Trade Finance Insight

This issue includes an interview with Afreximbank on the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, we examine the concept of Transition Finance and the proposed Electronic Trade Documents Bill.

In this issue, we feature trade finance and the efforts to boost intra-African trade and developments in the digitisation of trade in Singapore.

This issue leads with commentary on two long awaited documents in the trade finance market - the LMA borrowing base facility and the Uniform Rules for Digital Trade Transaction.

This edition examines some useful tools to be deployed in the world of trade financing to help parties navigate their way through the uncertainty of a post-pandemic world.

In this post-Brexit edition, we examine the implications of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement for businesses engaged in international trade and related financing activities.

We focus on three major topics that are set to play their part in the global economic recovery process: technology, the transition to risk free rates and the role of ESG criteria in financial markets.