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This time last year, the trade credit and political risk insurance community was preparing for increases in Covid-related claims. The anticipated winding down of government-led assistance schemes was expected to place a strain on businesses that had been reliant on that support, leading to financial pressure and even company collapse. Instead, what happened was quite ...
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Blockchain platform MineHub has notched up the first live metals financing transaction using its trade finance application. Launched last month, MineHub Trade Finance connects borrowers to their financiers via a secure communication channel, giving them access to the real-time data set of each transaction. In this way, financiers get a direct line of sight to ...
Banks may struggle to detect fraud and comply with sanctions regulations, risking heavy fines and losses, due to a sudden inability to track thousands of vessels in Chinese waters over the last month. In late October, vessel tracking firms began registering a drop-off in data transmitted through receivers on the ground in China. The receivers ...
High freight rates and shipping congestion issues are now expected to continue into mid-2022, experts are warning, particularly if the Omicron coronavirus variant prompts fresh containment measures in the US or China. Though global trade volumes have recovered sharply since the 2020 slowdown, this year has been characterised by logistic and cost issues affecting maritime goods trade. Despite price freezes ...