If you blinked and put your feet up this bank holiday weekend, you probably missed out on a few important milestones for digitalizing trade.

Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has announced the appointment of Angela Ellard of the United States, Anabel González of Costa Rica, Ambassador Jean-Marie Paugam of France and Ambassador Xiangchen Zhang of China… read more →

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG. UK and Indonesia strengthen trade ties launching the Joint Economic and Trade Committee. Global trade could grow 8% as COVID fightback begins and WTO details impact of regulatory barriers, other factors on costs to trade

Finastra has announced BANK OF AFRICA, a pan-African financial group, has selected Conpend’s TRADE AI app from its open innovation platform, FusionFabric.cloud. The app extends the functionality of Finastra’s Fusion… read more →

FCI Academy announces the opening of the certificate programmes and the specialized online courses to all industry stakeholders.

Surecomp®, the leading provider of global trade finance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced that automotive multinational TRATON SE has gone live with its trade finance processing solution COR-TF™… read more →

The UK and Indonesia have today (Monday 26) concluded the first round of exploratory trade talks and committed to further strengthening our £3 billion trade and investment links through a… read more →

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG.
FCI reports a drop in global factoring statistics in 2020, linked to a drop in trade volumes due to the pandemic.

Misr Technology Services (MTS), which operates Egypt’s National Single Window for Foreign Trade platform (Nafeza), has authorized CargoX to act as the blockchain document transfer gateway for the Advance Cargo Information (ACI) System.

HSBC India and HSBC UAE have successfully executed a blockchain-enabled, live trade finance transaction between Tata Steel Ltd. (India) and Universal Tube & Plastic Industries Ltd. (UAE). This is a… read more →