Aon has made three senior appointments – two external and one internal – to newly created roles within its credit solutions division.| Global Trade Review (GTR)
Analysis: China plus one destinations among riskiest for sourcing| Global Trade Review (GTR)
The World Bank has agreed to guarantee funding to Banco do Brasil, enabling the bank to offer up to US$700mn in trade finance to MSMEs. The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (Miga), an arm of the World Bank, will provide a 95% guarantee on a three-year loan provided to Banco do Brasil by BBVA and ...| Global Trade Review (GTR)
Ghana International Bank (GHIB) and the UK’s development finance institution have launched a US$50mn facility aimed at reducing the trade finance gap in several African markets. As part of a mutual risk participation agreement, GHIB and British International Investment (BII) will share risk on trade finance flows in Sierra Leone, Liberia, The Gambia, Benin, DRC, ...| Global Trade Review (GTR)
Unlike in many areas of financial services, trade finance does not have robust and widely available market data on pricing that can be useful for both banks and corporates. But is that about to change? In this Industry Perspective, Joshua Kroeker, chief product officer of trade finance platform Mitigram, explains how the company is collating ...| Global Trade Review (GTR)
Standard Chartered is the first bank to announce it will align its trade practices with the ICC’s Principles for Sustainable Trade Finance.| Global Trade Review (GTR)