News
20 October 2011
An informal meeting hosted by World Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Pascal Lamy in response to the G20 countries asking him to review the effectiveness of trade finance (fundamental to the world...
News
11 October 2011
World trade volumes will grow by 73% by 2025 predicts HSBC Trade Connections, a new quarterly global forecast.
News
7 October 2011
Falcon Group, the corporate finance boutique, has appointed Juan Carlos Uribe as its regional director for the Americas. Before the appointment Uribe spent eight years at DF Deutsche Forfait as...
News
7 October 2011
BTA, Kazakhstan’s third largest bank by assets, has now repaid the second US$175m instalment of a trade finance loan agreed as part of its debt restructuring process, according to a statement from...
News
7 October 2011
The attraction of higher quality assets such as trade receivables to the securitisation market was illustrated by Finacity’s execution of a 4.2-year, US$181m facility for CEMEX, a global building...
Feature
7 October 2011
Marie-Christine Diaz provides an update on the progress how the Bank Payment Obligation is set to transform the financial supply chain dynamics
Swift scene
Opinion
7 October 2011
Unexpected events call for a sudden change of direction. Order can become chaos very quickly. Imagine, heading for Sibos, you were to encounter a moose on the loose on the Canadian highway…...
Face to face
7 October 2011
Lloyds Banking Group’s operations new back room boy Gunnar Collin talks about competing on operational efficiency and customer service in a challenging trade finance environment
Profile:...
Opinion
5 September 2011
Citibank’s JOHN AHEARN observes that changes in global trade are forcing financial institutions to reassess their trade finance business models
Advertising feature
The new normal
Opinion
2 September 2011
BNY Mellon’s MICHAEL BURKIE demonstrates why a collaborative ecosystem of information sharing makes for supply chain sustainability
Market View
Banking on cloud
Face to face
2 September 2011
Graeme Burton speaks to KAY CHYE TAN about his move from Standard Chartered in Singapore to Barclays in London and his work for the ICC Banking Commission
From East to West
Feature
2 September 2011
ANDRÉ CASTERMAN believes corporates need multi-banking solutions for both documentary trade and open account trade
Swift scene
In praise of BPO...
News
1 September 2011
The ICC’s fourth global survey, Rethinking Trade Finance 2011, based on responses from 210 banks in 94 countries, notes that the downward trend in trade traffic volumes experienced from 2008 to 2009...
News
31 August 2011
Bolero, the independent payments platform provider, has successfully concluded a live pilot project to perform fully electronic presentation of documents under a letter of credit
News
31 August 2011
Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets, part of the wholesale division at Lloyds Banking group has appointed Gunnar Collin as global head for trade within its group operations, global payments team
News
31 August 2011
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) and HSBC Bank Middle East have signed an MoU to implement Sharia-compliant trade financing and provide related treasury products
News
31 August 2011
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) and HSBC Bank Middle East have signed an MoU to implement Sharia-compliant trade financing and provide related treasury products
News
31 August 2011
Dominic Broom, who joined BNY Mellon in 2006, has been promoted to head of sales and relationship management, treasury services, for EMEA
