Global demand for trade finance is expected to rise as companies diversify markets, deepen intra-regional trade, and ...

Hong Kong must harness digital innovation to revitalise its crucial trade finance sector, an economist said on ...

A widening trade finance gap is preventing ASEAN’s small and medium-sized enterprises from fully participating in regional and global markets. Traditional banks remain cautious, leaving many firms ...

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a $50 million Trade Finance Unfunded Risk Participation Agreement (RPA) facility between the African ...

Trade finance is on the rise. Despite ongoing geopolitical frictions and tariff uncertainty, banks worldwide are reporting rising volumes, stronger client demand and an appetite to expand ...

It’s easy to miss a structural shift when it happens in silence. No crash and no “end of the old guard” proclamations. Just the slow, methodical migration of the world’s largest financial institutions ...

Many African economies face persistent shortages of foreign exchange (FX), particularly U.S. dollars, which can impair their ability to fund imports, pay off debt and maintain stable macroeconomic ...

Discussions around the impact of technology often refer to what is known as Amara’s Law, which hypothesises that the impact of new technologies is overestimated in the short term while the long-term ...

This content has been created by the Finextra editorial team with inputs from subject matter experts at the funding sponsor. Amid geopolitical shifts and regulatory pressures, trade finance is ...

Global trade has evolved in every imaginable way except the one that matters most. Goods travel across continents in days, communication happens in seconds, yet the financing behind those transactions ...

LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The financial system risks undermining global trade if it fails to adapt to the economy's needs, with developing countries likely to suffer the most, the UN Trade and ...