Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMBC) is joining two blockchain trade finance consortia, komgo and Contour to improve efficiency in trade.The Japanese bank has already trialed the Marco Polo open account blockchain platform. It also signed a deal with Japan’s SBI to explore taking 14% stake...
Asia’s export finance market is open and institutionally committed — but quieter on volume, stricter on content, and leaning on LNG and strategic supply chains rather than a...
With a total aggregated debt volume of $70.8 billion in the first half this year, ECA activity was solid but not necessarily in the sectors it needs to be to realise the race...
Massimo Pollio, CEO of Imagro, evangelises about the potential for supplier credits for European growth, financing Egyptian rail infrastructure, working with Sace using its 'push' strategy, on the sidelines of TXF Global in Prague.
Asia’s export finance market is open and institutionally committed — but quieter on volume, stricter on content, and leaning on LNG and strategic supply chains rather than a pure green boom.
With a total aggregated debt volume of $70.8 billion in the first half this year, ECA activity was solid but not necessarily in the sectors it needs to be to realise the race to net zero.
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