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1 month ago | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Gwen Mwaba |Mahika Ravi Shankar |Carter Hoffman
Commerce thrives when barriers are lifted, and opportunities are shared. Unfortunately, history shows that progress in trade has often excluded half the population from its full benefits. To learn more about gender issues in trade, treasury, and payments, Mahika Ravi Shankar of Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Gwen Mwaba, Afreximbank’s Managing Director of Trade Finance and Correspondent Banking, at TFG’s annual Women in Trade Treasury and Payments event in London.
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1 month ago | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Mahika Ravi Shankar |Carter Hoffman
Capital investment can be vital for driving economic development, but on its own, it is rarely enough. True development requires robust financial systems that serve all trade participants and minimise those trade finance gaps limiting opportunities for businesses in regions where liquidity remains a formidable challenge.
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2 months ago | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Carter Hoffman
This approach enables factoring companies to implement solutions faster and with fewer resources, allowing them to begin offering factoring services to their clients, such as SMEs and corporates, more efficiently. By providing pre-configured modules and features, ready-made factoring software simplifies implementation and streamlines key processes, such as handling receivables and invoices entered by entrepreneurs.
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2 months ago | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Carter Hoffman
Once known primarily for oil exports, the Kingdom is rewriting its future by embracing innovation and technology through Vision 2030, a strategy that has united policymakers, businesses, and citizens in building a globally recognised financial and technological hub.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Carter Hoffman
The uses of AI in credit insurance are multifaceted. Explainable AI is built to allow users to see the reasoning behind decisions, providing more clarity. AI is here to work alongside underwriters, rather than replace them. Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to become the modern underwriter’s ‘gadget’ toolkit in trade credit insurance. Imagine a future where underwriters receive AI-generated risk profiles that integrate real-time financial metrics, geopolitical events, and even market trends.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Carter Hoffman
The Asia-Pacific region (APAC) has remained a focal point for trade finance in 2024, with regulatory upheavals, geopolitical tensions, and significant shifts in business practices all impacting the sector throughout the year. Global trade volumes have been lower than expected, compounded by geopolitical friction and regulatory uncertainty. Basel IV, the evolving rules on bank capital requirements, has introduced ambiguity, casting a shadow over banking operations across the region.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Carter Hoffman
In light of Canada’s Prime Minister Trudeau resigning as his party’s leader in early January, and with Mexico’s President Sheinbaum only holding office since October, Donald Trump may be facing an entirely new set of neighbours upon taking office at the end of the Month. As he prepares for a potential second term, the big question is: what’s next for Mexico?
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Carter Hoffman
For many, the new year is a time to reflect on the twelve months that have gone by and make resolutions and visualise the year ahead. At TFG, we’re no different. At the beginning of this year, we looked ahead and made a series of predictions for what we thought would be the biggest trends in trade, treasury, and payments throughout 2024. As the year winds to a close we’re revisiting our predictions to see how well they measured up to reality.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Mahika Ravi Shankar |Silvia Andreoletti |Carter Hoffman
The good, the bad, and the ugly consequences of artificial intelligence (AI) have all reared their heads this year, and are demanding attentive analysis. The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has today published a report entitled ‘Trading with intelligence: How AI shapes and is shaped by international trade’. Comprehensive analysis can inform a truly meaningful set of AI regulations to be built in the future.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
tradefinanceglobal.com | Carter Hoffman
Life is different in CEE than it was two decades ago. Over this time, the economies in the region have been characterised by impressive growth, continuous convergence with Western Europe, and, more recently, inflation, stagnation, and geopolitical uncertainty. Understanding this journey requires exploring the critical drivers of economic development, the obstacles that have arisen, and how countries in this region are responding to an ever-changing global environment.
