Navigating the evolving landscape of supply chain finance in the wake of COVID-19 and geopolitical tensions. Explore key insights from industry experts at the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Global Trade Partners Meeting in Barcelona.

To learn more about the factoring market, including important growth regions, and Islamic finance, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Federico Avellán Borgmeyer, Chief Partner Officer at efcom, Abdelrahman Elbeltagy, Islamic Factoring specialist at efcom, and Vikram Nair, CEO of Xilligence

Learn about ITFA’s Fraud Working Group and their efforts to combat cross-border fraud in trade 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.

Trade Finance Global spoke with Çağatay Baydar, Chairman at FCI and Irina Tyan, Principal Banker, TFP at the EBRD about factoring and SCF.

Discover the ICC DSI’s initiative to facilitate digital trade with the release of their Key Trade Documents and Data Elements (KTDDE) report.

The EBRD TFP conference gathered industry leaders to discuss evolution of factoring and supply chain finance in emerging markets.

IFC and Absa provide $60 million commodity trade finance facility to Volcafe, benefiting East African coffee farmers.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Citi have entered into a master risk participation agreement to boost access to supply chain financing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), aiming to support over $100 million in additional annual trade across Asia and the Pacific.