PANGEA-RISK CEO Robert Besseling anticipates some positive risk trends in Africa in 2023.
Large national infrastructure projects have rarely been delivered at the pace of the UK Freeport programme; in March 2020, the government launched its consultation document, and in March 2021 it was announced that, subject to completing the necessary authorisation processes, the above eight locations would become Freeports.
Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG: Global trade finance – reasons to be hopeful in 2023
Dubai set out a 32 trillion dirham ($8.7 trillion) economic plan on Wednesday that includes doubling foreign trade and investment over the next decade to boost its standing as a… read more →
Iain MacLennan, VP of product management and trade at Finastra, and Patrik Zekkar, CEO of Enigio, Patrick DeVilbiss, head of product at CGI and Alisa DiCaprio, chief economist at R3, provided us with their predictions for the trade technology landscape in 2023.
TFG asked Francoise Huang, senior economist for Asia Pacific and Trade at Allianz Trade, John Miller, chief economic analyst at Trade Data Monitor, and Richard Wulff, executive director at ICISA, to give their thoughts on the 2023 trade environment.
Exploring new opportunities for financing energy projects in Africa, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) will host a New Year reception at the Waldorf Hilton in London, supporting European investment opportunities… read more →
Global growth is heading towards a recession, and global trade will continue to slow in 2023, according to trade credit insurer Allianz Trade. Meanwhile the UK will muddle through this… read more →
The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) has extended a $100 million trade finance facility to Agri Commodities and Finance FZE-LLC (ACF), a subsidiary of the Export… read more →
This article was originally published on December 19 2022 by Watson Farley & Williams LLP. TFG would like to thank Kimarie Cheang and Chengxi Tan for their contribution.
