At a glance, the trade dynamics of Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico, the so-called CAM-3, present a story of modest but consistent economic ascent. Mexico has strengthened its status as a… read more →

RAKBANK, a UAE-based bank, has entered into a strategic partnership with Cleareye.ai, a US-based fintech. The collaboration aims to automate elements of the bank’s trade finance operations and support its core system modernisation efforts.

In an effort to reduce Africa’s reliance on imported refined fuel from outside the continent, the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has launched a $3 billion revolving trade finance programme to support intra-African and Caribbean oil transactions.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has launched an Expert Panel on Project Cargox  to strengthen Hong Kong’s digital trade finance ecosystem, leveraging cargo data through the Commercial Data Interchange… read more →

After years of simmering trade tensions, the United States-China trade policy entered a new and tumultuous phase in 2025. 

For centuries trust has been the backbone of trade. From the interpersonal to the communal to the national and now to the international, the expansion of trust methodologies has enabled… read more →

The upgraded ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Area (AANZFTA), which as ratified in Feburary, entered into force on Monday.  The agreement, which is between ASEAN Member States (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia,… read more →

The framework that once held global trade together no longer fits the reality it’s supposed to support. The assumptions that underpinned multilateralism have thinned. Policy shifts once considered unthinkable now… read more →

Is it possible to engage in the commodity trade finance market without getting your backside bitten off by the sharp-toothed beasts that lurk therein? John MacNamara examines the case for… read more →