Asia-Pacific continues to strengthen its position in trade finance, supported by a solid manufacturing base and rising adoption of digital trade systems. Singapore’s push for electronic trade ...

International trade has increasingly become a key force behind global GDP growth. With steady increases in transaction size as well as payment periods, a lot of this trade has become reliant on trade ...

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 ...

Trade finance reduces payment and delivery risks in international transactions. Letters of credit are key tools in trade finance, ensuring payment upon delivery. Effective trade finance is vital for ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. The 2025 FIS Supply Chain Finance (formerly Demica) Benchmark Report ...

Digitization is revolutionizing age-old processes at trade finance banks. A group of representatives from Santander Bank, which won several awards, including Best Trade Finance Provider for Latin ...

While banks have accelerated digital solutions across business lines, accomplishing end-to-end digitalization of global trade remains far beyond their reach. The complexity of supply-chain finance ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the adoption of blockchain and DLT-based business solutions in the global trade ecosystem. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to push more people out of their ...

Huma's payment-finance platform aims to address the liquidity needs of trade financing using blockchain technology for faster settlement. Stablecorp CEO Alex McDougall shares a preview of I.D.E.A.S.

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 ...

The Voltron initiative, a trade finance platform built on R3's Corda blockchain, is set to begin operating in 2019. That's according to Bain & Company, which is working with eight banks and other ...

Advice, customized solutions and security differentiate the winners in Global Finance’s 20th annual competition. Bartlomiej Bartosiewicz (L) and Marta Mroz-Sipiora (R) of Asseco accept the award for ...