The Hive platform was launched recently to deliver automated invoice finance and new liquidity to SMEs through blockchain technology. We spoke to CEO Jure Soklic at the Hive Project about… read more →

Even though traders, business people, and governments desire it and major financial actors try to maintain it, stability on the Foreign Exchange market is only fleeting. The Volatile Markets Forex… read more →

Silicon Valley-based Trucker Path released a crowd-sourced navigation app for truck drivers in late 2013. The crowd-sourced Trucker Path application has grown to become America’s largest community of truck drivers… read more →

The Australian business lending landscape is changing dramatically. Interest rates are at historic lows but there are signs that these might go up in the near future, companies are extending… read more →

In accordance to the MSCI Frontier Market Index, Vietnam is recognised as a frontier market.  Nevertheless, with a GDP per capita of just above $6000 as of 2015 and a… read more →

Ninety seven per cent of exporters questioned in a survey said they were optimistic about growing their businesses through international trade. We spoke to Institute of Export & International Trade… read more →

Introduction On January 24, the central bank of China raised the 1-year MLF interest rate by 10BP to 3.1%, 6 months MLF interest rate increase by 10BP to 2.95%, leading… read more →

For decades, the shipping industry has helped many countries improve their economic situation, allowing many businesses to acquire their much-needed resources and develop products demanded by the market. And it… read more →

Within the course of just over half a year, cocoa prices have experienced the extremities at both ends of the scale.  July 2016 saw the price of the commodity soar… read more →

At Trade Finance Global we get asked a lot of questions around Letters of Credit, so we’ve put together a quick cheat sheet on LCs, payment times and the presentation… read more →