This report explores the feasibility and benefits of establishing a capacity exchange or hub of capacity exchanges in the UK. The research team interviewed professionals from a variety of sectors, surveyed existing multilateral reciprocal trade exchanges and conducted desk research into the concepts of capacity, trade, credit and money, including alternative forms of [...]
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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has evaluated the impact of Basel II and Basel III on trade finance in the context of low income countries. As a result, it adopted two technical changes to the Basel regulatory capital adequacy framework related to the treatment of trade finance that will help promote trade [...] Posted on June 5th, 2011
Trade finance will play a crucial role in President Barack Obama’s goal of doubling US exports by 2015. Almost 90 percent of exports depend on trade finance in some form—direct credit, credit insurance, or loan guarantees. Even though official export credit agencies (ECAs), including the US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank), play a small [...] Posted on March 27th, 2011
The Wolfsberg Group has undertaken, in the context of its 2009 paper on Trade Finance, work on Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit in order to complete the coverage of the major products that Banks offer to customers involved in international trade. The 2009 paper was reviewed to ensure that it was still [...] Posted on January 31st, 2011
Global merchandise trade sharply declined in late 2008 and early 2009, and some press and financial market reports assigned a large role for the decline to trade finance. However, the available evidence suggests that shocks to trade finance were not the major factor in the decline in trade. Surveys of commercial banks by [...] 3 pages
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