EBRD's Trade Facilitation Programme graduate student awards

At the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Trade Facilitation Programme graduate student award ceremony in Minsk on 17th March, Michael Bickers - Managing Director of BCR Publishing, told the audience to be prepared for receivables finance to have an increasing impact on international trade

Afreximbank in $1bn partnership with Eximbank

Afreximbank and the Export-Import Bank of China (China Eximbank) are to develop a new $1bn investment and industrialization programme to help accelerate Africa’s industrialization and enhance trade between the continent and China

More challenges but still some opportunities for factors

At the CFA Factoring and Supply Chain Finance World event in Miami earlier this month the opening theme presented by Bob Trojan, CEO of the CFA suggested yet more challenges for the sector and in particular how financial technology is now impacting all aspects of how business is originated, analyzed and funded, affecting everyone from the smallest factor to the largest global bank

Afreximbank seeking partnership with China

Afreximbank has proposed the establishment of twinning arrangements between leading industrial parks in China and African cities with industrial aspirations to help to accelerate the industrialization of the continent