In recent years, players in the oil and gas industry have progressed from using digital technologies for select use cases to making their entire processes digital. Certain technologies – such as ...

Buyers and suppliers stand to benefit from the greater transparency and coordination enabled by the digitalisation of supply chain finance platforms, says Mashreq Bank Global study indicates $1tn gap ...

The gap between demand and supply for trade finance – or the trade finance gap – is currently estimated at $1.5 trillion globally, according to figures from the Asian Development Bank. The ICC’s 10th ...

Discussions around the impact of technology often refer to what is known as Amara’s Law, which hypothesises that the impact of new technologies is overestimated in the short term while the long-term ...

The ongoing economic volatility and widening trade finance gap highlight the urgent need to revamp the entire ecosystem. If trade is the gear that drives the global economy, trade finance is the oil ...

LIKE many e-commerce players, home-grown digital commerce solutions provider SCI Ecommerce saw exponential growth during Covid-19, as brick-and-mortar retailers flocked online. But as online sales ...

Over the past two years, chief finance officers (CFOs), accountants and their teams have played an invaluable role in steering organisations through turbulent times. Over the past two years, chief ...

The marine offshore sector provides a blueprint of how data can be harnessed to improve fuel efficiency. Digitalisation in the Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) sector has become a necessity in response ...

Looking across the complexity of Trade Finance the notion of a problem child description comes to mind from another era. Today our methodologies are starting to become agile. With the abundance of ...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is stepping up its support for the digital transition of trade finance by facilitating test transactions between QNB ALAHLI, Banca ...

Kuala Lumpur – New research* with leading Islamic finance professionals is predicting a dramatic increase in the digitalisation of the sector as spending on technology and new digital financial ...