At ICC Austria’s Trade Finance Week in Vienna, Trade Finance Global sat down with Andrea Tang, Legal Services Director at the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Association (FIATA), to discuss a few of these developments.

As fraud cases increase, insurers often bear the financial burden despite fraud typically being excluded from coverage unless proven—a challenging task given the complexity of modern trade networks.

International trade is crucial for the economic health of almost every nation and is notably complex.

Arab Coordination Group collectively allocated approximately $17 billion to finance nearly 500 projects in over 90 countries.

UNCITRAL Working Group VI has been working on an international instrument that allows the use of negotiable cargo documents and negotiable electronic cargo records for all modes of transport in a multimodal or unimodal context.

To discuss the paper and better understand how DTSCF can promote financial stability, risk management, and sustainability, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Tod Burwell, President and CEO of BAFT.

At the IFC Global Trade Partners meeting in Barcelona, Spain, Trade Finance Global’s Editor, Deepesh Patel, sat down with Parvaiz Dalal, Global Head of Trade Payables at Citi, to discuss the bank’s recent collaboration with the IFC and its implications for supply chain finance.

For over two decades, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Trade Organization (WTO), and multilateral development banks (MDBs) have been partners in enhancing global trade finance. 

FCI has released their Annual Review for 2023, highlighting a return to pre-pandemic stability in the global factoring market. 

To learn more about risks and risk management, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Peter Milne and Alex Gray, Director of Trade and Transaction Banking at the London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF).