Trade Financing GAP for Small-Mid Enterprises
As governments around the world look to small and mid-size enterprises as engines of growth, trade and job creation, a significant challenge stands in the way: hundreds of billions of dollars of pent-up demand for trade finance. This financing can be used as export...
Combating Trade Based Money Laundering
The FATF has defined “Money Laundering” as the processing of criminal proceeds to disguise their origin in order to legitimize the illegally-gained proceeds; and “Trade Based Money Laundering” (TBML)as the process of disguising the proceeds of crime and moving value...
#BeBoldforChanges – International Women’s Day
On March 8th we celebrate International Women’s Day. It’s a celebration of the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for fast-tracking gender equality – and this is according to the organization that...
M&A Transactions in Global E-Commerce Sector: Q1-2017
The global M&A transactions in the first quarter of 2017 in the e-commerce sector, has crossed $1 billion with top e-commerce and brick & mortar players such as Amazon, Alibaba and Walmart acquiring regional and niche e-commerce startups. Description of Deal...