At the BAFT global annual meeting in May, TFG sat down with heads of trade to discuss the current state of trade in Asia. 

The UN’s World Food Programme has warned that the failure to open Black Sea ports is a declaration of war on global food insecurity and will lead to famine, destabilisation of nations, and mass migration by necessity.

UK exporters are the least optimistic in Europe due to a combination of uncertainty caused by Brexit, the conflict in Ukraine, and disrupted supply chains, according to Allianz Trade.  This… read more →

Over the last ten years, nature dependent exports accounted for 40% of annual world trade ($7.4 trillion) – 36% of which stemmed from non-democratic regimes, as defined by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index. 

TFG spoke to two leading trade credit risk management experts, Marian Berden and Robert Meters of Schumann on how technology has the potential to help business avoid some of the costs and stresses associated with current economic conditions.

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG: Up, up, and away – latest statistics prove record inflation over last 12 months 

Accordion to the ONS latest statistics release, the twelve-month trailing inflation rate in the UK rose to 9% in April – the highest level since the current ONS data set began in 1989. 

Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG: Key to digitalisation – reducing the trade finance gap without creating unfair biases

This week at the Berne Union spring meeting, 74 export credit agencies, multilateral institutions, private banks, and credit insurers met in Istanbul. In addition to discussing underwriting trends and strategic… read more →

Female-owned export companies are being unfairly excluded from receiving trade finance loans, and more needs to be done to remove gender bias from the decision-making process, according to experts at this year’s World Trade Symposium.