20 July 2012
After three months of fast and furious voting between March and May 2012, the TFR Excellence Awards were collated,...
20 July 2012
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA is not to be confused with the financial body, BAFT-IFSA)...
20 July 2012
It was Joseph Schumpeter, the Czech economist who first used the term ‘creative destruction’ to describe...
20 July 2012
During the financial crisis corporates learned the hard way that a fragile supply chain could bring their production...
20 July 2012
Structured trade and commodity finance (STCF) can encompass a wide variety of transactions, but the brunt of the...
20 July 2012
Now in its third year, TFR’s award for Best Trade Bank in the World remains one of the most sought-after...
20 July 2012
As bank lending shrank and the economic climate deteriorated over the course of 2011 the lawyers were kept busy...
20 July 2012
The political risk insurance (PRI) market now writes around US$1.5bn of premiums each year and has proved its...
20 July 2012
The last 12 months have been characterised by a great deal
of uncertainty.
Even if trade levels fall in the short...
20 July 2012
When it comes to mainstream all-round trade finance technology, interoperability in a multi-bank environment is now a...
20 July 2012
An effective online trade portal simplifies trade finance processes, lowers costs, enables clients to optimise...
19 July 2012
While modern transaction banking is a technology game, technology is not the only solution in an ever-evolving trade...
19 July 2012
With a funding gap between trade finance demand and available liquidity estimated at around US$250bn, specialist...
19 July 2012
Factoring has had a good financial crisis and volumes have rocketed by 90% over the last five years to US$500bn. As...
19 July 2012
While industry sources estimate that only around 2% of world trade is financed through forfaiting, this is set to...
19 July 2012
Although 2011 was a tough year for export credit insurers, Berne Union members insured around US$1.8trn worth...
19 July 2012
In a year that has seen funding gaps opening up all around the world, multilateral development banks rose
to the...
19 July 2012
Local bank expertise in a vast emerging market growth engine such as China has become particularly important as the...
