This article is co-authored by Marcus Lankford and Mark Abrams. In December 2021, Bloomberg reported that several banks including BNP Paribas SA, Societe Generale SA, and ABN Amro have restricted financing commodity transactions following defaults linked to the pandemic and multiple frauds.

During the Queen’s Speech on 10 May 2022, Prince Charles, standing in for the Queen, announced that the Electronic Trade Documents Bill among the list of legislation that the Government intends to pursue in the upcoming parliamentary session.

The latest issue of TFG’s Trade Finance Talks, ‘Trade on a knife’s edge’, is out now!

TFG’s Deepesh Patel highlights the key themes in commodity trade finance for commodity trading week in London.

Robert Meters, director of Schumann International Limited, discusses the current and long-term impacts of the conflict on receivables finance and credit risk management.

In our latest podcast, TFG’s Deepesh Patel spoke to David Meynell to discuss the new rules for digital trade transactions.

Confidence, demand and energy shock waves, writes Ana Boata, Global Head of Economic Research at Allianz Trade. Allianz Trade is the new name for trade credit insurer Euler Hermes, which became part of the Allianz SE group in 2018.

Surecomp announces it is providing a new solution to mitigate the risk of duplicate financing fraud using advanced cryptographic technology. The new solution provides an effective invoice comparison process to… read more →

In our latest podcast, TFG’s Deepesh Patel spoke to ITFA’s Silja Calac & Jean-Maurice Elkouby of ING about taking on Europe’s credit risk insurance rules

Mr. Fausto Galmarini, Chairman of Assifact, the Italian Association for Factoring, has been elected as Chairman of the EU following a vote by the EUF’s Executive Committee which met on 4… read more →