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Adam Smith Blog June 27, 2017

• Trade finance modernization turns towards
  blockchain
• A study of European treasurers by working capital
  fintech C2FO finds that 75 are
• focusing on investing in trade finance technology
  in 2017. Colin Sharp, senior vice-
• president, EMEA at C2FO, says the shifting
  macroeconomic environment is pressuring
• corporates to refocus their efforts on trade
  finance Treasurers are facing a lot of
• uncertainty, both from the US and around Brexit.
  This is putting stress on the supply
• chain, with demand increasing and decreasing.
  Treasures want the ability to use their
• assets to make returns and give some certainty.

Source https//www.euromoney.com/article/b12khnzp
4pq9p5/trade-finance-modernization-turns-towards-b
lockchain
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Adam Smith Blog June 27, 2017

• ICC Academy unveils new e-course on digital trade
  finance and fintechs
• The educational arm of the International Chamber
  of Commerce (ICC), the ICC Academy,
• has launched an advanced-level e-course entitled
  Digital Trade Finance and Fintechs.
• The curriculum is aimed at professionals working
  in banks, corporations, financial
• institutions, insurance companies and financial
  technology (fintech) firms.

Source https//iccwbo.org/media-wall/news-speeche
s/icc-academy-unveils-new-e-course-digital-trade-f
inance-fintechs/
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• Targeting Seamless Trade Finance Operations
• As Nigerians look forward to better days when the
  economy would have stabilised and
• emerged from recession, integrated digital
  payments company, Interswitch Group, has
• struck a deal with Misys, a leading provider of
  lending, treasury, trading and risk
• management solutions to ease trade finance
  operations and improve service delivery as
• far as local banks are concerned.

Source https//www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017
/06/22/targeting-seamless-trade-finance-operations
/
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• SBI cautious in India but looking to increase
  corporate lending in Europe
• State Bank of India is trying to increase
  corporate lending in Europe. SBI Frankfurt, which
  
• has the status of an independent bank in Europe,
  has traditionally lent for trade financing
• but now wants to fund Indian business houses in
  Europe and European firms in India.
• In the recent past, there has been a conscious
  shift in strategy to lend more to European
• companies, according to an executive with SBI
  Frankfurt. Now nearly 50 per cent of the banks
• non-trade finance business portfolio consists of
  syndicated loans to European companies. SBI
• Frankfurts growth in business over the next few
  years would come from lending to European
• firms, confirmed another bank executive.

Source http//www.business-standard.com/article/f
inance/sbi-cautious-in-india-but-looking-to-increa
se-corporate-lending-in-europe-117061700260_1.html
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Trade Finance News Trends Adam Smith Associates
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Adam Smith Blog June 27, 2017

• Maersk now offering trade finance operation for
  customers
• Danish liner company Maersk Line has expanded
  into the trade finance business by allowing
• customers to finance their operations as long as
  they are shipping with Maersk.
• The financing scheme works because Maersk has a
  rich trove of customer information from
• which to base a decision on the customers
  creditworthiness, according to the
  Copenhagen-based
• company. This enables companies to manage their
  shipping and finance needs with one provider,
• rather than using one vendor for shipping and
  another vendornormally a bankfor trade
• finance, Maersk said.

Source http//www.freshplaza.com/article/177338/M
aersk-now-offering-trade-finance-operation-for-cus
tomers
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