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Supply chain financing: Pathfinder Business
Trade finance
by Paul Gosling
The global ‘credit crunch’ has caused the financing of many commercial deals to fall through. Surprisingly, though, there is one financing activity that has not only resisted this trend, but has actually grown significantly – supply chain financing.
Supply chain financing provides a secure basis for a lender to finance transactions. Because the [...]
Free zones, free zones everywhere…. : Pathfinder Business
Free zones: Where they are located and how they differ
by Paul Gosling
In business, reward is often closely related to effort. And while the rewards for investing and doing business in a free zone can be substantial, so, too, is the effort involved in assessing which free zone is the best for a particular operation.
There [...]
Free economic zones: Pathfinder Business
Free Zones
by Paul Gosling
Dubai and the other Gulf states have their free zones. India increasingly relies on special economic zones. Mauritius, though, has its freeport. But whatever their local names and differing local tax regimes, the various types of free zones are unquestionably making an enormous impact in the globalised economy.
Without an agreed single definition [...]
Ex(changing) Times - Pathfinder Business
(Ex)Changing times
by Paul Gosling
Currency volatility is one of the most significant factors influencing the future profit of any business committed to overseas markets. Yet predicting currency fluctuations can seem impossible.
Take Kenya, a country regarded as one of the most stable and reliable in Africa. Suddenly in December the country’s presidential election was subject to allegations [...]
