The UK’s development finance institution and impact investor, CDC Group, has announced the close of a $30 trade finance loan to City Bank, one of Bangladesh’s top-performing private banks. Trade… read more →
Swiss Export Risk Insurance SERV gives EPC contractors access to attractive ECA-covered financing through its ECA pathfinding approach. This also enables Swiss exporters to benefit from such infrastructure projects.
Reporting Export Incidents, whether on a voluntary or involuntary basis, as well as investigating non-compliance in relation to trade finance operations, is of huge importance to multinationals, banks and policy makers. With that in mind, Spencer Chilvers, Head of Export Control Policy, Rolls-Royce to discuss export controls, the current sanctions environment, and the future, on Trade Finance Talks!
Export Finance Norway, the result of a merger between former government agencies GIEK and Export Credit Norway, officially opened its doors fully on the 1st July 2021. The merger of… read more →
Multilateral agreement between Deutsche Bank and Investec in partnership with Swedish Export Credit Agency (EKN), Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK) and Export Credit Insurance Corporation of South Africa (ECIC) announced… read more →
Singapore and the UK begin negotiations this week, aiming to help exporters enter new digital markets and ease the barriers to cross-border digital trade, worth £3.2 billion annually. The trade… read more →
Your morning coffee briefing from TFG. Global foreign direct investment is set to partially recover after plummeting in 2021. Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF)’s Annual Report highlights resilience of poorest countries despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
UK Export Finance publishes its annual results for 2020-21, which show the government provided record levels of support for UK exports. UKEF provided £12.3 billion in financial support for UK… read more →
Joining CPTPP would hitch Britain to some of the world’s biggest current and future economies, populated by half a billion people and with a joint GDP of £9 trillion in… read more →
Eleonore Treu, Hugo Verschoren and Donald Smith, breakdown Letters of Credit and some of the prominent issues surrounding this instrument. Is there a need for a new “Lite” LC product? How to mitigate the complexity and discrepancies inherent to Letters of Credit?