Africa cannot meaningfully scale intra-continental trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) without closing the trade finance gap that disproportionately excludes women-owned SMEs.

US Customs to halt IEEPA tariff collection after Supreme Court ruling, Trump vows tougher levies — Trade Finance Global US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will stop collecting tariffs imposed ...

The impact of Lunar New Year on European supply chains The Lunar New Year routinely disrupts European supply chains as Asian factories slow production, exposing weaknesses in demand forecasting and ...

What is Receivables Discounting? Receivables discounting is a type of asset financing which involves obtaining a short term loan against accounts receivable. It is first important to understand what a ...

Swift is integrating a blockchain-based shared ledger to enable real-time, 24/7 cross-border payments. The system, developed with Consensys and over 30 global banks, will support tokenised asset ...

FCI has published their preliminary World Factoring Statistics for 2023, showing the industry experienced a rise of +3.3% in 2023.

UK Export Finance has secured an £11bn lending commitment from five major UK banks. The scheme enhances access to working capital for SMEs, including automatic guarantees for loans up to £10m, ...

ICC Incoterms 2020 are now live. DAT has changed to DPU, insurance points are clarified on C-terms, transport security is now well defined, own transport is accounted for, changes to FCA/FOB regarding ...

Kyriba, a liquidity performance company, unveiled new Artificial Intelligence (AI) functionalities within its platform, aimed at enhancing cash forecasting, bank connectivity-as-a-service, and bespoke ...

BAFT, the leading global financial services association for international transaction banking, has published a new white paper titled "ISO 20022 Migration: Lessons Learned".

The problem with connecting PowerBi Web to PostgreSQL hosted on AWS has arisen frequently over the past few years. The process itself is not very complex, and so I’ve put together a short piece on how ...

FCI, the global representative body for factoring and trade receivables finance, has entered into an agreement with fraud prevention technology provider MonetaGo to develop interoperable receivables ...