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Brilliant Borders: Kenya's Customs goes digital
A new app will save time and money for big businesses and small traders alike, as a longstanding Kenya-UK partnership further improves cross-border trade.
Yorkshire family brewery taps into new export opportunities with Government guarantee
UKEF support helps Wold Top brewery to expand its exports into new markets.
Bond Support Scheme
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UK and African business leaders arrive in Togo to create trade and investment deals
The event brings together delegations from ten African nations alongside leading UK companies and investors to advance partnerships that promote economic growth and jobs.
Countering sanctions evasion: guidance for freight and shipping
For freight forwarders, carriers, hauliers, customs intermediaries, postal and express operators, and other companies facilitating the movement of goods.
Emerging-market currency turmoil
Apparently triggered by the US Federal Bank's reduction in quantitive easing, this week turmoil has struck the global money markets
with some of the major emerging economies being particularly badly hit. Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and India are approaching the challenge in different ways, with the Turkish government for instance, more than doubling a key rate to 10%
The message for traders? Be cautious for the moment but opportunities are likely to arise for the fleet-of-foot soon enough once the dust beings to settle.