Financing sustains and propels global trade. It assures that businesses can operate smoothly across borders by providing essential capital, bridging the gap between production and payment. This role ...

For more than 160 years, trade finance has been central to HSBC’s identity. In 2024, the bank’s Global Trade Solutions (GTS) franchise reaffirmed that legacy, delivering $2.6 billion in trade revenues ...

As environmental, social and governance factors continue to reshape the financial landscape, many investors are left wondering about the future of credit insurance in sectors facing ESG pressures.

In hindsight, summer 2001 was a precarious time to launch an annual ranking of the world’s Best Trade Finance Banks. Just months later, the 9/11 attacks would destroy New York’s World Trade Center, ...

Africa’s economic growth has slowed markedly over the last 10 years. The solutions are many, but ultimately African countries need to move further up the value chain and diversify into new products.

Global trade finance is undergoing a structural reset. Rising geopolitical risk, supply-chain fragmentation, tighter compliance standards, and the push toward real-time, digital execution are forcing ...