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VIDEO | Citi on navigating volatility and incorporating ESG finance principles into trade finance
The African payments landscape: COVID-19, interoperability, SMEs
PODCAST | Part 1: Increasing access to financing and empowering women-owned or women-led MSMEs
PODCAST | Part 2: Enablers that empower and support women-owned or women-led MSMEs
VIDEO | Enhancing Tunisian trade during uncertain times
Enigio now offering FIATA members trace:original solution for eBLs
US and UAE agree to invest $100bn into clean energy
DCSA on why the industry must act to accelerate eBL adoption
VIDEO | Citi on navigating volatility and incorporating ESG finance principles into trade finance
Citi has been working collaboratively with its institutional clients to incorporate more sustainability-based principles into their everyday operations. Read more →
The African payments landscape: COVID-19, interoperability, SMEs
Trade Finance Global’s (TFG) Annie Kovacevic spoke with Mpho Sadiki, head of realtime payments at BankservAfrica, to learn more about what’s in store for the continent. Read more →
PODCAST | Part 1: Increasing access to financing and empowering women-owned or women-led MSMEs
Anabel González, WTO deputy director-general, hosted a roundtable discussion at the WTO Public Forum in September 2022 discussing technology’s role in bridging the financing gap that women-owned MSMEs face. Read more →
PODCAST | Part 2: Enablers that empower and support women-owned or women-led MSMEs
To learn more about how the WTO is championing women-led MSMEs, Trade Finance Global (TFG) moderated a panel discussion at the WTO Public Forum in September 2022 with leaders in the field. Read more →
VIDEO | Enhancing Tunisian trade during uncertain times
TFG spoke to a Tunisian banker at EBRD 2022 about the state of play in Tunisia and why the Russia-Ukraine conflict has so severely impacted the country economically. Read more →
Enigio now offering FIATA members trace:original solution for eBLs
Enigio AB signed an agreement on 31 October, 2022, with the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) to add its trace:original to the solutions supporting the electronic bill of lading standard (eBL). Read more →
US and UAE agree to invest $100bn into clean energy
In a strategic partnership between the UAE and the US, the two countries have signed the PACE and agreed to invest $100 billion in the production of 100 gigawatts of clean energy worldwide by 2035. Read more →
DCSA on why the industry must act to accelerate eBL adoption
At Sibos 2022, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Niels Nuyens, program director at Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA), to learn more about digitalisation in the shipping space. Read more →
