Despite the continued impact of the pandemic, the disruption to global supply chains and the transformative effect of technology on trade and trade finance, GTR’s most-read stories of 2021 focused on the commodity finance sector. In some cases, the most popular stories – as measured by page views – were outlier events. In one example, ...
The Biden administration has gained legislative ground in its efforts to rebuild US infrastructure and overhaul the country’s energy mix. Felix Thompson speaks to …
Governments, investors and at least one billionaire are betting big that humble hydrogen, the simple ‘H’ in ‘H2O’, can accelerate a global energy transition …
Sustainability-linked financing, where borrowers are rewarded for sustainability improvements, has been enthusiastically embraced by sectors such as energy and agribusiness. But it’s still a …
The coal industry faces an existential crisis in developing countries, as major economies cut export credit and other financial support for new power plants. …
The controversy surrounding metals tycoon Sanjeev Gupta has shone a light on the use of trade transactions primarily as a means of generating liquidity. …
6Estates, which has developed an intelligent document processing platform to overcome frictions in trade, was the unanimous choice of judges at last year’s GTR …
Widely considered the financial and logistics hub of East Africa, and with government reforms continuing to improve the business climate, Kenya is well-positioned to …
George Wilson, Head of Institutional Trade Finance, and Derryn Faure, Institutional Trade Finance, at Investec Bank Limited, outline their argument for why African trade …
In a December roundtable event in New York, GTR gathered senior leaders in trade credit and political risk insurance to discuss the myriad disruptive …