The specifics of African sovereign debt are incredibly nuanced and require a deep dive into country-specific situations and multilateral relationships. To get a better understanding of this subject, Trade Finance Global’s (TFG) Deepesh Patel sat down with Robert Besseling, CEO of Pangea-Risk at ExCred International in London.
On Tuesday 21 March, Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Trade, Investments and Industry, Moses Kuria, met UK Minister for International Trade Nigel Huddleston in London at the first-ever UK-Kenya Economic Partnership… read more →
TradeMark Africa (TMA), Tony Blair Institute (TBI), and Trade Catalyst, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), to closely collaborate in trade facilitation and trade finance in order to grow… read more →
Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG, 27 February 2023
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) will support a new targeted financing initiative, investment in businesses across Africa that were… read more →
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a dual-currency Trade Finance Line of Credit for ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) comprising $50 million… read more →
The latest issue of TFG’s Trade Finance Talks, ‘Sailing into 2023: Navigating the new year’, is out now!
‘Permacrisis’ was crowned word of the year by the editors of the Collins English Dictionary at the end of 2022, defined as “an extended period of instability and insecurity”. It seems an appropriate term to describe the state of global trade, finance, and supply chains as we enter 2023.
Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG: Shifting the mindset towards innovation in ports
The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) should be expedited as the free trade zone will boost intra-African trade and accelerate industrialisation, the Economic Commission for Africa… read more →
