The UK passed the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act last month in a bid to mitigate the economic fallout for struggling companies in the Covid-19 epoch. The impact of the reforms on the trade and commodities space is significant, especially given many international financings and commercial arrangements in those sectors are governed by English law.

From entry-level hiring and management promotion to ECA and DFI mandates, TXF’s Stages for Change series examines the role the trade and export finance industries must play in challenging racism, sexism, and social injustice.

The $1.5 trillion trade finance gap is a heavy burden for SMEs in emerging markets, one which financial institutions have long sought to ease. In partnership with Comarch, TXF hosted a webinar to consider the extent to which technology can bridge this gap.

The high-profile collapse of Singaporean-based oil trader Hin Leong and other certain suspect cases has highlighted malpractices within the sector and concern for future lendings. Jonathan Bell assesses what this all means for the commodity finance community in the city state.

In the fifth of a series of insights on the impact of Covid-19 on the global economy, Orbian CEO Tom Dunn interviews Felix de Grey, a writer and urbanism specialist, to discuss how cities have been affected by the pandemic and what cultural and infrastructural changes can be expected going forward.