Today, Morocco is hosting a conference on the digitalisation of foreign trade at the Casablanca Hotel, supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), ICC Morocco, ICC Digital Standards Initiative and the T3i Partner Network

Trade finance is at a critical juncture. With an ever-growing $2.5 trillion trade finance gap and over 4 billion pieces of paper circulating in the global trade ecosystem, the industry is ripe for digital transformation. 

Learn how Allianz Trade and BPL are using API integration to streamline the sharing of insurance enquiry data in the non-payment insurance sector.

On June 5, 2024, the French National Assembly adopted the uniform law initiative, the Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR). 

Learn how major players in commodity trading navigate risk and manage their trading activities with CTRM and ETRM systems.

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.

At the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Global Trade Partners Meeting, this room full of female international trade experts discussed the challenges that women entrepreneurs face in the global trade market and strategies for changing the status quo. 

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