BAFT is the leading financial services association for international transaction banking. In his new role, Stevenson will lead BAFT’s trade-focused policy, practices, and education initiatives, and support its trade-related councils and committees.

For the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), the establishment of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation in August this year was yet another milestone in enhancing Singapore’s status as an international shipping hub. 

The supply chain crisis appears to be subsiding, according to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) most recent World Trade Report.

Over the last two weeks, the UK has been at the forefront of some of the biggest announcements to come out of COP26.

Trade Finance Global (TFG) has today launched the Sustainable Trade Finance Hub during COP26.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has published a new report setting out proposals to tackle the challenge of defining and setting common standards for sustainable trade and trade finance.

The cessation of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, will be one of the most important events affecting trade finance this year.

It’s around two weeks until the SWIFT Standards Release 2021, which is one of the items seemingly on everyone’s lips.

The Bank of England has surprised investors today by voting against a rise in its benchmark interest rate, which would have been its first since August 2018.

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