Trade Finance Global’s (TFG) Annie Kovacevic sat down with Finastra’s Anastasia Mcalpine (AM) and Contour’s Josh Kroeker (JK) to find out the importance to have fintech companies collaborating more frequently.

Change can come at any point and can be catalysed by any manner of things. Trade has proven no exception to the rule.

ESG may be front-of-mind, but how can the wider implications of sustainability help different areas of trade?
While the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) agenda is clearly front-of-mind at the moment and a crucial element of sustainability, the topic is more nuanced than it might first appear.

Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Rishikesh Tinaikar, global head of corporates and Trade Go to Market at SWIFT, to further explore the pandemic recovery and how lockdowns are accelerating trade finance’s push toward digitalisation.

Your Monday coffee briefing from TFG.

Emerging markets roundtable: understanding and addressing the trade finance challenges for SMEs.

This year’s ITFA 48th Annual Trade & Forfaiting conference, held in Porto, covered a few key themes, one of the most notable being the increasing trade finance gap, which impacts small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets the most.

TFG’s Annie Kovacevic sat down with Gordon Cessford, president of Atradius US and regional head of Atradius in North America to understand more about political risks, emerging markets, and digitalisation.

With a global energy and food crisis peaking, alongside hiking inflationary rates and geopolitical tensions, it may seem that the road ahead for the African continent is not as straightforward as one would hope.

Speaking to George Wilson, head of institutional trade finance at Investec, Trade Finance Global (TFG) was able to find out more about the African eco-system.

Finastra and Visa announced a Banking as a Service (BaaS) collaboration on September 22, 2022.  This partnership will co-develop new features for Finastra’s Payments Hub solutions. It will also implement… read more →

VERIDAPT, a digitised commodity monitoring management company, joined forces with Singapore Trade Data Exchange (SGTraDex) to provide banks, traders, and terminal operators with a new trade flow platform.   SGTraDex, a… read more →