Your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG.
Financial Cold War: Author and former HKEX exec James Fok on US-China tensions, trade war, dollar supremacy
Rabobank goes live with Surecomp’s end-to-end digital trade finance solution
Trailstone Group signs €175m multicurrency secured uncommitted revolving credit facility
VIDEO: COP26 – Assessing the repercussions for the commodities sector
World’s largest wealth fund warns ‘permanent’ inflation will hit returns
Only a handful of companies show they are ready for EU green rules
VIDEO: Factoring strikes back – FCI’s Aysen Çetintas on expanding trade finance education after COVID-19
Financial Cold War: Author and former HKEX exec James Fok on US-China tensions, trade war, dollar supremacy
In this Q&A, we speak to Fok about his new book, Financial Cold War: A View of Sino-US Relations from the Financial Markets. Read more →
Rabobank goes live with Surecomp’s end-to-end digital trade finance solution
Surecomp, a Canada-based trade finance solutions provider, has announced that its major software tie-up with Netherlands’ Rabobank is now live. Read more →
Trailstone Group signs €175m multicurrency secured uncommitted revolving credit facility
The facility will be used to finance Trailstone’s European renewable asset management business. Read more →
VIDEO: COP26 – Assessing the repercussions for the commodities sector
COP26 concluded with all 197 countries represented at the conference signing the Glasgow Climate Pact – but what will it mean for commodities? Read more →
World’s largest wealth fund warns ‘permanent’ inflation will hit returns
Consumer price inflation is running at its highest level for more than two decades in the world’s big industrial economies, in particular in the US. Read more →
Only a handful of companies show they are ready for EU green rules
Fewer than 10 out of almost 12,000 eligible companies demonstrated they were ready to comply with new green reporting rules that came into effect in Europe this year. Read more →
VIDEO: Factoring strikes back – FCI’s Aysen Çetintas on expanding trade finance education after COVID-19
In 2020 the global factoring industry saw a 6.5% drop in volume – its largest one-year decline on record. Read more →
