Trade Finance

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In this paper, Jean-Francois Tapprest and Urban Ljungblom analyse the ups and downs of we.trade, a digital platform that could have transformed the way Trade Finance is done. Trade Finance processes are old-fashioned, cumbersome, slow and costly International Trade Finance is still a paper based and labour intensive activity which…

Trade finance is the facilitation of international trade and commerce where a third party is introduced to remove risk between buyers and sellers. Companies need trade finance to improve the efficiency of deals by using a third party to improve cash flow. …

Published on December 6, 2022 by Richa Prakash Documentary collection is an inexpensive payment method used extensively between parties to international trade. It is attractive to both buyers and sellers because bank charges are cheaper than for documentary credit, and it is less risky than open accounts. …

When most SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises) require funds, they typically approach centralised entities such as a bank. The process is usually very tiresome; even if the application is successful, the interest rates can be exorbitantly high. Decentralised finance or “DeFi” aims to solve this problem by removing the need…

Having cash in your bank account is critical for SME’s to survive and grow. But, how to release the cash value locked up in your Balance Sheet? Factoring, also known as receivables finance, invoice discounting, or debtor financing is a financial process where companies can sell their outstanding invoices for…

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