Trade Finance Gap news and trends

Why FinTech Won’t Be Enough To Tackle The Trade Finance Gap
B2B Payments // June 01, 2020

Estimates of a $1.5 trillion trade finance gap were alarming when they surfaced several years ago, but the figure also presented an enticing opportunity for FinTechs at a time when the market was ripe for banking disruption and digitization. In recent years, FinTech innovators have...

Interviews & Exclusives
Closing Latin America’s $350B SMB Trade-Finance Gap

September 29, 2020
The cash flow challenges for small businesses have been in place for a while, in Latin America since well before the pandemic took root. And in an interview with PYMNTS, Jacob Shoihet, co-founder and CEO of the online financing platform Marco Financial,  said the problem is particularly acute for exporters. “In Latin America, the infrastructure […]