Pakistan has opened six overland routes to Iran, allowing third-country goods to bypass Hormuz disruption and clear thousands of stranded containers. The new corridor eases pressure on Pakistani ports ...

The UAE has exited OPEC/OPEC+, reducing core membership and signalling internal fractures amid a wider geopolitical energy crisis. The move reflects Abu Dhabi’s push for greater production flexibility ...

Standard Chartered and the World Bank Group’s private-sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), have launched a $300 million risk-sharing facility aimed at expanding trade and ...

Alexander Klepp is an Underwriting Manager at Credendo, specialising in Guarantees and Specialty Risks with a focus on credit and political risk insurance (CPRI). Charles Osborne is a Director at ...

Aurionpro has launched Fintra, an AI-native trade finance platform where AI agents gradually “earn” autonomy through performance, rather than being given it upfront. Fintra replaces legacy, ...

TFG Weekly Trade Briefing, 27 April 2026 Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 North by Northwest, at its core, is a film about a man hurtling towards destinations he hadn’t chosen, staying upright as geopolitical ...

In the recent case of Kuvera Resources Pte Ltd v JP Morgan Chase Bank NA [2022] SGHC 213, the High Court of Singapore (the “Court”) considered the validity of a sanctions clause for the first time.

FCI has published their preliminary World Factoring Statistics for 2023, showing the industry experienced a rise of +3.3% in 2023.

As a result of the growing number of sanctions imposed by one country or (a group of countries) on another, which lead to the appearance of sanction clauses in the trade transactions particularly ...

On Tuesday, Maersk and IBM announced that TradeLens, their collaborative blockchain-based global trade platform, will be withdrawn from the market.

Today, the ICC DSI released their 2023 Key Trade Documents and Data Elements (KTDDE) report. The report outlines 14 key trade documents, going into depth on the definitions, purpose, and legal ...

US Bank has completed its first fully digital trade finance transaction, as financial institutions move away from paper-based processes in international trade.