13 Jul 2021
Whether environmental, social or economic, the sustainability challenges at the heart of trade often seem insurmountable in this global, sprawling industry. Recent research suggests 92% of CEOs believe the integration of sustainability will be important to the future success of businesses – but only 48% say they are actually implementing sustaina...
17 May 2021
Trade finance is a critical component of global trade, enabling banks to provide risk mitigation and working capital facilitation. Any transaction brings with it a degree of risk, and trade finance is no different – but the $18 trillion market is simply too profitable to abandon. So what are banks looking out for when it comes to trade fraud and, ...
31 Mar 2021
Ever Given, the massive container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for seven days, captured the attention of news media around the world as estimates claimed it was holding up $9bn each day in global trade, straining supply chains already burdened by the pandemic. The Suez Canal separates the continent of Africa from the Middle East and Asia and i...
11 Feb 2021
The global trade and trade finance industries are nearing an inflection point where we will either embrace digital platforms en masse, or will return to discussions about a future held back by endless challenges, as pockets of digitisation progress. For the most part, the technical challenge of digitisation has been solved through progressive appro...