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.
At the 2024 33rd European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Annual Meeting and Business Forum in Yerevan, Armenia, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Hasmik Ghahramanyan, a board member of the Central Bank of Armenia, to discuss Armenia’s policies and actions to achieve the SDGs.
The selection of women leaders to any global organisation is still rare enough to make headlines when it happens. Jane Fraser at Citi, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala at the World Trade Organization and Doreen Bogdan-Martin at the International Telecommunication Union are a few recent examples.
International trade is the lifeblood of the global economy serving as a vital catalyst for economic growth, innovation, and prosperity across nations, including in the MENA region.
Trade Finance Global spoke with Çağatay Baydar, Chairman at FCI and Irina Tyan, Principal Banker, TFP at the EBRD about factoring and SCF.
The European Union announced on Thursday that it has given final approval to implement the remaining batch of Basel III rules in Jan 2025.
The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, has released a whitepaper, “Banking on Women Who Trade Across Borders”, exploring the gender disparity in international trade.
IFC’s whitepaper “Banking on Women Who Trade Across Borders”, speaks to the gender disparity that still exists in the international trade space, particularly in emerging markets.
HSBC has introduced its new e-commerce digital payment platform, Omni Collect, in the UAE in collaboration with Saudi-based FinTech company, Geidea.
Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, announced it has been selected by LGT to implement instant payment services in Austria and Liechtenstein, with plans to expand to other markets.
