Once heralded as the future of digital trade finance transactions, the Bank Payment Obligation (BPO)...
Imitation game
- Export and Agency
- Europe
- Joe Kavanagh
Trade Finance grabbed a few minutes with the CEO of SACE, Alessandro Decio, at the sidelines of GEF...
Friend or foe?
- Export and Agency
- Global
- Joe Kavanagh
Tech firms have become much more active in trade finance in the past two years. Banks are falling...
Roundtable: Mizuho
- Export and Agency
- Global
- Joe Kavanagh
Mizuho recently completed the restructuring of its trade finance department. Trade Finance caught up...
Beating the growing pains
- Supply Chain
- Americas
- Joe Kavanagh
John Stillwaggon, the new CEO of DS-Concept’s USA branch, is trying to take advantage of economies...
Trade finance in Iran, one year on
- Export and Agency
- Africa & Middle East
- Rene Lavanchy
Since sanctions against Iran were partially lifted, a plethora of MoU have been signed creating a...
Trump sees sense on Ex-Im
- Joe Kavanagh
After months of speculation about President Trump’s plans for the US Export-Import Bank, it seems...
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- Export and Agency
- Asia & Pacific
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- Export and Agency
- Africa & Middle East
- James Hebert
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