Trade & Supply Chain

By Thomas Clouse COMPANIES AUTOMOBILES Chery International After years of torrid growth, China’s automobile market slowed significantly this year, with light vehicle sales up only 5% year-on-year in the first eight months, according to figures from J.D. Power. Chery International, ...

COLLABORATION GROWS   Moderated by Anita Hawser   Companies and their banks are working together to develop finance solutions encompassing the entire supply chain.   Anita Hawser: How are current market conditions impacting the development of Supply Chain Finance (SCF)? ...

GO WITH GOLD   By Michael Shari   Runaway gold prices are empowering mining companies to finance themselves—and forcing banks to innovate, providing opportunities for investors that are willing to take on more complex risk.   Kinross Gold has sworn off ...

IN WITH THE OLD   By Paula L. Green   Thanks to new technology that improves information flow, traditional trade finance tools such as forfaiting are now being used more frequently as part of a broader supply chain finance program.   ...

BECOMING LIQUID   By Denise Bedell   Investor interest in trade receivables securitization is growing, and companies are taking note as they search for alternative liquidity sources.   Atallah, Deutsche Bank: Volatile credit markets are forcing companies to use new ...

REBUILDING CONFIDENCE   By Anita Hawser   Global trade was affected over the course of 2011 by major disruptions such as the US sovereign rating downgrade, the Japanese earthquake and political upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa. Not ...

WEATHERING THE STORM   Following the 2008 financial crisis, trade finance was a term often uttered in the upper echelons of global political circles. Treasury secretaries bandied the term around at G20 meetings, stressing the importance of keeping the wheels ...

GREEN PROFITS   By Denise Bedell   Companies have long been working on creating sustainable internal operations. With growing recognition of the symbiotic buyer-supplier relationship, they are now moving those efforts into their supply chains—and reducing costs in the process. ...

ANNUAL SURVEY: SUPPORTING ROLE   By Anita Hawser   Banks and nonbanks are driving steady growth in both the volume and the sophistication of supply chain finance.   The global financial crisis provided a “light bulb” moment for many buyers ...

Global Finance names the World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2011 NEW YORK, May 17, 2011 – Global Finance magazine has released its fourth annual rankings for the World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers to be published in an exclusive ...

COVER STORY: THE NEW OIL SHOCK   By Michael Shari   Triggered by street battles in OPEC member states and exacerbated by news of radiation leaking from Japanese nuclear reactors, the oil shock threatens to derail the world’s economic recovery. ...

TRADE FORECAST: CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF PROTECTIONISM   By Gordon Platt   Bankers are optimistic that financing will be available to support projected growth in world trade, but regulatory change and currency wars have them on edge.   Trade ...

MILESTONES: UNITED STATES/CHINA   By Gordon Platt   Tired: Trade spat rolls on The fallout from the World Trade Organization's ruling last month that the US was within its rights in imposing import tariffs of up to 35% on Chinese ...

Global Finance names the World's Best Trade Finance Banks 2011 NEW YORK, December 17, 2010 – Global Finance magazine (GFmag.com) has named the "Best Trade Finance Banks" by region and country in an exclusive survey to be published in the ...

MILESTONES: GLOBAL   By Gordon Platt   Comic relief: G20 leaders laugh despite deficit deadlock At last month's Seoul summit of the G20—or the G19+1, as one senior Asian central bank official recently dubbed it—the US was isolated from the ...

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL   By Anita Hawser   Nivison: Trade is different When the new Basel III capital adequacy proposals were announced back in the summer, some members of the banking community breathed a sigh of relief as the timeline for ...

RALLY CAUSES CONCERN AMONG EXPORTERS   By Jonathan Gregson   After a year in the doldrums, the euro's rise has caught many by surprise.   Europe currently looks like the unintended fall guy amidst the beggar-thy-neighbor round of central bank ...

GATHERING MOMENTUM   Moderated by Joseph Giarraputo   At a roundtable in London, Global Finance brought together leading figures in the supply chain finance field to discuss key developments in the industry.       Tom Dunn Orbian Thomas Dunn ...

TRAIL BLAZERS   By Gordon Platt   Trade between emerging market countries is driving a campaign for a new currency order.   The Bric countries—Brazil, Russia, India and China—have a combined gross domestic product that is greater than that of ...