• Never stand still! Taking treasury to the next level in 2025
• National barriers put a strain on Incoterms® 2020 rules, ICC finds
• TFG media partners for Tinubu Conference Day 2025
• VIDEO | Volatility is to be managed: Keeping your balance in APAC
• ICISA 2024 trade insurance update: Supporting 15% of world trade in 2023
• UK explores digital currency framework
• VIDEO | Central Asian trade finance by decree
• Actual physical sale and shipment of goods: The touchstone of trade credit insurance claims
• 2025 payments trends: AI, ISO20022, and more
• Brazil’s technological odyssey to empower SMEs

Never stand still! Taking treasury to the next level in 2025

What might 2025 look like for corporate treasurers? Which are the hottest opportunities to embrace, and the biggest risks to avoid? Read more →

National barriers put a strain on Incoterms® 2020 rules, ICC finds

Dozens of nations have erected barriers to these widely used terms, particularly around insurance and customs clearance requirements. The restrictions are forcing companies to rethink how they structure international sales contracts. Read more →

TFG media partners for Tinubu Conference Day 2025

Trade Finance Global (TFG) announces its media partnership with Tinubu for the inaugural Tinubu Conference Day, celebrating 25 years of industry innovation. Read more →

VIDEO | Volatility is to be managed: Keeping your balance in APAC

Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Hoang Anh Le Nguyen, APAC Geographic Lead – Trade Finance & Working Capital Solutions at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial insurance arm of the Swiss Re Group. Read more →

ICISA 2024 trade insurance update: Supporting 15% of world trade in 2023

With a total value of premium in the global trade credit insurance sector in 2023 reaching over €15 billion, the sector plays a critical role supporting trade around the world. Read more →

UK explores digital currency framework

On 14 January, the Bank of England and HM Treasury published an outline for a central bank digital currency (CBDC) blueprint, bringing the UK closer to a ‘digital pound’. Read more →

VIDEO | Central Asian trade finance by decree

The Central Asian market has been stable for some time, but this year has demonstrated its readiness for trade finance solutions, from infrastructure and investment to legislative enablement. Read more →

Actual physical sale and shipment of goods: The touchstone of trade credit insurance claims

Ultimately the risk of fictitious or paper trades remains prevalent and financiers should not assume or regard trade credit insurance as responding to fictitious trades. Read more →

2025 payments trends: AI, ISO20022, and more

2025 will build on 2024’s developments in AI to integrate it into nearly every aspect of payments, increasing security, efficiency, and personalisation. Read more →

Brazil’s technological odyssey to empower SMEs

At the intersection of technology and international trade, the country is dismantling long-standing barriers that have historically prevented smaller businesses from accessing global markets. Read more →

How domestic unrest is watering down Georgia’s role in the global economy

Despite Pangea-Risk attributing an elevated risk to the country in general, particularly with regard to political instability, risk is decreasing in the Georgian economy in many other aspects.  Read more →

The tide is turning on digital trade finance: Ride the wave or be swept out to sea?

2024 saw substantial progress, with several key developments accelerating the widespread adoption of trade finance software. Read more →

LatAm payments company dLocal adds FCA authorisation

The Uruguay-based cross-border payments specialist, which facilitates transactions between merchants and customers across emerging markets, will conduct UK operations through its subsidiary dLocal Opco UK. Read more →

Shipping law: The one-year time bar and trade finance

In the recent case of The Giant Ace, a trade finance bank was prevented from exercising a claim for mis-delivery against the carrier of the cargo. Read more →

Can Mexico weather a second wave of Trump’s trade policies?

As Trump prepares for a potential second term, the big question is: what’s next for Mexico? Could a new wave of tariffs or stricter rules under the USMCA push Mexico to the brink again, or has it learned enough from the past to weather whatever might come? Read more →

SEPA instant payments introduced in Croatia

The Croatian Banking Association (HUB) has announced that SEPA instant payments will be introduced to Croatia’s payments system. The scheme allows for the instant transfer of funds in euros within the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA).  Read more →

Indonesia rejects Apple’s $1bn investment offer to lift iPhone 16 ban

Indonesia’s Ministry of Industry has dismissed Apple’s proposed $1 billion investment in local manufacturing as insufficient to overturn its ban on iPhone 16 sales. Read more →

• TFG commits to highest editorial standards through IPSO regulation
• VIDEO | Approaches to the MLETR
• How Malaysia’s digital procurement system empowers SMEs and factoring companies
• Unlocking Latin America’s e-commerce potential: A blueprint for success
• PODCAST | Tariffs, trade wars, and transformation: The next four years of Trump
• South Korea unveils record W360tr trade financing package
• VOXPOP | Dhiresh Dave on inventory finance
• Trade Finance Global’s 2024 Year in Review

TFG commits to highest editorial standards through IPSO regulation

Trade Finance Global (TFG) announced its decision to join the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), the UK’s leading press regulator, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to delivering credible and accountable journalism to our readers. Read more →

VIDEO | Approaches to the MLETR

While a framework is a crucial step away from a solution, developments in electronic Bills of Lading (eBLs) is an example of the MLETR’s utility in practice. Read more →

How Malaysia’s digital procurement system empowers SMEs and factoring companies

Since 1999, the Malaysian government has introduced several initiatives to modernise its procurement processes and enhance economic inclusivity. Among these is the e-Perolehan system, which translates to the e-Procurement system, also known as “eP”. Read more →

Unlocking Latin America’s e-commerce potential: A blueprint for success

Latin America is alive with the energy of a digital transformation, offering unrivalled growth opportunities for international businesses. Read more →

PODCAST | Tariffs, trade wars, and transformation: The next four years of Trump

If Trump’s campaign rhetoric is to be believed, then his return to the White House will bring with it a renewed commitment to protectionism, an upheaval of trade norms, and significant implications for economies worldwide.  Read more →

South Korea unveils record W360tr trade financing package

South Korea has announced its largest-ever trade financing package of 360 trillion won (£245 billion) to support exports in response to an anticipated slowdown in its vital semiconductor sector. Read more →

VOXPOP | Dhiresh Dave on inventory finance

Deepesh Patel, Editorial Director at Trade Finance Global, spoke to Dhiresh Dave, Chief Legal Officer & Managing Director—Legal, Compliance & Governance, at Falcon Group to discuss the benefits and use cases of inventory finance. Read more →

Trade Finance Global’s 2024 Year in Review

TFG have been proud and excited to stand in the middle of a whirlwind of roundtables, interviews, conferences, and community participation.  Read more →

• PODCAST | Securitising trade finance: Unlocking hidden potential
• VIDEO | Race against real-time: The evolving landscape of US payment systems
• Top geopolitical trends and risks 2024: Trump presidency implications for Africa
• Roadmap for digital trade: ICC UK outlines strategic priorities for the future of trade
• HSBC and IFC launch $1bn trade finance facility for emerging markets
• VOXPOP | Angela Duca on credit specialties

PODCAST | Securitising trade finance: Unlocking hidden potential

At the 2024 Trade Finance Investor Day (TFDI) conference in London, TFG’s editor Deepesh Patel spoke with Nick Stainthorpe, Partner at Reed Smith, on ways to unlock capital investment into the trade finance and receivables world. Read more →

VIDEO | Race against real-time: The evolving landscape of US payment systems

The conversation surrounding real-time payment systems is evolving quickly, and nowhere is this more evident than in the dynamic between RTP (Real-Time Payments) and FedNow, two significant players within American payments.  Read more →

Top geopolitical trends and risks 2024: Trump presidency implications for Africa

The economic nationalism that incoming US President Donald Trump promises will have a varied impact across the African continent. Undoubtedly, 2025 will see new approaches to trade dynamics, development financing, and security partnerships. Read more →

Roadmap for digital trade: ICC UK outlines strategic priorities for the future of trade

At their event, ‘Re-imagining the future of trade,’ ICC UK unveiled their roadmap to digitalise UK trade. The document provides a framework for businesses and the government, from where to start to allocating responsibilities. Read more →

HSBC and IFC launch $1bn trade finance facility for emerging markets

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and HSBC have announced a $1 billion risk-sharing facility designed to boost trade financing for banks in emerging markets across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Read more →

VOXPOP | Angela Duca on credit specialties

The credit specialties space, at the “nexus of trade, investment, and finance,” has great potential for social transformation. Read more →

• November | Tracking digital trade in Peru and beyond
• Structured credit: Closing in on the trade finance gap
• C-suite speaks | ICISA’s Richard Wulff provides four reasons to digitalise trade
• TFG media partner of FCI, IFC, and the Central Bank of Uzbekistan’s receivables and payables finance
• US financial institutions explore regulated settlement network with shared ledger technology 
• PODCAST | Factoring and receivables: What’s in store for 2025?
• UK invoice financing startup Stenn put into administration after HSBC application
• ABN AMRO to wind down asset-based financing in UK and Germany
• South Africa faces mixed global economic outlook, PwC reports

November | Tracking digital trade in Peru and beyond

Check back at the end of every month to hear from Pamela Mar, Managing Director, ICC Digital Standards Initiative (ICC DSI) and get the latest insights into digital trade! Read more →

Structured credit: Closing in on the trade finance gap

At the Trade Finance Investor Day, André Casterman, CEO of the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFDI), sat down with TFG to discuss the role of securitisation in building resilience within the trade finance ecosystem. Read more →

C-suite speaks | ICISA’s Richard Wulff provides four reasons to digitalise trade

At the 2024 Trade Finance Investor Day conference in London, TFG spoke with Richard Wulff, Executive Director of the International Credit Insurance and Surety Association (ICISA) and TFG Editorial Board Member. Read more →

TFG media partner of FCI, IFC, and the Central Bank of Uzbekistan’s receivables and payables finance

In Central Asia’s most populous city, industry leaders tackled the fundamentals of factoring and supply chain finance. Read more →

US financial institutions explore regulated settlement network with shared ledger technology 

The Regulated Settlement Network (RSN) Proof-of-Concept (PoC) aims to how tokenised securities and central bank and commercial deposits could utilise shared ledger technology to enhance settlement processes within a financial market infrastructure. Read more →

PODCAST | Factoring and receivables: What’s in store for 2025?

TFG spoke to Federico Avellán Borgmeyer, Chief Partner Officer at efcom, at the FCI Conference in Prague to learn more about this year’s developments and what’s in store for 2025. Read more →

UK invoice financing startup Stenn put into administration after HSBC application

Following an order from the London High Court of Justice, three managing directors from Interpath Advisory, a consulting and restructuring firm, will take over as administrators of Stenn and Stenn Assets UK, its funding vehicle. Read more →

ABN AMRO to wind down asset-based financing in UK and Germany

On 26 November ABN AMRO, one of the largest Dutch banks, announced its plans to wind down the international operations of its asset-based financing division by the end of 2026. Instead, it will focus its efforts in Northwestern Europe and its finance and advisory services. Read more →

South Africa faces mixed global economic outlook, PwC reports

According to the Bureau for Economic Research, targeted reforms in energy, logistics, and crime could potentially boost South Africa’s real GDP growth to 3.3% in 2025, potentially creating 470,000 jobs and reducing unemployment to 31.4%. Read more →