About
Who we are
tradefinance.news is built by Tamara, a trade finance practitioner with experience at leading commodity trading houses including Trafigura. After years on the operational side — structuring LCs, chasing documents, fighting discrepancy notices at 11pm — she noticed something: the trade finance media landscape was broken.
Too many newsletters regurgitate press releases. Too many “insights” are thinly veiled sponsored content. Too few publications speak to the people who actually do the work: the ops teams, the trade finance officers, the documentary credit specialists who know that a misplaced comma can hold up $2 million in cargo.
tradefinance.news exists to fix that.
What we cover
We write about trade finance from the practitioner's perspective. That means:
- Deals and defaults — Who is lending, who is not, and why the market is moving the way it is.
- Documentary credit war stories — Real LC rejections, dissected with UCP 600 references. Our The Discrepancy series is built on stories from the front lines.
- Regulation and compliance — Basel IV impact, sanctions screening, ESG requirements — what actually changes your workflow.
- Technology — Electronic bills of lading, blockchain platforms, AI in trade finance. We cut through the hype and tell you what works.
Editorial policy
tradefinance.news is editorially independent. We do not accept sponsored content. We do not run advertorials. When we cover a company or product, it is because we think our readers need to know about it, not because someone paid us.
We have opinions, and we state them clearly. We believe that is more honest — and more useful — than pretending to be neutral on topics where neutrality serves no one.
If we get something wrong, we correct it publicly and promptly. Trust is earned one issue at a time.
Get in touch
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