Expert Commentaries
How to find the truth in a world littered with fake news?
While casually browsing Facebook this Sunday afternoon, I came upon yet another post by one of my contacts who was sharing a link to an article from a reputable publication. ...
How to find the truth in a world littered with fake news?
How to find the truth in a world littered with fake news?
|Thomas Smith
TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN
I went to the University of the West Indies Mona Campus in Jamaica in 1968 on a Serve and Learn scheme with the UK Overseas Development AdminIstration. The British invaded...
TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN
TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN
|Export Academy Faculty
TRADING ILLUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA
My experience of international trade in West Africa began as a European Commission Economic Advisor in Togo in 1976. I worked on STABEX, to stabilize Togolese export earnings. Brussels...
TRADING ILLUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA
TRADING ILLUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA
|Export Academy Faculty
TRADING HOPES WITH ASIA
Despite lack of trade negotiation practice during half a century, while the European Commission did the job instead of UK officials, the UK now fields a team led by an...
TRADING HOPES WITH ASIA
TRADING HOPES WITH ASIA
|Export Academy Faculty
BRITISH AID – COMING OR GOING ?
The British Department for International Development, (DFID), is now merged with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Its budget this year will be cut by £2.9 billion, index-linked to...
BRITISH AID – COMING OR GOING ?
BRITISH AID – COMING OR GOING ?
|Export Academy Faculty
DCW Interview with Trade Finance Expert Pradeep Taneja
After nearly 40 years serving the banking industry, including 38 years in Trade Finance alone at various levels in India, UAE, and Bahrain, Pradeep Taneja retired from banking on 30...
DCW Interview with Trade Finance Expert Pradeep Taneja
DCW Interview with Trade Finance Expert Pradeep Taneja
|Export Academy Faculty
High lending rates drive investments away
GHANA should introduce measures that will help halve the cost of borrowing or risk losing investments in agriculture and agroprocessing to neighbouring countries, the Team Leader of the West Africa...
High lending rates drive investments away
High lending rates drive investments away
|Export Academy Faculty
Incoterms 2020 - Beware of inaccurate blogs with 'expert advice'
Incoterms 2020 is here! Sadly, I was too late to save this poor trader from Incoterms 2020 Misinformation! As an event which happens now once every 10 years the launch...
Incoterms 2020 - Beware of inaccurate blogs with 'expert advice'
Incoterms 2020 - Beware of inaccurate blogs with 'expert advice'
|Thomas Smith
Guarantees versus standby letters of credit
Approaches to standby letters of credit (standbys) and guarantees differ in different parts of the world. People perceive things differently, and that has an impact on how practice evolves. Take...
Guarantees versus standby letters of credit
Guarantees versus standby letters of credit
|Export Academy Faculty
THE ISSUE OF DISCREPANCIES AND THE ROLE OF THE DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
If you ask a banker, an exporter, an international cargo insurance specialist, a carrier or a freight forwarder, what the biggest problem is when dealing with documentary credits, you will...
THE ISSUE OF DISCREPANCIES AND THE ROLE OF THE DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
THE ISSUE OF DISCREPANCIES AND THE ROLE OF THE DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
|Export Academy Faculty
How to find the truth in a world littered with fake news?
While casually browsing Facebook this Sunday afternoon, I came upon yet another post by one of my contacts who was sharing a link to an article from a reputable publication. ...
How to find the truth in a world littered with fake news?
How to find the truth in a world littered with fake news?
|Thomas Smith
TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN
I went to the University of the West Indies Mona Campus in Jamaica in 1968 on a Serve and Learn scheme with the UK Overseas Development AdminIstration. The British invaded...
TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN
TRADING IN WONDERLAND IN THE CARIBBEAN
|Export Academy Faculty
TRADING ILLUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA
My experience of international trade in West Africa began as a European Commission Economic Advisor in Togo in 1976. I worked on STABEX, to stabilize Togolese export earnings. Brussels...
TRADING ILLUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA
TRADING ILLUSIONS IN WEST AFRICA
|Export Academy Faculty
TRADING HOPES WITH ASIA
Despite lack of trade negotiation practice during half a century, while the European Commission did the job instead of UK officials, the UK now fields a team led by an...
TRADING HOPES WITH ASIA
TRADING HOPES WITH ASIA
|Export Academy Faculty
BRITISH AID – COMING OR GOING ?
The British Department for International Development, (DFID), is now merged with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Its budget this year will be cut by £2.9 billion, index-linked to...
BRITISH AID – COMING OR GOING ?
BRITISH AID – COMING OR GOING ?
|Export Academy Faculty
DCW Interview with Trade Finance Expert Pradeep Taneja
After nearly 40 years serving the banking industry, including 38 years in Trade Finance alone at various levels in India, UAE, and Bahrain, Pradeep Taneja retired from banking on 30...
DCW Interview with Trade Finance Expert Pradeep Taneja
DCW Interview with Trade Finance Expert Pradeep Taneja
|Export Academy Faculty
High lending rates drive investments away
GHANA should introduce measures that will help halve the cost of borrowing or risk losing investments in agriculture and agroprocessing to neighbouring countries, the Team Leader of the West Africa...
High lending rates drive investments away
High lending rates drive investments away
|Export Academy Faculty
Incoterms 2020 - Beware of inaccurate blogs with 'expert advice'
Incoterms 2020 is here! Sadly, I was too late to save this poor trader from Incoterms 2020 Misinformation! As an event which happens now once every 10 years the launch...
Incoterms 2020 - Beware of inaccurate blogs with 'expert advice'
Incoterms 2020 - Beware of inaccurate blogs with 'expert advice'
|Thomas Smith
Guarantees versus standby letters of credit
Approaches to standby letters of credit (standbys) and guarantees differ in different parts of the world. People perceive things differently, and that has an impact on how practice evolves. Take...
Guarantees versus standby letters of credit
Guarantees versus standby letters of credit
|Export Academy Faculty
THE ISSUE OF DISCREPANCIES AND THE ROLE OF THE DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
If you ask a banker, an exporter, an international cargo insurance specialist, a carrier or a freight forwarder, what the biggest problem is when dealing with documentary credits, you will...
THE ISSUE OF DISCREPANCIES AND THE ROLE OF THE DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
THE ISSUE OF DISCREPANCIES AND THE ROLE OF THE DOCUMENTARY CREDIT
|Export Academy Faculty