At the Asian Development Bank’s Trade & Supply Chain Finance Program (TSCFP) Awards in Singapore, Trade Treasury Payments spoke with Ana Kavtaradze, Strategic Business Development Consultant at Basisbank, about Georgia’s role in digitalising trade and supporting SMEs.

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.

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.

At the ITC Global SME Ministerial in Johannesburg, South Africa, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Mathieu Lamolle, Senior Advisor on Sustainable and Inclusive Value Chains at the International Trade Centre (ITC), to explore how the SME Standards Navigation Toolkit is helping small businesses meet sustainability requirements while unlocking access to finance and global markets.

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At the Tashkent International Investment Forum, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Mansur Rasulev, Acting Director at the Investment Promotion Agency of Uzbekistan, to discuss how the country is reframing structural disadvantages into economic opportunities.

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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.

At the ITC SME Ministerial in Johannesburg, South Africa, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Sibongile Isaacs, the co-founder of Ting Tang Teas, to get an inside look at a small business operating in the global south.