At the FCI 57th Annual Meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) caught up with Karol Leszczyński, Product Development Manager at Comarch, to explore why factoring continues to stand out in times of financial stress, and how technology is reshaping the landscape.
In this article, TTP’s Carter Hoffman explores why digitisation has stalled, despite clear benefits. From the collapse of TradeLens to the rise of MLETR-based reforms in Singapore, the UK, and France, the piece highlights how legal change, tokenisation, and neutral governance models are finally creating the trust conditions for large-scale adoption.
At the ITC SME Ministerial in Johannesburg, South Africa, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Michael Marmon-Halm, Managing Director of Fairafric Chocolates, to discuss the intersection of sustainable manufacturing, trade policy, and access to finance in Ghana’s cocoa industry.
The annual report by Atradius highlights that payment reliability, once the basis of business trust, has now become a systemic risk in India.
Norton Rose Fulbright, a law firm, has advised Ocean Network Express (ONE), a shipping company, on a structured ship financing transaction involving both the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI).
Across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Central Asia, and the Caucasus, trade flows are being redrawn by a rising demand for diversification. To learn more about this shift and the impact that it has for businesses on the ground, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Raiffeisen Bank International’s (RBI) Group Head Institutional Clients, Elitza Kavrakova, and Head of Group Transaction Banking, Sabine Zucker.
To learn more about the SME sustainability toolkit and discuss how this initiative could reshape SME access to sustainable trade and finance, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Aparna Soni from the ADB and Gregory Sampson from the ITC.
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