International: Trade Finance Insight | Issue 9 | July 2024

In brief

Welcome to this edition of the Trade Finance Insight. In this edition, we lead with an article that examines supply chain financing in the US market, which is a form of financing that has become increasingly popular as customers and suppliers look to boost their liquidity and meet earnings expectations.


Contents

Secondly, we revisit the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a topic that we last covered in our April 2023 edition of this publication in an interview with Dr. George Elombi (Executive Vice President and Member of the Board of Afreximbank), and examine in particular the recently adopted Protocol on Investment that has been developed to both facilitate and protect investments in intra-African trade and will lead the way for the implementation of streamlined clear and transparent rules and mechanisms allowing financial and development finance institutions to more seamlessly support cross-border investment.

Our third article in this edition provides an overview of recent developments in transition finance from both a market and regulatory perspective by examining some of the risks and challenges facing both borrowers and lenders. It also considers what governments and regulators are doing and what more they could be doing to support the development of the transition finance market.

We are extremely pleased to be able to connect you with some excellent resources produced by our Energy & Infrastructure colleagues, including on the hydrogen market and global foreign investment in Lithium.

Our regular Sanctions and Export Controls update page features some interesting reads on, amongst other items, key sanctions takeaways from the recent G7 summit, updates on evolving sanctions against Russia and the series on navigating the impending global sanctions enforcement storm.

Finally, we are delighted to share some new awards that the team has won.

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