With Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia has embarked on the boldest model of economic and social reform anywhere in the world. TFG spoke to SABB about this transformation in raising the Kingdom’s non-oil trade from 16% to 50% of GDP.

Enterprises in EDEs face enormous financing challenges to respond to new export market opportunities and grow their businesses sustainably.

TFG heard from Beata Javorcik at University of Oxford, discussing corporates addressing climate change.

Recent trade developments with the US and China had accelerated a trend of companies in the South-East Asian region

TFG heard from Drum Risk on some of the challenges inspection companies face in emerging markets.

Since 2000, global trade flows have trebled to US$18.5 trillion. Yet many challenges to the adoption of trade finance products remain.

Africa is home to 1.3 billion people spread across 54 countries, 20 of which have economies set to expand by an average of 5% or higher over the next five years. We spoke to BACB’s CEO about export opportunities in Africa.

TFG heard from the EBRD around their ambitious Green Economy Transition (GET) approach, including the Green TFP which has supported more than 600 foreign trade transactions with a total value of more than €400 million since 2016.

The title of the EBRD’s transition report 2019-2020 – “Better Governance, Better Economies” – summarises its message well. Good governance matters. It matters at the level of countries, subnational regions and firms…

TFG’s Editor, Deepesh Patel, spoke to Yves Mersch about the strategical priorities of the ECB in 2020. They discussed the importance of central banks’ independence for the foreseeing of their mandates. The ECB’s mandate is to ensure price stability…