As part of Trade Finance Week by ICC Austria, we continued Trade Finance Week, with an African view on global trade.
For trade and supply chains in Africa, access to trade finance, the past 15 months have been incredibly tough for lives, livelihoods and economies, particularly in emerging developing markets. But trade must go on. If anything, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many efforts to rethink the way we do trade. Is paper really necessary and is there a way that we can rethink trade documents? How has trade based financial crime fared in Africa, and what must we do to keep bad actors out of the trade system? And is this finally an opportunity for us to bring sustainability right to the forefront, as a business imperative, rather than just a nice to have? In this podcast, we talk AfCTFA, MANSA and the digital future of African trade, discussing trade digitisation, risk and compliance and sustainability.
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Full transcript here: https://www.tradefinanceglobal.com/posts/video-africa-focus-trade-digitisation-trade-finance-week-2021/ and here: https://www.tradefinanceglobal.com/posts/video-africa-focus-sustainable-trade-trade-finance-week-2021/
Taking on Europe’s credit risk insurance rules with ITFA’s Silja Calac, Jean-Maurice Elkouby
Veridapt - How a revolution in stockpile and supply chain monitoring can transform trade finance
Islamic finance guru Daud Vicary on fintech, sustainability, and other engines of growth
‘Open by default’ - Finastra’s Iain MacLennan on partnerships, digitalisation, and helping SMEs triumph in uncertain times
Bent but not broken? TDM’s John Miller on global trade resilience as we say goodbye to COVID-19, and hello to war in Ukraine
Ships, sanctions, and suspicious vessels: How AIS and other trickery is confounding compliance
EBRD’s Rudolf Putz on delivering trade finance to emerging markets during COVID-19, and looking to a greener future
What does the future hold for LNG?
U-shaped recovery - ICISA’s Richard Wulff on trade credit insurance and its bounce back from the pandemic
Getting SaaS into surety and credit insurance - Tinubu’s co-founder talks insurtech
Pole Star, CarbonChain partnership delivers single-service sustainability, compliance solution
Sibos special: BAFT’s Tod Burwell, on the last century of trade and transaction banking
The evolution of SWIFT
Italy perspective - The future of open banking: automatic IBAN, PSD2 and APIs
Digitising trade: the time is now
The freight crisis: HGV driver shortage, shipping blockages and the digital future of freight
WOA Insights: Receivables rebounding and the role of open account finance post COVID-19
Chief Economist insights: are iron ore prices propping up global trade?
ICC Banking Commission’s Lynn Ng on the need to simplify trade
Electronic Documents and English Law: the roadmap to digital trade documents
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