Your Monday coffee briefing from TFG:
Black diamond rises: Demand for coal heading to new all-time high despite net zero targets
Surecomp adds legal entity identification capability to all its cloud-based solutions by partnering with GLEIF
Central Bank of Egypt orders banks to quit documentary collections and replace with letters of credit
Payments prison break: Russian banks turn to China’s UnionPay in lieu of Visa, Mastercard, AmEx
Cameroon secures £113m UKEF trade backing for major roadworks
Oil rallies, gas surges, nickel explodes: How sanctions and Russian aggression are terrorising commodities markets
Share your #BreakTheBias recipe, as Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle dishes up hers on International Women’s Day 2022
PODCAST: ‘Open by default’ – Finastra’s Iain MacLennan on fintech partnerships, digitalisation, and helping SMEs triumph in an uncertain macro world
Black diamond rises: Demand for coal heading to new all-time high despite net zero targets
Global demand for coal is set to reach a record high in the next two years. Read more →
Surecomp adds legal entity identification capability to all its cloud-based solutions by partnering with GLEIF
Surecomp has launched a new due diligence partnership with the Swiss-based Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Read more →
Central Bank of Egypt orders banks to quit documentary collections and replace with letters of credit
From this month, the Central Bank of Egypt has announced that Egyptian banks will no longer accept documentary collections to finance imports. Read more →
Payments prison break: Russian banks turn to China’s UnionPay in lieu of Visa, Mastercard, AmEx
With Visa and Mastercard leaving Russia due to its aggression in Ukraine, Russia has turned to China’s UnionPay as a payments lifeline. Read more →
Cameroon secures £113m UKEF trade backing for major roadworks
The UK has signed a new trade finance deal with Cameroon that will help support the building of major roadworks in the African country. Read more →
Oil rallies, gas surges, nickel explodes: How sanctions and Russian aggression are terrorising commodities markets
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked a massive increase in prices throughout the commodities markets. Read more →
Share your #BreakTheBias recipe, as Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle dishes up hers on International Women’s Day 2022
On International Women’s Day, this year we rallied to #BreakTheBias, with Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle. Read more →
PODCAST: ‘Open by default’ – Finastra’s Iain MacLennan on fintech partnerships, digitalisation, and helping SMEs triumph in an uncertain macro world
TFG’s Deepesh Patel spoke with Finastra’s Iain MacLennan on fintech partnerships, digitalisation, and helping SMEs emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more →
