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At the Lansdowne Club in London on 15 July 2025, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP), in collaboration with Sullivan, held our first-ever Breakfast Club. With the scent of coffee still hanging in the air, a select audience gathered to explore a deceptively simple question: Who can really grow supply chain finance, and how?
At the inaugural Commonwealth Business Summit, held alongside the Commonwealth Trade Ministers’ Meeting, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke to representatives from ICC United Kingdom, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and MonetaGo to discuss the intersection of trade digitalisation, multilateral development, and institutional alignment.
The first-ever Global SME Ministerial Meeting, co-hosted by the International Trade Centre (ITC) and the Government of South Africa, took place over three late July days in Johannesburg.
Small businesses have an unenviable status in the push for global climate action, being expected to lower emissions, bolster resilience, and remain competitive, all at the same time. For many of them, however, the tools, finance, or incentives to do so just aren’t there.
According to a new white paper from the International Trade Centre (ITC), the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is now central to their competitiveness, their access to markets, and, in many cases, their survival.
Ministers and senior officials from more than 60 countries have endorsed a coordinated policy agenda aimed at strengthening small business competitiveness through targeted action on finance, digitalisation, and sustainability.
The inaugural Global SME Ministerial Meeting opened yesterday in Johannesburg, marking the first international gathering dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at a ministerial level.
According to the Global SME Ministerial White Paper on access to finance for small businesses, despite having viable business models, small businesses often struggle to access the capital they need to grow, innovate, or even survive.