An Introduction to the different types of Letters of Credit (LCs) used in trade finance. Read TFG's 2025 Letters of Credit Ultimate Guide.

About the conference Trade Finance Global is excited to announce our first international conference: ‘TFG Geneva: Challenges and Opportunities within Trade & Commodities’, which will take place on 6 ...

[UPDATED2025] TFG's SWIFT Messaging Types (MT) Guide, discussing the 2021 proposed changes to MT760, MT767, MT759 and MT798 on demand, accessory guarantees as well as standby letters of credit. The ...

[UPDATED 2025] A Standby Letter of Credit (SBLC / SLOC) is seen as a guarantee that is provided to a potential buyer or contractor. An SBLC is payable when called upon by the beneficiary and may be ...

The UCP 600 is a set of ICC standards regulating Letters of Credit. View our UPDATED 2025 Guide on the 39 articles of UCP 600.

What is a bill of lading? The bill of lading (BoL), often referred to as BL or B/L, is used when shipping goods from supplier to buyer.

Welcome to TFG’s invoice finance hub. Find out how our team can help your company unlock working capital from domestic and international invoices, on both a recourse and non-recourse basis.

Demurrage is the failure to abide by the rules agreed to in a charter agreement, such as to load or discharge the ship by an agreed time.

Mark heads up the trade finance offering at TFG where his team focuses on bringing in alternative structured finance to international trading companies. Welcome to the TFG Trade Finance hub. Find out ...

Bringing negotiable instruments into the digital world Digitising global trade has been a steadfast endeavour since before the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but pandemic-induced closures and remote ...

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[UPDATED 2025] Risk participation is a type of a lending transaction in which a lender, bank or financial institution transfers its interest in a loan or exposure, or risk associated with that loan to ...