Over three-quarters of merchandise exports by the least-developed countries (LDCs) are primary goods.
This places them at a disadvantage in international trade since manufactured goods have a higher value than primary goods.

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

Sustainability is a hot topic around the world, with almost all industries impacted by the need to operate in a greener and cleaner way.

Your morning coffee briefing from TFG – Gas from the past: political history haunts energy supply chains amid Russian sanctions

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

Here is a quick rundown of City Week 2022’s main themes covered throughout the first of this three-day conference. 

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG:
Bank of America will transition to recycled plastic for credit and debit cards beginning in 2023

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) committed $22.8 billion from its own resources in 2021 to help Asia and the Pacific tackle the immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and promote… read more →

Bank of America announced that it will transition all plastic credit and debit card products to be made from at least 80% recycled plastic starting in 2023.  The company is… read more →

CACEIS and Crédit Agricole CIB are supporting private equity firm Antin on the structuring of equity bridge financing for its first infrastructure fund. CACEIS acted as the fund’s depositary while… read more →