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Soft Commodities Trader
Due to increased sales, a soft commodity trader required a receivables purchase facility for one of their large customers - purchased from Africa and sold to the US.
Metals Trader
Purchasing commodities from Africa, the US, and Europe and selling to Europe, a metals trader required a receivables finance facility for a book of their receivables/customers.
Energy Trading Group
An energy group, selling mainly into Europe, desired a receivables purchase facility to discount names, where they had increased sales and concentration.
Clothing company
Rather than waiting 90 days until payment was made, the company wanted to pay suppliers on the day that the title to goods transferred to them, meaning it could expand its range of suppliers and receive supplier discounts.
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Accelerate Scholarship Portal – Trade Finance Global
Congratulations on reaching the next stage of the Accelerate Scholarship competition. We are delighted to have you on board, and look forward to receiving your essay / literature review over the coming weeks as part of the competition.
Next stages
1. Read our guides
We’ve put together a guide for the structure of your essay / literature review. Read the guide, check out our post templates and example posts
2. Choose a topic
We’ll give you the flexibility of choosing your own topic and subject, but we will give you some ideas to get you started
3. Draft your post
We would ask you to confirm the topic and subject
4. Enter Accelerate
You’ll send your final essay / literature review to us for our panel to judge and decide who the winners of Accelerate are
Timelines
Important deadlines
- Confirm the topic and subject you have chosen as soon as possible
- Submit your article by 1st April 2022
What’s in it for you?
Funding
Receive a $1,000 Scholarship Grant towards your academic studies
Reputation
Boost your professional reputation as a recipient of the Accelerate Scholarship
Networking
The opportunity to work with experts in international trade
Development
Guidance from TFG’s editorial team
1. Read our guides
Once you have sent us your final drafts for the posts we will send you feedback before it’s submitted to the panel as part of your entry to Accelerate.
2. Choose your topic
We’ve listed the topics and geographies below, and suggested some possible headlines and subjects as starting points.
Please use these to have a think about the kind of areas you would like to write about, and then let us know over email what is of interest to you.
Sectors
- International Trade
Analysis of free trade agreements and blocs
Up and coming trade agreements
Trade tariffs and trade barriers in certain markets
Customs declarations post-Brexit – what has changed?
A deep dive on certificates of origin
Phytosanitary measures in Australia and how this impacts trade
The changing role of the World Trade Organisation
World Customs Organisation – an overview
Trade deficits and trade surpluses – how trade works
The impact of COVID-19 on global supply chains
- Trade Finance
How trade finance can help facilitate trade growth post-COVID
Export Credit Agencies and their role in international trade
Public-Private Finance Partnerships
Different types of trade finance
Foreign exchange / currency movements – a deep dive into various currencies and pegs
The role of trade credit insurance and reinsurance in global trade
Shariah and Islamic finance explained
Legal reform of trade finance – the acceptance of digital documents in international trade
An explanation of the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Documents (MLETR) and the role of UNCITRAL in trade
Supply chain finance disclosure requirements and how this might change post the collapse of Greensill
- Shipping and Freight
The great freight crisis
Wider impacts of shipping and supply chain disruptions
Offshoring, reshoring and nearshoring – has the US-China trade war had long-lasting consequences on global supply chains?
Port closures as a result of COVID and how this has changed shipping
Innovations in shipping and supply chains
Building sustainable supply chains and recent innovations
A history of the container ship
- Business Finance
Debt versus equity finance for business finance
Deep dive on invoice finance (discounting and factoring)
Overview on different types of business finance and their effectiveness in supporting domestic and international finance
The rise of alternative finance
Fintech innovations / uses of fintech in alternative finance
An overview of stagflation and how it’s impacting economies – monetary and fiscal policy
- Technology
DeFi (decentralized finance) and its role in trade
Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and impact on monetary policy / trade
The role of blockchain in international trade
Emerging technologies and supply chain (e.g. machine learning, artificial intelligence, automation)
How technology can be used for the automation of manual trade processes such as document checking
Use cases for technology in implementing more sustainable supply chains
Has greenwashing gone too far and how can technology
- Commodities, Softs and Agriculture
An insight on the commodities supercycle
Oil / LNG Macro economic trends
Sustainability and LNG markets
Sustainability and ESG in commodity trade finance
Metals markets overview
Car markets – the new role of EU vs Britain post Brexit and car manufacturers
Agri / grain – Africa overview
The semiconductor (shortage) crisis
Global Food Crisis
How do farmers access finance?
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