ERP vendors trade-up
Leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors, SAP and Oracle, are rapidly moving up the supply chain with a view to expanding further into trade finance services, which could have profound consequ
Meeting the challenges of transformation
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Justin Pugsley introduces our extensive look into the latest trends, innovations and issues in the world of trade services and the supply chain.
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Which way will you go
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Partnership is becoming the new buzz word in outsourcing, writes Justin Pugsley.
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With costs of doing business being ratcheted ever highe
Securing a profit
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Lionel Taylor, Head of Trade & Supply Chain at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), explains how banks can continue to make money out of trade finance with everything going ele
Securing a profit
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Lionel Taylor, Head of Trade & Supply Chain at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), explains how banks can continue to make money out of trade finance with everything going ele
Five point the way
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GTR pulled in five trade heads from leading international banks to question about trends in the market. Between them, they offer interesting bank perceptio
All about supply
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Trade services vendors are increasingly adapting products to supply chains, writes Justin Pugsley.
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The latest round of technology releases and upg
The future ain’t what it used to be
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SWIFT’s senior product manager, Supply Chain Business Solutions, David Hennah, explains how the SWIFTNet Trade Services Utility will help bank
New rules
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The UCP has a direct impact on 10-15% of total world trade - a vast amount. Leo Cullen, DC-PRO product manager, brings us up to date with the latest revision of world trade’s
UPS Capital: From supply chain to eco-system
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For the last seven years UPS Capital has been developing its offering around the concept of ‘synchronised supply chain’s to bring toge
Polls apart
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GTR ’s annual readers’s poll to find out who the leading institutions involved in trade services and the supply chain has collated its results. We added t
With Asia driving a commodity finance boom, Australian banks and exporters have been taking advantage. Shelley Dempsey looks at the global reach of Australian institutions in the emerging markets.
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If there’s one t
The forfaiting community gathered in Istanbul recently, but compared to previous years, there was a feeling of calm and real content. The IFA seems to have come of age, writes Rupert Sayer, with no great fireworks fired from the floor this time aro
Aqaba is the key
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Jordan’s reliance on its only seaport - Aqaba - is of paramount importance to the country. Good news for Jordan then that it has just cemented a new agreement between
Was war good for Lebanon
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Lebanon may be down, but don’t count it out, writes Nicholas Noe from Beirut. The recent resurgence of war in the country might actually be good for Lebanon
From the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Exim)'s annual conference, GTR reports on the support the export credit agency has been lending to US exports.