The latest IPCC report drives further urgency to ECAs’ plans to increase funding for green and sustainable deals and to rebalance portfolios with long-dated carbon-intensive assets

TFG interviewed Robert Meters (RM), Head of Marketing and Sales, Global Business & Financial Services at SCHUMANN to discuss how the trade credit insurance has changed as a result of the covid-19 pandemic.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a new £31 million clean growth loan from UK Export Finance to complete the construction of the headquarters of one of the UAE’s… read more →

Your morning coffee briefing from TFG. Exports of intermediate goods sustain gains in Q1 of 2021 after rebound from pandemic, job slow down could lead the Federal Reserve to continue with stimulus, inflation could spark new financial crisis, China says US tensions threaten fight against climate change and UK labour crisis could last up to two years, CBI warns.

Never have fragmented reactions, as seen to recent global crises, be that Covid-19, climate change or geopolitical power shifts, illustrated better the acute need to have sustainable strategies in place.

Trade Finance Global is delighted to announce its media partnership with Reuters Events for Commodities Trading 2021.

The World Economic Forum/Ipsos’s latest survey on globalisation has found that 1 in 2 is unsure about the benefits of globalisation. Globalization questioned by almost half of those surveyed, with… read more →

UK Export Finance’s (UKEF) backs first of its kind green transition loan. This loan will help Wood to enhance its clean growth exports and develop green jobs across the UK.… read more →

COVID-19 has provided us with an opportunity for a reset, and so has the ICC’s leadership at the Banking Commission. TFG’s editor, Deepesh Patel, sat down with Lynn Ng, the ICC’s new Banking Commission chair, to discuss the ICC’s new governance strategy moving forward, and some of the key priorities for the Banking Commission.

HSBC is the first bank to join Walmart’s initiative to improve access to working capital for diverse and minority suppliers in the US. The bank is set to provide additional… read more →