Deepesh Patel

The ‘Exploring Receivables and Payable Finance’ conference, jointly hosted by FCI, IFC – International Finance Corporation, and the Central Bank of Uzbekistan, took place in Tashkent on Thursday 5 December.

TFG hosts a livestream featuring experts in trade, trade finance and geopolitics, assessing the implications of Trump’s second presidential victory.

HSBC has launched a cross-border e-commerce virtual accounts solution for banks, to simplify the process for merchant businesses to receive EUR and GBP payments via their local bank accounts. 

As we celebrate International Women’s Day and the numerous achievements of women in trade finance all year, beyond 8 March, we must also look forward to the future.

In a quickfire session at the 50th Annual Trade and Forfaiting Conference held at ITFA Abu Dhabi, TFG’s Deepesh Patel spoke with Sean Edwards, Chairman of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA), about some of the key themes emerging throughout the conference.

When British singer-songwriter Charli XCX released her sixth studio album, “BRAT,” in June 2024, she could not possibly have expected its cultural impact.

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has released its second policy statement on the implementation of Basel 3.1, set to take effect in January 2025.

In April 2024, the International Chamber of Commerce’s Digital Standards Initiative (ICC DSI) launched the Key Trade Documents and Data Element (KTDDE) Framework, an industry-wide collaboration to align data across key trade documents, promoting interoperability and data sharing.

As part of a roundtable held at FCI’s 56th Annual Meeting in Seoul, TFG heard from a panel of experts, discussing the symbiotic relationship between credit insurance and factoring. In this article, we explore some of the regulatory challenges in this integration, and how partnerships between the two can help build a resilient financial ecosystem.

At FCI’s 56th Annual Meeting in Seoul, a panel of experts discussed the intricate relationship between credit insurance and factoring. In this article we explore a case study representing this cooperation: Germany.