UKEF’s Carl Williamson outlines how record funding, digital tools, and risk management are helping UK exporters grow globally amid geopolitical uncertainty.

BAFT’s paper shares ten lessons from the global shift to ISO 20022, covering governance, communication, data quality, and collaboration to ensure migration success.

At ICC Austria’s Trade Finance Week, Andrea Hauptmann, founding member and independent international consultant, shared her vast expertise on bank guarantees in an interview with Deepesh Patel, Editor of Trade Treasury Payments.

At the Komgo Rooftop Networking Event in Singapore, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Baptiste Audren, Chief Revenue Officer at Komgo, about how the company is helping corporates and banks manage guarantees, letters of credit, and standbys more efficiently.

The Berne Union (BU) has opened submissions for its Blended Finance Hackathon, an initiative designed to generate solutions for mobilising private capital into emerging markets.

A new report from Britain’s export credit agency, UK Export Finance (UKEF), highlights its highest-ever support for exporters: £14.5 billion in guarantees, loans, and insurance, up from £8.8 billion the year before.

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Trade has become well-established and recognised among practitioners and policymakers as an effective way to support and advance international development and poverty reduction. Multilateral institutions, including multilateral development banks (MDBs), have embraced this perspective, and most leading MDBs today put significant priority on the nexus between trade and development.