At the IFC Global Trade Partners meeting in Barcelona, Spain, Trade Finance Global’s Editor, Deepesh Patel, sat down with Parvaiz Dalal, Global Head of Trade Payables at Citi, to discuss the bank’s recent collaboration with the IFC and its implications for supply chain finance.

Though Taiwan has a relatively small population of 23.3 million people, it’s a thriving trading country and an important trading partner for many countries around the world, including the US, UK, EU, and China.

At the recent EBRD annual meeting in Yerevan, Armenia, Trade Finance Global’s Editor, Deepesh Patel, sat down with Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at EBRD, to discuss the economic outlook for the regions under EBRD’s scope. Despite various external pressures, the EBRD’s Regional Economic Prospects Report predicts a 3% growth for these economies in 2024.

At the 2024 33rd European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Annual Meeting and Business Forum in Yerevan, Armenia, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Hasmik Ghahramanyan, a board member of the Central Bank of Armenia, to discuss Armenia’s policies and actions to achieve the SDGs.

In the vibrant setting of FCI’s 55th annual meeting in Marrakesh, Deepesh Patel, editor at Trade Finance Global, engages in a revealing conversation with Richard Wulff, the executive director at ICISA, shedding light on the intricacies of credit risk insurance and the current challenges faced by the industry.

Reporting live from the EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme Trade Finance Forum in Vienna, we bring you an exclusive interview with Tsolmon Bat-Erdene, Manager of FI and TF in the International Banking Department at Khan Bank, Mongolia. 

In a recent interview at the EBRD’s Trade Facilitation Program conference in Vienna, Deepesh Patel, the editor at Trade Finance Global, welcomed Abla Hussein, the Sector Head for Non-Bank Financial Institutions at the Commercial International Bank of Egypt (CIB).

Reporting live from the EBRD Trade Facilitation Programme Trade Finance Forum in Vienna, TFG sat down with Francis Malige, Managing Director, Financial Institutions at EBRD.

Join TFG’s Deepesh Patel and Ravesh Lala, IBM’s Head of Business Development for Hybrid Cloud Solutions, at Sibos in Toronto as they clarify the complexity of generative AI and its diverse applications in the trade industry. Ravesh starts with one of the foremost challenges confronting banks in trade and supply chain finance—digitalisation. He underscores the critical importance of transitioning from conventional paper-based procedures to a fully digital supply chain to enhance operational efficiency.

We hear insights from Deepesh Patel, Editor at Trade Finance Global, and Ben Ellis, the SVP Global Head of Visa B2B Connect, reporting from Sibos in Toronto. They highlight the core themes of Sibos: transparency, speed, and security.