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Join senior executives and leaders in transaction banking, trade, and payments at the premier forum shaping the future of finance in the MENA region. 📅 When: January 21-22, 2025 📍 Where: Dubai, UAE This event will focus on the most pressing issues in the Middle East and North Africa’s financial landscape. Network with industry leaders, engage in dedicated bank-to-bank meetings, and gain actionable insights to drive business growth. ♻️ This year’s theme, Fostering Growth Through Connectivity, emphasizes collaboration, innovation, and the use of advanced technologies like AI and tokenization to unlock regional and global opportunities. Some of the key sessions to look forward to: 💼 BAFT (Bankers Association for Finance and Trade) Women in Transaction Banking Forum – MENA: A panel session on Breaking the Glass Ceiling in Transaction Banking with real-life stories from women leaders like Selima Mehiri (Barclays), Khadija Al Hammady (RAKBANK), and Komal Bajaj (Visa). 🔥 CEO Fireside Chat: Featuring Raja Al Mazrouei (Etihad Credit Insurance) and Tod Burwell (BAFT). 🌍 Future of Transaction Banking in MENA: Insights on navigating new geopolitical realities and financial systems fragmentation with speakers from J.P. Morgan, Arab Bank, and First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB). 🌱 Sustainable Banking Panel: A dialogue with sustainability leaders on MENA’s ESG initiatives, financial inclusion, and the intersection of AI and digitisation with sustainability goals.   🎸 Keynote – Rockstar Customer Experience: James Dodkins, the ‘Customer Experience Rockstar,’ delivers an unforgettable session combining music and CX strategy. TFG is a proud media partner for this event, stay tuned for more updates! ✍ Learn more and register through the link in the comments. #baft #banking #forum

🇲🇽 Can Mexico weather a second wave of Trump’s trade policies? 🇨🇦 In light of Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigning as his party’s leader in early January, and with Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo only holding office since October, Donald Trump may be facing an entirely new set of neighbours upon taking office at the end of the Month. 🇺🇸 As Donald Trump prepares for a potential second term, the big question is: what’s next for Mexico? Could a new wave of tariffs or stricter rules under the USMCA push Mexico to the brink again, or has it learned enough from the past to weather whatever might come?    📖 Read the article by following the link in the comments section below ⬇️ #Mexico #Mexicantrade #USA #tradepolicies | Carter Hoffman

💰 LatAm payments company dLocal adds FCA authorisation 🇺🇾 The Uruguay-based payments company dLocal has secured a payment institution licence from Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). 💸 The cross-border payments specialist, which facilitates transactions between merchants and customers across emerging markets, will conduct UK operations through its subsidiary Larstal Limited. 👍 The regulatory approval enables dLocal to directly onboard British merchants for the first time, following previous limitations imposed in the wake of Brexit. 🗣️ “The differentiating factor for us when we think of our UK base of merchants is that the geographies where we serve them, and those are the only geographies we work,” chief executive Pedro Arnt said. 📖 Read the news with the link in the comments! #payments #crossborderpayment

💻 SC Ventures targets APAC small businesses with new fintech platform ⚙️ SC Ventures by Standard Chartered, Standard Chartered’s innovation arm, has today launched a digital platform to assist small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the Asia Pacific region. ➡️ The new venture, called Labamu, offers digital invoicing and billing services alongside integrated banking features. It launches first in Indonesia, but expansion is planned across APAC, tapping into the region’s $2.5 trillion SME market. 🖥️ The platform aims to help SMEs boost sales through both physical and digital marketplaces. Users can receive payments directly into their bank accounts through embedded banking services, with working capital financing planned for future rollout. 🗣️ “Every small business contributes to shared economic prosperity and we want to empower them,” said Emmanuel van de Geer, CEO of Labamu. 📖 Read the news with the link in the comments! #StandardChartered #digitalisation #fintech #payments

🌍 Top geopolitical trends and risks 2025 📖 Read about the top geopolitical trends and risks in 2025 with PANGEA-RISK’s insights, distributed by TFG. 📅 2025 is a volatile year for geopolitics and macroeconomics, and it can be hard to stay on top of all the news. 🤔 What is going on in the world? Pangea-Risk discusses frontier and emerging market elections coming up in 2025. 🖥️ Click the link in the comments to read about Pangea-Risk’s insights.

📰In case you missed last week’s news on #tradefinance, here’s your Monday morning coffee briefing from TFG to catch-up ☕ 🔷 Trade Finance Global (TFG) commits to highest editorial standards through IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation) regulation 🔷 VIDEO | Approaches to the MLETR 🔷 How Malaysia’s digital procurement system empowers SMEs and factoring companies 🔷 Unlocking Latin America’s e-commerce potential: A blueprint for success 🔷 PODCAST | Tariffs, trade wars, and transformation: The next four years of Trump 🔷 South Korea unveils record W360tr trade financing package 🔷 VOXPOP | Dhiresh Dave on inventory finance 🔷 Trade Finance Global’s 2024 Year in Review 📖 Read the full trade briefing by following the link in the comments section below ⬇️

🎙️ PODCAST | Inventory finance: A stocking filler for 2025? 🧸 With an estimated 2 billion children in the world, the elves needed to produce around 5.5 million toys every single day of the year just to have enough for every child to find one under their tree last Christmas morning. 🎙️ At the International Trade Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) end of year party, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Sean Edwards, Chairman of ITFA, and Dhiresh Dave, Chief Legal Officer and Managing Director – Legal, Compliance and Governance at Falcon Group, to discuss a financing tool that may have come in handy for Saint Nicholas last year: inventory finance. 🗣️ Dave said, “[The inventory finance market] is still very much in its infancy, given that the interest in it has been driven by supply chain disruption. In current times, the only thing that is certain is uncertainty when it comes to global trade, and a solution to ensure that you have the inventory where you need it and when you need it is something that corporates cannot afford not to have in their toolkit.” 🎧 Listen to the full podcast, link in the comments section below ⬇️ #inventoryfinance #supplychains #TRADEFINANCETALKS | Deepesh Patel | Carter Hoffman

📰🌐 TFG commits to highest editorial standards through IPSO regulation 📢 Trade Finance Global (TFG) announces its decision to join the IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organisation), the UK's leading press regulator, demonstrating our unwavering commitment to delivering credible and accountable journalism to our readers. “Joining IPSO marks a significant milestone in our publication's history,” said Deepesh Patel, Editorial Director of TFG. “Our readers deserve journalism they can trust, and IPSO regulation provides independent accountability that helps ensure we maintain the highest possible editorial standards.”   📖 Read the news by following the link in the comments section below ⬇️ #Editorial #TFGnews