Trade & Supply Chain

War and weather highlight the vulnerability of supplies critical to humanity’s future—especially food staples and the metals for renewable energy.

International trade remains robust, even as the world’s multinationals  reshore, near-shore and otherwise reshape the interlocking pieces. 

Shipments of iPhones from Apple’s iPhone manufacturer are likely to be delayed as have steel, electronics, and auto assembly products headed for India.

Fergus King is vice president of global supply chain for consumer products at TomTom, a  mapping and geolocation-technology specialist. He offers an insider’s view of the semiconductor shortage, explaining why small brands get short shrift and reshoring doesn’t work.

The strains of the Covid-19 pandemic revealed weaknesses that must be addressed—but changing these complex interacting systems is not easy.

Six steps corporate and business leaders need to take to successfully manage the supply chain challenge.

Gad Levanon, Conference Board labor-markets economist, talks about changes for employers and the outlook for jobs, wages and productivity as economies recover from the pandemic.

The culprits behind these and dozens of other production cuts by automakers around the world are supply chain constraints and shortages of semiconductor chips.

The pandemic laid bare weaknesses of dispersed lines and just-in-time delivery. Technology offers new tools for management as companies shift production post-pandemic.

Technology is opening up better financing opportunities for small and mid-sized companies all the way out to the end of the supply chain. 

These are not your grandfather's trade wars.

The continent's trade finance needs are expected to increase as the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area agreement begins.

Hari Janakiraman, head of Global Trade and Supply Chain Products and International TSC Products Solutions at ANZ, discusses how the pandemic has fueled innovation in trade finance.

Nils Behling, founder and CFO of Tradeteq, explains how technology can help make trade finance more investable.

India, Japan and Australia agree to forge alternative supply chains to circumvent China amid trade wars and a global pandemic.

A once-quiet corner of banking is harnessing new technologies to reduce paper, speed up supply chain finance and onboard new financing sources and solutions.

Banks are still wary when it comes to distributed ledgers, but appreciation for their practical benefits is growing.

As it celebrates a half-century of existence and its 49th annual gathering, the World Economic Forum seeks to push the private sector to do more to save the habitability of the planet.

Rising discontent among citizens around the world has led some to repudiate global integration. Will the world go back to raising walls between nations?

Trade finance is moving out of the paper age. But to fully leverage digitization, banks need to tear down data silos and standardize tools and procedures.