Indonesia and China have signed a new suite of bilateral cooperation agreements, headlined by a move to expand local currency use in trade and investment flows. The arrangement, formalised in… read more →

Wilmington-based fintech firm Blooms has raised $2.6 million in seed funding to scale its AI-enabled trade finance infrastructure. The round was led by SP Ventures, with participation from Angel Ventures,… read more →

Standard Chartered, a bank, and British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, have announced a $100 million trade finance facility aimed at addressing capital constraints facing businesses in… read more →

Conversations about the trade finance gap often feel abstract. Another panel. Another graph in a report.  After years of diagnosing the problem, a new initiative is finally shifting the focus… read more →

Leaders from the export credit agencies (ECAs) of the G7 countries convened in London this week for a two-day summit hosted by UK Export Finance (UKEF).

In an interview with Trade Treasury Payments (TTP), Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne Union, discussed how ECAs must adapt strategically to this new environment. Key priorities include supporting climate and clean-tech projects even in high-risk markets, shoring up supply chain resilience amid geopolitical fragmentation, deepening collaboration with development finance institutions (DFIs) through blended finance, innovating in underwriting and risk management post-pandemic, and recalibrating risk appetite to enable critical projects. 

The Digital Container Shipping Association (DCSA) has completed the first successful standards-based, interoperable electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) transaction, a milestone in the long-running effort to digitise global trade documentation.… read more →

Fraud, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence have long been treated as separate domains within financial services. Each came with its own tools, teams, and terminology, but the walls between them have… read more →

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has expanded its partnership with Quds Bank through the introduction of a revolving credit facility under the Bank’s Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP).… read more →