Most leading providers of trade finance have welcomed changes to disclosure rules despite research suggesting they could negatively impact demand.

As interest rate volatility persists, corporates are taking a hard look at their trade finance options.

Twinco Capital facilitates access to sustainable funding by focusing on pre-production finance.

Business-to-business buy-now-pay-later providers are optimistic that economic uncertainty and higher interest rates will drive corporates to pay suppliers sooner and secure inventory more rapidly.

The impact of the supply chain disruption that was such a notable feature of last year’s trade finance survey continues to be felt as banks widen the range of services designed to improve corporate resilience.

Big transaction banks are responding to corporate customer demand for sustainability linked supplier-finance programmes by extending the geographical availability and range of the products they offer.

Strategies and financing need to be radically reassessed to achieve sustainability in a rapidly changing world.

More awareness by corporates of the role played by small suppliers has boosted early payment programmes.

Several FIs hope to capitalize on an easing in physical supply-chain constraints to extend trade-finance offerings.

In a momentous year for the industry, the top tier of trade finance banks remained remarkably stable in this year’s Trade Finance Survey. Supply chain disruption will continue to bedevil the sector and liquidity provision together with digital innovation will place sizeable demands on trade finance banks in 2022.

Corporates want to improve sustainability in their supply chains, but, if anything, the barriers to doing so are getting worse.

Global supply-chain bottlenecks have profound implications for how and where companies will fund their operations in the future. As the lines of ships lengthen outside ports, there’s a macroeconomic cost for banks weighing on loan demand and perhaps asset quality. However, some trade and logistics financing businesses that were previously on the margins of banking are now seizing their moment.

Banks are taking a more proactive approach to sustainable trade finance, recognizing that their responsibilities extend beyond simply providing financially competitive products.

If the market for sustainable finance is ever to achieve true scale, it needs to crack the tough nut of sustainable trade finance solutions.

Previously known as reverse factoring, sustainable supply-chain finance is one of the products currently generating the most interest among both banks and their corporate clients.

Buoyed by relatively healthy balance sheets, corporates have demonstrated a willingness to directly support the financial health of their supply chains since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Customers are starting to embrace digital forwarders that provide supply chain finance services as well as digitized freight forwarding.

Supply chain finance management is more than just about extending favourable payment terms – corporates now need their banks to be involved all along the chain to keep their suppliers operating.