Last year was turbulent, not least for the global trade finance industry. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the economy, interrupted supply chains around the world and short-circuited business operations. Alongside COVID-19, trade tariff wars between the ...
We talk to Charmaine Quinland-Donovan, CEO of the world’s leading Citizenship by Investment Programme in Antigua and Barbuda about how the Unit she heads up continues to successfully respond and adapt to any and all ...
Many international trade transactions are completed using an escrow account. This method works to increase trust between two parties who are not familiar with each other. For example, the exporter may request the importer to ...
Traditionally, farming evokes images of hard labour and toiling in the sun. While that has not entirely changed, the people (or should we say “things”) doing the toiling and hard labour, are changing rapidly. We ...
There is a tech boom going on in Africa, like almost everywhere else. However, the growth of the space is incredibly rapid in the continent. Accordingly, in 2019 there were 618 active tech hubs, while ...
As the world begins to see light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel, thoughts are turning to what the post-pandemic economy will look like. Many organisations and even entire sectors will not come out ...
From their inception in the early 2010s, until their meteoric rise to fame in 2017 on the back of Bitcoin’s astronomical bull market, digital (crypto) currencies were relatively obscure. Despite this, the technology behind them, ...
Bitcoin investors should be braced for – but not put off by – “much greater government scrutiny,” warns the boss of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations. The warning from ...
Banking Circle, the financial infrastructure provider, today announces that it is now completely cloud-based, with all aspects of its infrastructure hosted within Microsoft Azure. This includes its purpose built, cloud-first, cross border payments platform, which ...
Family offices, high net worth individuals and wealthy families are increasingly considering private fund structures to hold their investments. While ‘standard’ investment structures like hedge or private equity funds can be ideal for some investors, ...
Trade finance involves cross border transactions, both financial and physical, along with diverse players, languages, jurisdictions and other variables. This makes it attractive to fraudsters and financial criminals. Therefore, it is the duty of every ...
Social media-led activist investors are playing a potentially costly game, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations. The warning from Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of ...
Bolero International, the leading cloud-based trade finance digitisation experts, announce today the launch of Galileo TPaaS for Banks, the industry’s first white-labelled trade portal-as-a-service solution for financial institutions. Leveraging the power of the Bolero network, the solution’s ...
SH Payments, the tier one banking services provider, today announces that it has chosen Nano as its core digital banking provider. The Nano core banking platform, which was developed by software company Baltic Amber Solutions (BAS), ...
Rishi Sunak’s Budget will encourage higher earners to consider their “international financial options” and will drive businesses away from the UK, warns the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech ...
UK Finance has today published detailed proposals for a new service company which will support the UK’s world-leading open banking infrastructure. Open Banking (OB) provides a secure way for financial information to be shared across ...
It’s a matter of history that China and India have had a fraught connection for many years. Politics tensions have naturally had economic repercussions; but, India has coped gratefulness to an extended self-direction history. That ...
International trade has tripled as a percentage of the global gross domestic product since 1945, and banks have done well from it. Revenues from trade finance currently total roughly sixty billion dollars a year. However, ...