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Blockchain firm R3 has appointed Alisa DiCaprio as chief economist, a newly created role for the company. DiCaprio joined R3 in 2017 as head of research, before becoming head of trade finance. Prior to this, she was a senior economist at the Asian Development Bank, where she ran a number of large-scale digitisation projects in ...
Law firm Rajah & Tann has promoted Nathanael Lin to equity partner, after he re-joined the Singapore-headquartered firm in 2020 from the shipping sector. Lin became a partner, along with 12 other lawyers, on January 1 and is based in Singapore. His practice focuses on contentious and non-contentious matters in shipping and international trade. Lin’s main ...
The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) has signed a US$15mn facility with Uzbekistan’s Invest Finance Bank (InFinBank) to provide trade finance facilities to its private sector clients. The agreement is designed to support “the import and pre-export financing needs” of the Uzbek lender’s clients, including small and medium enterprises, and boost its sharia-compliant trade ...
HSBC has appointed Syed Imtiaz Hussain as regional head of product and propositions, global trade and receivables finance (GTRF), for the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey (Menat). Hussain has been with the bank since 2015, and moves to Dubai from his previous London-based position of head of financial institutions and public sector for Europe ...
Singapore fintech Triterras has disclosed that its previous auditor, Nexia TS, raised doubts over whether its sales transactions or trade receivables were valid. Triterras, which operates blockchain-based trade finance platform Kratos, says in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that Nexia “had a disagreement with the company on the auditing scope ...