Standard Chartered’s Future of Trade: Resilience report reveals how 1,200 corporates across 17 markets are navigating one of global trade’s most turbulent decades. From AI and tariffs to supply chain realignment and digital treasury transformation, businesses are adopting multi-pronged strategies to build resilience, manage rising costs, and seize opportunities across emerging trade corridors.

Youth-led protests are reshaping politics and impacting economies across emerging markets, with unrest spreading from Nepal to Kenya, Indonesia, to Mongolia. Driven by inequality, corruption, and exclusion, these movements mobilise rapidly through digital platforms and resist blunt state repression. As demographic shifts intensify, recurring protest cycles are set to become structural features of politics, testing resilience and demanding forward-looking strategies from policymakers and businesses alike.

The World Bank Group’s private sector arm, IFC, has completed its first global securitisation of emerging market loans, a $510 million collateralised loan obligation (CLO) listed in London.

LSEG Risk Intelligence has launched World-Check On Demand, a platform that transforms how risk intelligence data is created and delivered to financial institutions. The solution provides real-time access to trusted sanctions data, politically exposed persons (PEPs) information, adverse media, and enforcement actions through an API-based delivery system.

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Supply chains have never been more digitised or more scrutinised. As goods move across road, rail, air, and sea, data too now moves through platforms, portals, systems, and registries. Yet, despite the vast (and quickly growing) amounts of data flows, there is a glaring gap in the ability to confirm exactly who is on the other end.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has released its latest Regional Economic Prospects report for September 2025, titled “Under Pressure,” which indicates moderate growth but highlights several mounting challenges. 

80% of financial institutions across the globe face substantial delays in their risk screening processes, according to new research by LSEG Risk Intelligence. Additionally, nearly one-third (31%) of these institutions encounter these delays often, while 6% experience them during every single screening process. 

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.