TFG Weekly Trade Briefing, 14th July 2025

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Speaking at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Annual Meeting in London on 13 May 2025, Çağatay Baydar, Chairman of FCI, was struck by the “vibrant energy” between the countries and companies under EBRD’s remit. Read more →

The focus remains on augmenting human expertise rather than replacing it, ensuring that the technology serves to enhance rather than eliminate the strategic value that experienced trade finance professionals provide. Read more →

With the world’s most advanced digital public infrastructure (DPI) and a thriving fintech ecosystem, India is already at the heart of reimagining working capital. Read more →

There is a precedent in Africa for turning weakness into strength. For instance, the African mobile payments landscape is extremely vibrant: in 2022, mobile money transactions in Africa hit $1 trillion. Legacy infrastructure on the continent was not a limiting factor, and they went straight to digital. Read more →

At the Money 20/20 Europe conference in Amsterdam this year, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Rosie McConnell, Product Director at IFX Payments, on the single biggest trend she had observed at this year’s conference. Read more →

The Minneapolis-based bank is the first American lender to execute a transaction using WaveBL, a blockchain platform that enables encrypted document transfers between trading partners and their financial institutions. Read more →

Focusing on this transformation, Trade Finance Global’s Mahika Ravi Shankar spoke to Erik De Belder, Director of North America and the UK at Vyntra. They discussed how the data-focused fintech company is helping banks gain real-time visibility over their transaction flows. Read more →

India’s digital payment infrastructure is making inroads into the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as the country’s leading fintech organisation advances plans to integrate its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) across the Gulf state’s retail and hospitality sectors. Read more →

TFG Weekly Trade Briefing, 7th July 2025

At the Money 20/20 Europe conference this year in Amsterdam, TFG spoke to Shane Riedel, founder and CEO of Elucidate, which provides regulatory, compliance, and risk assessment services to the financial industry. Read more →

The energy transition appears to have been a constant back and forth between opportunities and complex regulatory and ESG challenges, and nowhere is this more pertinent than in commodity finance. TFG spoke with Christine Dirringer, Global Head of Trade and Commodity Finance at Rabobank, about how the industry is evolving to meet these demands. Read more →

After more than two decades under the American Bankers Association (ABA) umbrella, the Bankers’ Association for Finance and Trade (BAFT) is charting a new course as an independent organisation. The separation, effective September 2025, will be in response to an increasingly fragmented global financial landscape. Read more →

On 23 June, the London High Court ruled that Singaporean commodities giant Trafigura could keep the £16 million it had been given in 2017 by Rasmala Trade Finance Fund, a Dubai-based fund. Read more →

In light of her recent promotion to Partner at Sullivan & Worcester UK LLP, Daniela Barrdear shared her thoughts with TFG about the role that development finance institutions (DFIs) play in emerging market development: harnessing her expertise and background on the subject. Read more →

Trade credit insurers are bracing for a more challenging environment amidst projected decelerating global economic growth, compounded by uncertain geopolitical trajectories, according to Aon’s Market Insight Report for H1 2025. Read more →

Announced on 30 June, Oracle has launched new cloud-based trade and supply chain finance (SCF) services designed to help banks accelerate lending to corporate clients and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Read more →

Traditional payment systems in Africa are proving costly and inefficient, particularly for cross-border transactions. Read more →

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