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Trade Finance Market Outlook 2012

03 January 2012

The annual Trade Finance Market Outlook including our contact directory and events calendar.

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Welcome to Trade Finance Market Outlook 2012, sponsored by SNR Denton. As 2011 winds down the industry is left in a precarious situation. Many institutions find themselves having to totally re-examine their priorities and what constitutes their core business.

Impending Basel III regulations, while somewhat improved, still treat trade finance unfairly, and the impact of the Eurozone crisis weighs heavily on both the region’s banks, and far beyond with clients in Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America. Growth in China and India has slowed, and recoveries in western markets look under threat or anaemic at best.

We should not forget though that trade financiers are a resourceful bunch, and the crisis of 2008/09 showed that the...


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