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Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG:
- VIDEO | Combatting fraud in trade finance: the impact of digital solutions
- Resilience through cohesion: a collective approach to ESG solutions
- Digital assets and private law: UNIDROIT’s response to a changing landscape
- ICC United Kingdom launches new initiative to combat trade finance fraud
- Nokia announces new Sustainable Finance Framework
- SMBC to halt financing for coal mines by 2040
- EBRD’s TFP facilitates record high transactions in 2022
- ING and vc trade partner to digitise the syndicated loan market
VIDEO | Combatting fraud in trade finance: the impact of digital solutions
To learn more about trade digitisation, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Oswald Kuyler, global head of strategy at MonetaGo. Read more →
Video | Resilience through cohesion: a collective approach to ESG solutions
To learn more about sustainability approaches within the industry, Trade Finance Global spoke to Eva Rubio, head of global transaction banking at BBVA at BAFT’s Europe Bank to Bank forum held in London this January. Read more →
Digital assets and private law: UNIDROIT’s response to a changing landscape
The digital economy has seen tremendous growth over the past decade for several reasons. This has given rise to a large number of digital assets that are commonly used as part of transactions in digital environments and beyond. Read more →
ICC United Kingdom launches new initiative to combat trade finance fraud
The ICC United Kingdom has announced a new initiative to strengthen the UK finance industry against the impacts of duplicate financing fraud. Read more →
Nokia announces new Sustainable Finance Framework
Nokia announced its Sustainable Finance Framework that places sustainability as core to future stakeholder value and central to its business outcomes. Read more →
SMBC to halt financing for coal mines by 2040
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking (SMBC) will phase out corporate and project finance exposure to coal mining by 2040, but does not have a concrete timeline for reducing support to trade finance. Read more →
EBRD’s TFP facilitates record high transactions in 2022
The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) supported its highest ever number of transactions in a single year in 2022. Read more →
ING and vc trade partner to digitise the syndicated loan market
ING announced today that it has spun out Loan Optics to vc trade GmbH, the leading digital platform in the market for private placement and promissory note loans. Read more →