With commodities like food and energy resources scarcening in the face of climate change and the Ukraine-Russia conflict, all eyes are turning towards Africa as a possible solution.

Middle Eastern states are to land a $1.3 trillion windfall from extra oil revenues over the next four years, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). On Friday, the IMF… read more →

The course of this last year has seen a fluctuation within fuel markets. Like many other countries, India has experienced similar trends.   India’s crude oil imports from Russia fell in… read more →

Conflict with Russia has created a multitude of substantial repercussions for economies around the world, not least an ongoing disruption within the global energy market.

The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict has created ripples throughout many channels of the trade finance industry, not least the agricultural sector.  In response, China has turned toward Brazil in a bid… read more →

TFG’s Annie Kovacevic sat down with World of Open Account (WOA) cofounders John Brehcist and Erik Timmermans. 

New research from Allianz Trade shows that reducing non-tariff barriers to trade could lower inflation by 4.5 percentage points (pp) in the EU and by 2pp in the US. Nearly… read more →

The financial belt is tightening around China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Many headlines in recent weeks highlight the mounting debt and declining activity that the “project of the century” is now facing.

China’s trade surplus rose to a record high of $101.26 billion in July, the first time in history that the indicator has risen above the $100 billion mark.  A trade… read more →

The financial belt is tightening around China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).  Many headlines in recent weeks highlight the mounting debt and declining activity that the “project of the century”… read more →