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 →

TFG’s Deepesh Patel sat down with Lynette Thorstensen, board chair at Fairtrade International, to discuss the digital divide, ESG in global trade, and how technology is helping to shape the global (fair) trade landscape. 

David Meyell, Digital Rules Advisor to the ICC Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation (C4DTI) provides a comprehensive introduction to the ICC Uniform Rules for Digital Trade Transactions (URDTT).

A circular economy is an alternative to the traditional linear economy where goods are simply made, used, and then disposed of.

In 2020, ICC partnered with the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Singapore to launch Digital Standards Initiative (DSI). This initiative aimed to establish a globally harmonised, digitalised trade environment,… read more →