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.

Surecomp® has announced the completion of successful electronic bills of lading (eBL) transactions, bringing together multiple parties via its collaborative trade finance platform, RIVO™

HSBC has introduced its new e-commerce digital payment platform, Omni Collect, in the UAE in collaboration with Saudi-based FinTech company, Geidea.

NetXD has announced the expansion of its payments collaboration with Visa B2B Connect to onboard banks in Asia, following the successful onboarding of several banks across eight countries in Europe and the Americas.

As we celebrate International Women’s Day and the numerous achievements of women in trade finance all year, beyond 8 March, we must also look forward to the future.

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