At the International Trade Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) 2024 Christmas party, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Sean Edwards, Chairman of ITFA, and Dhiresh Dave, Chief Legal Officer and Managing Director – Legal, Compliance and Governance at Falcon Group, to discuss a financing tool that might come in handy for Saint Nicholas: inventory finance.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of any national economy, a characteristic that is pertinent in Uzbekistan. Not only do SMEs account for almost 50% of the national GDP, but they also employ almost 80% of the workforce—the biggest source of employment in a nation where unemployment is high, at around 7%.
As part of our C-Suite Leadership Series, Deepesh Patel, Editorial Director at Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Angela Duca, Global Specialty Head, Credit Specialties at Marsh, to help answer pressing questions about the trade and credit landscape.
This article will explore digitisation vs digitalisation, explaining the differences between these two concepts and providing examples of their applications and implications in especially trade finance industry. What is trade… read more →
Listen to this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Podtail, ListenNotes, TuneIn At the 2024 Trade Finance Investor Day (TFDI) conference in London, TFG’s editor Deepesh Patel spoke with Nick Stainthorpe, Partner at Reed Smith, on… read more →
The conversation surrounding real-time payment systems is evolving quickly, and nowhere is this more evident than in the dynamic between RTP (Real-Time Payments) and FedNow, two significant players within American… read more →
It’s been an interesting year. The ups and downs of the supply chain, the relentless pressures of stubborn inflation and widespread conflicts across Europe and the Middle East have reshaped… read more →
At the 2024 Trade Finance Investor Day conference in London, Deepesh Patel, Editorial Director at Trade Finance Global (TFG), sat down with Richard Wulff, Executive Director of the International Credit… read more →
Listen to this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Podbean, Podtail, ListenNotes, TuneIn The Mesopotamians were factoring in 1700 BC. But they didn’t have to contend with changing regulation, increased cybercrime, and geopolitical challenges – all which… read more →
Traditional paper-based systems are not helping us meet the challenges of the present or future. Trade digitalisation is not an end in itself. It is an enabler, a stepping stone… read more →
