James Reynolds will become chief executive of specialist credit and political risk insurance broker BPL next year when the ...

The World Bank has appointed Mizuho banker Tsutomu Yamamoto as managing director of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee ...

The GTR Leaders in Trade awards highlight excellence in the trade, commodity, supply chain, export finance and fintech markets. The winners in each category are based on submissions sent to GTR. Where ...

Blockchain trade finance initiative Contour has now left beta, bringing the decentralised, digital trade finance platform into full live production. Owned by eight shareholder banks – Bangkok Bank, ...

The SBTi has released its first net-zero standard for financial institutions, calling for an end to financing fossil fuel expansion.

Global financial messaging coordinator Swift has launched two AI pilot projects to target cross-border payments fraud.

HSBC can continue gaining market share in trade finance despite uncertainty created by US tariffs, chief executive Georges Elhedery has said, as the bank reported a bump in trade revenue in the first ...

A group of trade finance veterans has launched ETR Digital, a technology company offering digital negotiable instruments (DNIs) to businesses and banks for trade. The company says in a release that it ...

Singapore has become the second country to adopt the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Transferable Records (MLETR) into domestic legislation, a move which sees the city-state grant electronic trade ...

Singapore has been rocked by the sudden downfall of two major oil traders. The collapses of Hin Leong and ZenRock – and serious allegations of fraud – have left banks on edge, despite efforts by ...

Two Hong Kong-based oil traders say banks have reacted to the fraud scandal in Singapore’s commodities finance sector by restricting credit to the wider market, resulting in substantial financial ...