Solving the African Import-Export Problem
Trade finance in Africa is like finance everywhere else, except for one detail. There are two major legs of any export: from production...
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- Jun 2, 2021
#SupplyChainFinance for Global Warming Solutions
And why not? The problems associated with climate disruption can wreak more widespread havoc globally than Covid-19, which is itself a...
- Aug 9, 2020
#PPE, #SupplyChainFinance, and the #NitrileGlove Scramble
It takes a long time to build a plant that makes nitrile gloves. There are many more hoops to go through than going into the three-ply...
- Apr 27, 2019
Paperwork: the Sand in the Gears of Commerce
Every day we see #businessfinance problems to solve in the developed and developing worlds. Most are solvable, and in the process help us...
- Nov 16, 2018
When you can't get your bank to open a letter of credit for your imports
We hear about clients who have bank credit lines and are continually hitting their bank limits. Bank lines for SME's are a mixed blessing...
- Oct 9, 2018
The Canary in the Coal Stocks and Fossil Fuel Divestment: The Portfolio You Save May Be Your Own
“Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.” — John Lennon, Strawberry Fields Forever We just came across this...
- Oct 2, 2018
How spiders terrorized a woman with a creepy midnight nursery rhyme
It’s the stuff nightmares are made of: For months on end, a woman living in Ipswich, England, was awoken nightly by the far-off strains...
- Sep 25, 2018
Talking Turkey - The man who communicates with gobblers
Joe Hutto, who is sixty-one, has spent most of his waking life looking at wild turkeys. He may have looked at more of them than any other...
- Sep 11, 2018
If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef
With one dietary change, the U.S. could almost meet greenhouse-gas emission goals. Ecoanxiety is an emerging condition. Named in 2011,...
- Sep 6, 2018
A glimpse of what it will be like to play sports in a hotter world
When Roger Federer played at the US Open this week, his tennis match took place in temperatures that exceeded 30°C (86°F). He lost—the...