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Commerzbank’s Gerald Dannhaeuser, Regional Head of Financial Institutions for GCC, and Mehtap Ak-Sisman, Senior Representative in Dubai, consider how sustainability, tourism, international sports and technological innovation are driving new opportunities in the GCC.
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.
The US dollar has experienced significant depreciation over the past six months, marking what analysts at UBS describe as “perhaps the biggest surprise of 2025 so far.”
As revealed in the latest Berne Union H1 2025 report, Berne Union Business Confidence Trends Index, insurers are simultaneously adjusting their sails to capture the favourable winds of demand while bracing for the storm of anticipated claims.
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.
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.