Trade finance’s secondary market slumps on China slowdown

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Middle East & Africa, Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe

Oliver Gordon

Contributor

In spite of the industry-wide push to attract investors to trade finance in recent years, risk distribution in the market has slumped in 2015 as waning flows have seen banks hold onto the fewer trade loans they are originating.

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