GTR News Brief Episode 9

Host Felix Thompson gives a breakdown of the major stories in trade and trade finance news this week.

The UK’s top sanctions regulator has issued landmark guidance for all companies involved in maritime trade, instructing them to pay closer attention to vessel behaviour, company structures and potentially forged documents.

According to a new report from Coface, the credit insurance provider, Central and Eastern Europe could benefit from a post-pandemic relocation of industrial supply chains.

In other news, British MPs have expressed relief that the government’s mysterious “Project Defend” will not involve localising supply chains.

Senior reporter John Basquill also provides an update from the Singapore commodity sector, after Hontop Energy became the latest oil trader to be embroiled in a fraud scandal.

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