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Accelerate Hub – Trade Treasury Payments
Congratulations on reaching the next stage of the Accelerate Competition. We are delighted to have you on board, and look forward to receiving your essay / literature review over the coming weeks as part of the competition.
Next stages
1. Read our guides
We’ve put together a guide for the structure of your essay / literature review. Read the guide, check out our post templates and example posts
2. Choose a topic
We’ll give you the flexibility of choosing your own topic and subject, but we will give you some ideas to get you started
3. Draft your post
We would ask you to confirm the topic and subject, and then leave you to send us your draft for review
4. Enter Accelerate
You’ll send your final essay / literature review to us for our panel to judge and decide who the winners of Accelerate are
Timelines
What’s in it for you?
Funding
Receive a £500 Scholarship Grant towards your academic studies
Reputation
Boost your professional reputation as a recipient of the Scholarship
Networking
The opportunity to work with experts in fintech and commercial finance
Development
Feedback and guidance from us, as well as the ability to learn about a growing industry
1. Read our guides
Once you have sent us your final drafts for the posts we will send you feedback before it’s submitted to the panel as part of your entry to Accelerate.
2. Choose your topic
We’ve listed the topics and geographies below, and suggested some possible headlines and subjects as starting points. Please use these to have a think about the kind of areas you would like to write about, and then let us know over email what is of interest to you.
Sectors
- Foreign Exchange / Currency
GBP strengthening (snap elections)
How currency movements affect businesses
- Finance
Business Funding: Debt finance versus equity finance
How to value a company
How does invoice finance work?
- Fintech and Alternative Finance
How companies are using alternative finance to grow
The rise of alternative finance
Fintech innovations / uses of fintech in alternative finance
- Metals and Mining
Silver, Lead and Tin Prices
How does metal trading work?
How to export metal
- Soft Commodities
House Prices and Most Expensive Cities to Live in
Property Prices and Construction Trends
- Agriculture and Crops
Soy Bean Prices
Cashew Nut Trading
Global Food Crisis
How do farmers access finance?
- Oil and Gas
Oil / LNG Macro economic trends
Airline Industry
How does oil trading work?
- Technology Trends
Unicorn Businesses and recent venture capital investment trends
Fintech and banking
PSDII and PSDIII – what do businesses need to prepare for?
- Electronics
Graphene and Battery Capacity
The new iPhone 8
- Aircraft and Aviation
- Chemical industry
- Pharmaceutical industry
How pharmaceutical companies get funding
Geographies
- China
China macroeconomic trends
The growth of fintech in China
- United States
Trump and Trade
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership and why does it matter?
North Korea and the US
North Korea missile testing
Twitter and Politics
- Germany
Trade and US relations with Germany
- Japan
- South Korea
- France
Frexit and French Elections
- Hong Kong
- Netherlands
- Turkey
Turkish Elections
- United Arab Emirates
Saudi Arabia and Oil Prices
OPEC and Commodity Prices – What next?
- The Middle East
Syria and Economics
- India
India and Fintech Investment
Make in India Campaign
Tourism and India
3. Draft your post
Sending your draft post to us
Send your draft posts to James.Sinclair@tradefinanceglobal.com for first review, and someone in the team will review and send over feedback. As mentioned before, we might ask you to make some changes. We will also check your work for plagiarism and duplicate content.
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