Means, Motive, Opportunity
If customers fail to pay you on time your business could fail. Here is a basic survival kit to help you avoid such a negative outcome. Ron Wells is the ChevronTexaco credit manager for globa
When is trade finance really trade finance and does it matter The boundaries are in dispute and some bankers don’t like it. As more trade finance deals start to look like corporate loans, can we truly justify the trade tag And are ban
Breaking the silence
ECGD’s chief executive Patrick Crawford has given his first interview to media - exclusively to GTR - since taking over at the department one year previously. With ECGD’s long-awaited swit
Evolving to survive
It's a seller's market out there, with forfaiters all chasing the same deals and many desperate for business. Margins are at laughable levels for some risks and liquidity at all-time high. As Rupert Saye
SME financing thrives
India is a market everyone wants to crack. Its huge number of potential corporate clients offer rich pickings for banks and insurers. Luis Waldmann looks here at small and medium-sized (SME) sector opp
Lítschg-Emmenegger is one of the forfaiting market's leading authorities. She spent time variously at Barclays, MidAval, West Merchant Bank and WestLB and was a board member of the Swiss Forfaiting Association (Vefi) and a founding member and driving force behind the International Forfaiting Association (IFA) and Association of Forfaiters in the Americas (Afia).
China has been leaning on Latin America to sustain its economic surge, as Luis Waldmann finds out. Trade between the two blocs has been growing at a phenomenal rate.
An LC express
Governing law and jurisdiction in letters of credit - should there be an express clause Richard Gwynne, partner at law firm Stephenson Harwood, looks at some recent cases.
Goals loom ever nearer Vendors of automated trade finance and payments technology and platforms are meeting a range of market requirements, and some say that critical mass is within reach, writes Kevin Godier.
Banks vamp up the game
The pace at which technology is evolving - and ramping up business efficiency globally - remains the key evolutionary driver for trade services extended by banks to their corporate clients, writes Kev
Euro-Med 2010: a base for growth and trade
The establishment of Euro-Med Free Trade Area in 2010 is expected to accelerate trade growth and opportunities for the establishment of new trade financing tools in a trading bloc
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Banks are jostling for a stake in South Africa’s promising renewable energy sector. Will this be the next best thing for the project finance market, asks GTR deputy editor Shannon Manders?
