GTR News Brief Episode 24

2021-01-20

Host Felix Thompson gives a breakdown of the major stories in trade and trade finance news this week. Rabobank plans to streamline its trade and commodity finance offering by terminating operations in London, Shanghai and Sydney, GTR can reveal. Pressure is mounting against fintech firm Triterras over the transactions taking place on its blockchain-based trade finance platform Kratos. In its 16th annual Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum has stressed the ine...

Host Felix Thompson gives a breakdown of the major stories in trade and trade finance news this week.

Rabobank plans to streamline its trade and commodity finance offering by terminating operations in London, Shanghai and Sydney, GTR can reveal.

Pressure is mounting against fintech firm Triterras over the transactions taking place on its blockchain-based trade finance platform Kratos.

In its 16th annual Global Risks Report, the World Economic Forum has stressed the inequalities and challenges that countries and their exporters face in their recovery from the pandemic.

Senior reporter John Basquill also provides a closer analysis of a new Make UK and PwC report looking at British manufacturers’ main risks this year, and explains why the new UK-EU trade agreement ranks top of their concerns.

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