UK Export Finance (UKEF) has launched a new product to help support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through challenging market conditions. Attending the UK Trade & Export Finance Forum 2022,… read more →
The Law Commission of England and Wales has launched a research inquiry asking users and other experts for information about how decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) can be characterised. This is… read more →
On November 15 a group of major banks including Citigroup, HSBC, BNY Mellon, Wells Fargo and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York initiated a 12-week digital dollar pilot. The… read more →
On November 15, Energy Day at COP27, the World Bank Group announced the Hydrogen for Development Partnership (H4D), a new global initiative to boost the adoption of low-carbon hydrogen in… read more →
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched a just transition support platform on November 14. The initiative is part of ADB’s commitment to ensuring that the benefits of the shift to… read more →
Crypto.com has made a clerical error mistakenly sending 320,000 in Ethereum (c.$416 million) to another cryptocurrency exchange, called Gate.io, about three weeks ago. According to Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek, the… read more →
Your Monday coffee briefing from TFG – Commerzbank on standardisation: the key to sustainable trade finance
The AES Corporation’s US-based clean energy business announced on November 11 that it has entered into a $1.7 billion warehouse credit facility advancing the construction of 3 gigawatts (GW) of… read more →
Gunvor USA LLC, a subsidiary of Gunvor Group Ltd, has successfully closed the syndication of its $1.45 billion uncommitted borrowing base credit facility. The facility includes a $1.16 billion one-year… read more →
Tackling global warming cannot be successful without governments taking into account the important role of trade in meeting climate goals, according to Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. Speaking at a high-level event… read more →