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Publications and Market Intelligence reports from ICC Banking Commission on Global trends in Trade Finance as well as analysis of risk in Trade Finance products.
The data in these reports are sourced from Banks around the world and 100s of Bank participate in these annual reports.
The ICC Trade Register draws on data from 26 trade finance and export finance banks (including submissions from today’s 22 member banks) – including more than 47 million global trade finance and export finance transactions with exposures in excess of $23 trillion. The ICC Trade Register presents a global view of the credit risk profiles of trade finance, supply chain finance and export finance transactions.
The ICC 2023 Trade Report analyses the latest trends in trade and presents an outlook for the 2023 trade landscape. It examines different forms of economic fragmentation in fields including trade, digital economy, debt, payment systems and suggests that fragmentation is accelerating. By providing an overview of fragmentation, the reports aims to help businesses and policymakers to understand and anticipate the risks associated with it.
In this publication, we cover the following: the current hypotheses on the objectives, principles, and definitions relative to sustainable trade and sustainable trade finance; the envisioned roadmap until and during implementation; an introduction to the methodology for assessing sustainable trade; and a view on how standards will be applied to enable this assessment.
The 2022 ICC Trade Register draws on data from 24 trade finance and export finance banks, which provides a representative set of over 42 million global trade finance and export finance transactions that amount to exposures in excess of $21 trillion. The combination of import letters of credit, export letters of credit, performance guarantees, and supply chain finance exposures in the Trade Register is equal to approximately 24% of global traditional trade finance flows and 9% of all global trade flows.
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) set up a Global Export Finance Committee Sustainability Working Group (ICC-SWG) in 2018, with the objective to grow the share of Sustainable Export Finance and showcase how the industry can contribute to global challenges. This whitepaper is an important output of the Working Group.
The 2021 ICC Trade Register draws on data from 22 trade finance and export finance banks, which provides a representative set of over 38 million global trade finance and export finance transactions that amount to exposures in excess of $19 trillion. The combination of import letters of credit, export letters of credit, performance guarantees, and supply chain finance exposures in the Trade Register is equal to approximately 28% of global traditional trade finance flows and 12% of all global trade flows.
The International Chamber of Commerce's (ICC) 11th annual Global Survey on Trade Finance reveals that banks are optimistic about the evolving nature of trade finance, though unsurprisingly expect various industry-wide challenges and disruption as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2019 report, produced with support from ICC’s project partners - The Boston Consulting Group and Global Credit Data - draws on information from 25 member banks to present a global view of the credit risk profiles of trade and export finance transactions.
Published annually, the ICC Banking Commission’s Global Survey report is an unparalleled look into the global trade finance industry. Based on exclusive information from over 250 banks in more than 90 countries, the Global Survey offers invaluable perspectives on challenges and opportunities in the trade finance industry from the practitioners themselves. The survey results are bolstered by contributions from an international array of leading voices on trade, including experts from the World Bank, Boston Consulting Group and the World Trade Organization.
The 2018 report, produced with support from ICC’s project partners - The Boston Consulting Group and Global Credit Data - draws on information from 22 member banks to present a global view of the credit risk profiles of trade and export finance transactions.
A comprehensive overview of the major regional and global trends in trade and trade finance, covering issues related to the trade finance gap, access to finance, export finance and supply chain finance – and how digitisation, new technologies blockchain and FinTech are reshaping the industry.
The 2017 report, produced with support from ICC’s project partners - The Boston Consulting Group and Global Credit Data - draws on information from 22 member banks to present a global view of the credit risk profiles of trade and export finance transactions.
A detailed statistical analysis of the regional and global trends in trade and trade finance, followed by a digest of the latest trends in the support of trade operations by export finance, export insurance, forfaiting, factoring, as well as multilateral development banks, and views on the growing relevance of digitisation developments and the importance of financing trade sustainably.
The 2016 report corroborates findings from previous years that Trade Finance products present banks with short average maturities, and little credit risk, with low default rates and loss rates.
A detailed statistical analysis of the regional and global trends in trade finance followed by a digest of the activities of multilateral development banks and export credit agencies in trade finance that charts their growing presence.
This report, produced by the ICC Banking Commission in collaboration with Oliver Wyman, presents a view of the risk profile of the Trade and Export Finance industry globally, with particular focus on credit-related default and loss experience.