SWIFT and Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) today signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) to accelerate trade digitalisation globally.
Enables financial institutions to provide fast and frictionless cross-borderpayments for small- and medium-sized businesses and consumers Over 20 financial institutions involved in its development Brussels 1 October 2020 – SWIFT… read more →
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 30 September 2020 – The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) is donating US$500,000 to support the COVID-19 response across Africa by the Africa Centres… read more →
UK beef to be served on US plates for first time in over 20 years, with first exports commencing from a Northern Irish facility. The first shipments of UK beef… read more →
Wednesday 30th September: ING is pleased to announce that it has acted as sole structuring advisor and joint bookrunner for AIB Group plc, as the Irish bank launches its first green… read more →
Cairo, 29 September 2020: – African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), the pan-African multilateral EXIM bank, announces $100 million financing to enable its Member States to procure COVID-19 related medical resources through the… read more →
The Association for Corporate Treasurers (ACT), in partnership with Deutsche Bank, has today announced the release of “The Group Treasurer: An ACT guide to the first 100 days”, which provides… read more →
A panel of leading economists and trade experts will help DIT develop cutting-edge trade models to reflect the modern economy and impact of Covid The Department for International Trade (DIT)… read more →
Longer-term factors, such as environmental change and public attitudes towards resource exploitation are also playing a role The challenges of digitalisation and the Covid-19 pandemic have introduced unprecedented external pressures… read more →
Global merchandise trade volumes declined by 14.3% in the second quarter of 2020 compared to the previous period as COVID-19 containment measures affected economies around the world according to data… read more →