At the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) 51st Annual Conference in Singapore, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Sean Edwards, Chairman of ITFA, to reflect on the association’s priorities and the themes shaping trade finance today.

At the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) Annual Conference in Singapore, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Dr. Rebecca Harding, author of The World at Economic War and Editorial Board Member at TTP, about her work on social return on investment (SROI) and the shifts in global trade.

TTP’s Trade Editor Carter Hoffman sat down with Carlos Kuriyama, Director of the Policy Support Unit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat in Singapore, to discuss how APEC is shaping the future of cross-border trade. 

The ICC Digital Standards Initiative (ICC DSI), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) convened the Digital Trade Transformation Forum in Geneva on 10th September, addressing the challenge of fragmented digital trade systems.

At ICC Austria’s Trade Finance Week, Florian Witt shared his experience as the new Chair of the ICC Banking Commission and outlined his plans for the organisation’s direction while reflecting on his first 100 days in office.

China has initiated steps to allow major Russian energy corporations to issue panda bonds in its domestic financial markets, marking the first such access since 2017, as reported by the FT.

The ITFA Emerging Leaders Awards were created to do something most conferences only talk about: give the mic and the main stage to the next generation. What began as a young professionals push is now a fixture with a clear mandate to make trade finance visible and viable as a career, and platform ideas that move the market.

In this second double take, we heard from Craig Weeks, SVP Trade at BAFT (Bankers Association for Finance and Trade). It’s time to act on trade digitisation. Now.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working in textile and apparel sectors across the Asia-Pacific now have access to a free online platform to assess their ability to meet sustainability certifications—as increasingly demanded by buyers worldwide—and to build actionable plans to strengthen their participation in sustainable trade.