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In a new partnership, trade data and analytics provider Coriolis Technologies will incorporate its environmental, social and governance (ESG) scoring system for commercial transactions executed and financed on blockchain platform MineHub. Launched in 2019, the MineHub platform focuses on trade operations and document flows between metals and mining companies. It allows parties involved in selling, buying, delivering ...

The Irish Times has teamed up with ‘sea louth’ to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a two-night stay in County Louth for two adults & two children.

Polestar Performance, a Swedish electric car maker, has closed a €350mn uncommitted green trade finance facility with a syndicate of banks, to support the import of electric vehicles (EVs) into Europe and North America. Standard Chartered acted as structuring bank, as well as coming in as mandated lead arranger together with Nordea. ING and Citi ...

Banks and trading companies are increasingly engaging in “self-sanctioning” against Russian entities in the shipping and commodities sector to avoid trouble with regulators and public displeasure, industry experts say. The US has blacklisted Sovcomflot, which owns a fleet of over 100 tankers, and several individual vessels. Sanctions against other companies and banks push the number ...

The US, European Union and UK are seeking to halt imports of Russian oil and gas, with financiers and traders urged to seek out new sourcing markets while upping support for renewables.  US President Joe Biden has announced a total ban on oil, liquified natural gas (LNG) and coal imports from Russia, while the European ...

An influential international financial crime body has added the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to its greylist of high-risk jurisdictions, though the country’s authorities tout significant improvements in the fight against illicit finance.  The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – a standard-setting organisation focused on illicit financial flows – announced last week that the Middle Eastern ...

Export credit agencies (ECAs) and trade credit insurers have hurriedly axed coverage for Russia and Belarus as the deepening conflict and western sanctions interrupt trade and major projects. At least 10 ECAs have stopped or limited coverage for the two countries since late February, when Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine. Many ...

The number of UK businesses that export has declined in the year since the United Kingdom officially separated from the European Union, according to new data from Coriolis Technologies and the Institute of Export and International Trade (IoE&IT), which find that global supply chain disruption and the impact of the pandemic are also pressuring exporters. ...

LIMERICK City and County Council has not yet paid a fine imposed on it by the Data Protection Commissioner over it’s ‘illegal’ use of CCTV cam...

On 7 March 2022, the Vietnamese Government issued Resolution No. 27/NQ-CP ("Resolution 27") on the Approval of the Dossier of Draft Personal Data…