WCR Best Trade Finance Bank 2026
World Commerce Review is pleased to announce that Euro Exim Bank Limited has been awarded the WCR Best Trade Finance Bank 2026 for the seventh year running.
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Strengthening operational resilience for the age of AI
Europe faces unprecedented geopolitical and economic challenges, including high dependencies on external providers for energy, technology, security, and financial infrastructure. Frank Elderson argues reducing these dependencies is essential for safeguarding the European way of life
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A plan to revitalise the WTO
The WTO is experiencing a serious crisis arising from tensions that are internal to the global trading system. Ignacio García Bercero identifies four critical areas for WTO reform to reinforce the rules-based trading system
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A way out via the Strait of Hormuz
The US–Iran relationship appears to be at its lowest point in decades. Simon Johnson and Amir Kermani describe how the twin blockades of the Strait of Hormuz create the possibility of a time-consistent agreement linking the nuclear issue, sanctions relief, and uninterrupted navigation
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From World War Trade to domino regionalism
Donald Trump’s 2025 tariffs were disruptive in the deepest sense. Richard Baldwin argues that while the old trading order was destroyed, a growing share of global commerce is drawn into existing regional trade arrangements, producing an emergent global trading order
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The EU is exporting carbon pricing through trade
Can trade policy drive global climate action? Maximilian Fuchs and Camille Reverdy write that early experience of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism shows trade can spread carbon pricing, but lower-income partners need support
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Building a new Western century
For the last year there has been turbulence in the US-EU partnership. Marco Rubio argues that the new alliance should focus on advancing mutual interests and new frontiers, unshackling ingenuity, creativity, and the dynamic spirit to build a new Western century
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Defining the new strategic direction
The EU needs a new trade policy strategy. Ignacio García Bercero writes that a turbulent January exposed EU trade strengths and fissures, demanding rapid anti-coercion action and smarter leverage of trade deals
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The end of the world order
The great powers are trashing the global rules-based order. Mark Carney argues that middle powers can maintain some sovereignty and control over their own destinies in a new era of superpower rivalries by working together to fight for their values
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Addressing Europe’s services dependencies
The geopolitical order keeps shifting. Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Giancarlo Corsetti, Giulia Sestieri and Rolf Strauch discuss the economic security issues raised by services trade in the EU and call for a common industrial policy for services to boost competitiveness
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