Listen to this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and Podbean. African markets are among the fastest-growing for receivables finance, but the solution remains virtually unknown in many parts of the continent. Yet as… read more →
Amid the sea of tech developments in the finance world, digital infrastructure is slowly but surely gaining ground. While it may not be as futuristic as agentic artificial intelligence (AI)… read more →
85 countries in the world have a sizable factoring industry, and more are developing one every day, keen to take advantage of factoring’s potential to bring liquidity to cash-strapped small… read more →
FCI, the global representative and network for the factoring industry, has entered a factoring data-sharing cooperation with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Trade Register. The announcement was made today,… read more →
Lex Greensill, a former financier who fell from grace in 2021 following a high-profile financial scandal, has been banned from directing a company in the UK for nine years. Ahead… read more →
Kaleidofin, a Mumbai- and Nairobi-based fintech, has closed the country’s first private sector local currency securitisation in smallholder agriculture. This novel funding mechanism should get capital to farmers who are… read more →
The global factoring industry surpassed €4 trillion in annual turnover in 2025, according to data published today, 5 May, by FCI, the Amsterdam-based body overseeing the global receivables finance network.… read more →
J.P. Morgan Payments has today gone live with a digital platform which centralises its trade and working capital solutions. The new Working Capital Accelerator system centralises services including dynamic discounting,… read more →
Global business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce is projected to exceed $57 trillion by 2030. Yet trade financing, built around bills of lading, warehouse receipts and 90-day usance terms, has been remarkably slow… read more →
I introduced the idea of a women’s-only edition to Trade Finance Global (TFG) this time last year. But for this year’s edition, the response has been overwhelming, and Issue 30… read more →
