Letter of Credit (LC)

The volatile global economic environment in the wake of Covid has particularly impacted the world of trade finance and supply chain management. Physical shipping delays and surging commodity prices have compounded existing issues treasurers face, such as a lack of...

A legal entity identifier (LEI) is a simple tool that can help companies build trust in new relationships. This can be especially useful for trade in and out of emerging markets. With LEIs now becoming digital, new opportunities are arising, says Benjamin Würzburger,...

Corporate treasurers are keener than ever to find new ways to integrate ESG metrics across a wide range of cash management, financing and supply chain processes.

Contour’s network-based blockchain offering could finally move trade finance out of the dark ages.

Elaine Ng, Contour’s new Head of Innovation, is looking forward to working with “a great mix of blue-sky innovation and commercialisation” as she draws up the company’s roadmap for 2022. TMI discovers more about her ambitious plans. Contour, the TMI...

Lim Soon Chong took over as DBS’ Group Head of Global Transaction Services on 1 August replacing John Laurens, who will be retiring at the end of the year. Lim, who also continues in his role as Head of Digital for DBS’ institutional banking group, spoke to TMI...

Despite the rise of digitisation up the corporate agenda, many businesses are still clinging to antiquated paper processes. This post examines how digitising trade documents will ‘consign pain points and inefficiences to the history books’. The pandemic...

Green trade finance transactions require a trade finance instrument to support an underlying green project. But with no market standards yet supporting their use, accusations of ‘greenwash’ threaten their integrity. TMI spoke to the Head of Trade Finance at one of...

TMI Corporate Recognition Award Winners 2020 In one of the toughest years for treasury in the past decade, treasury teams stepped up their innovation projects and rolled out digital best practices at speed. Here, we celebrate their successes. What a year 2020 was. As...

Cash management is critical for any business, as are well-managed operating costs and productivity, not to mention more efficient processes and relationships with suppliers. Supply chain finance (SCF) programmes tick all the boxes in delivering the above. Big retailers...

After years of discussion, trade finance digitisation is finally gaining momentum. While acceptance is growing, challenges are still present in digitising an industry as traditional as trade finance. One well-known challenge is how new technologies and platforms such...

With the first fully digital, blockchain-secured end-to-end letter of credit transaction between Nanjing Iron & Steel and Rio Tinto complete, TMI asks Rio Tinto’s Michel Alves, Customer Service Manager, Iron Ore and James Liu, Account Manager, Southern China, to...