Trade Finance

The US-China truce runs to 10 January, but China’s rare earth pause still ends on 10 November in writing. What the two dates mean for trade finance.

Finastra launched StandbyX on October 19, offering US banks a cloud-enabled service for digitising standby letter of credit processing. The…

BRAC Bank has gone live with Finastra’s Trade Innovation and Corporate Channels, alongside Conpend’s Trade AI solutions, according to an…

ASEAN will sign its Digital Economy Framework Agreement in November. What DEFA means for payments, data and trade documents as WTO talks stall.

Tanker attacks and conflicting claims over Hormuz leave ICC rules intact, shifting delay, insurance and working capital risk onto exporters and importers.

National Bank of Bahrain is the first bank in BENEFIT’s Trade Finance Registry, which lets lenders check an invoice before they fund it.

Centalion has deployed its own AI Treasury Agent on Komgo’s Konsole, cutting issuance time by around 55% and amendment time by around 80% on its first facility.

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has put foreign banks on notice. In an alert issued under…

Mayer Brown has hired Michelle Herman, a structured finance lawyer, for its global trade finance practice in New York. According…

FCI has finished a succession it announced in February. Betül Kurtuluş is now secretary general of the factoring industry association,…