Buyers and suppliers stand to benefit from the greater transparency and coordination enabled by the digitalisation of supply chain finance platforms, says Mashreq Bank Global study indicates $1tn gap ...

Discussions around the impact of technology often refer to what is known as Amara’s Law, which hypothesises that the impact of new technologies is overestimated in the short term while the long-term ...

The gap between demand and supply for trade finance – or the trade finance gap – is currently estimated at $1.5 trillion globally, according to figures from the Asian Development Bank. The ICC’s 10th ...

Looking across the complexity of Trade Finance the notion of a problem child description comes to mind from another era. Today our methodologies are starting to become agile. With the abundance of ...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is stepping up its support for the digital transition of trade finance by facilitating test transactions between QNB ALAHLI, Banca ...

Despite digitalisation being an absolute necessity these days, only 36 percent of SMEs have made the leap. And with global headwinds slamming all economies, it is imperative SMEs ‘get with the ...

LIKE many e-commerce players, home-grown digital commerce solutions provider SCI Ecommerce saw exponential growth during Covid-19, as brick-and-mortar retailers flocked online. But as online sales ...

The co-chair of the UN Secretary-General’s Task Force on Digital Finance discusses a UN report on accelerating the delivery and financing of the sustainable development goals. NOMPU SISIBA: The task ...

In the digital currency arena, the Reserve Bank is at the forefront with pilot runs of the e-rupee, the central bank digital currency (CBDC) Digitalisation in finance is paving the way for ...

Kuala Lumpur – New research* with leading Islamic finance professionals is predicting a dramatic increase in the digitalisation of the sector as spending on technology and new digital financial ...