LONDON, September 17, 2020 – The global economy will lose up to $10 trillion in GDP in 2025 unless governments repeal or reduce tariffs and non-tariff barriers that currently obstruct… read more →
Enabling seamless transactions from one account to another anywhere in the world with end-to-end transparency and predictability Made available through a next-generation digital platform that maintains SWIFT’s hallmark focus on… read more →
A preliminary report on the business activity of Berne Union Members in the first half of 2020 indicates that the expected spike in claims due to the COVID- 19 pandemic… read more →
The new initiative aims to harmonise African standards for pharmaceuticals and medical devices thereby enhancing intra-African trade, reducing substandard counterfeit products, and building resilient regional health systems. (Jeddah, Cairo, Nairobi,… read more →
The Covid-19 pandemic has shunted aside existing challenges to sit atop treasurers’ priority lists, according to “The resilient treasury: Optimising strategy in the face of covid-19”, a survey run by… read more →
The UK has today secured a free trade agreement with Japan, which is the UK’s first major trade deal as an independent trading nation. The UK has secured a free… read more →
WASHINGTON — BAFT, an international financial services association, recently announced the publication of BAFT’s Global Trade Industry Council Payables Finance Principles to inform the industry on the payables finance supply chain finance product.… read more →
The UK has today taken a major step in the process of joining CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership). The UK has taken a major step in the… read more →
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 9th September 2020. The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC), member of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group, signed a US$100 million Murabaha-structured line of trade finance with Mizuho Bank in… read more →
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, September 8, 2020: JSC Uzbekhydroenergo (“Uzbekhydroenergo/the Company”), Uzbekistan’s state hydropower producer and developer, announces it has signed a 25-year loan agreement, worth $60 million, with the Asian Development Bank (“ADB”).… read more →
