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17 May
Member News

Tradewind Finance Enters Aviation Fuel Market with $15 Million Credit Facility for Leading Fuel Distributing Company in the Caribbean

(New York, New York) – Tradewind Finance, a global trade finance provider whose solutions enable businesses to optimize their cash flow and accelerate growth, has today announced $15 million in funding for one of the leading fuel distributing companies in the Caribbean. The distributor provides aviation fuel to some of the world’s largest airlines  and fuel service companies including American Airlines, United Airlines, and World Fuel Operations. “Aviation fuel supply is a very cash-intensive business, with fuel inventory consistently turning...

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16 May
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EIB Group to provide €70 billion for tech firms and innovators

EIB Group President Nadia Calviño explains how Europe can benefit from the Trump chaos, with the tech sector set to receive a massive financial boost. Interview by Carsten Volkery  (published by Handelsblatt) The European Investment Bank (EIB) is launching a new initiative to close Europe’s investment gap with the United States, aiming to provide €70 billion in startup funding by 2027. This will encourage private investors to get on board with projects, unlocking as much as €250 billion in investment for the European tech sector. “This is...

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16 May
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

Vulcan View: The latest EU developments 12 May – 16 May

European Commission launches strategic dialogues with defence and chemical industries On Monday, 12 May, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen initiated the first-ever strategic dialogues in Brussels with top representatives from Europe’s defence and chemical industries. These crucial meetings aimed to identify shared challenges and map out strategies to significantly enhance the competitiveness, resilience, and innovation of these vital sectors. Thus, safeguarding European security and economic prosperity in the current evolving global landscape. The Defence industry dialogue The first of these high-level...

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15 May
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

Transatlantic Trade Monitor: Facts You Need Now | What Supply Chains Should Expect with the New US and China Tariff Agreement

By Simon Kaye, President & CEO, Jaguar Freight Services The road to supply chain recovery from the trade actions taken by the new US administration in 2025 was always going to be long. Even with a 90-day reprieve for the bulk of China tariffs and talk of other country-specific “deals” being struck, lasting supply chain damage has been done. However, the recent (and perhaps temporary) reduction of tariffs on China is quickly setting some important things in motion, including speeding...

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15 May
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Wilson Sonsini | EU Commission Launches DSA Consultation on the Protection of Minors Online

On May 13, 2025, the European Commission (EC) published draft guidelines on the protection of minors online. The guidelines outline the proposed measures that the EC expects online platforms accessible to minors to take to protect minors’ privacy, safety, and security in line with requirements under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The guidelines come at a formative time in the development of the legal landscape relating to the use of online services by minors. In April 2025, Ofcom published its Protecting Children from...

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14 May
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Eversheds Sutherland | Commercially Connected Shorts – The Latest Updates in UK Commercial Law – 14 May 2025

Welcome to Commercially Connected shorts, our weekly bitesize newsletter summarising the latest updates in UK commercial law. This week we look at: UK-US and UK-India trade deals Eversheds Sutherland’s global supply chain guide UK Software Security Code of Practice launched Copyright and AI: latest developments in the UK UK-US and UK-India trade deals On 8 May 2025 the UK Prime Minister announced a “landmark economic deal” between the UK and the US. In a speech at Jaguar Land Rover and associated press release, it was...

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13 May
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IPTI | Property Tax in the News – May 2025

IPTI’s usual monthly newsletter - the “President’s Message” - contains, inter alia, some summarised news articles from around the world. This IPTI publication - “Property Tax in the News” - contains some of the more interesting news articles concerning property taxes in North America and Europe which is where many of our members have a particular interest. Links to these and more, similarly summarised, articles - from North America, Europe and around the globe - can be found in...

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13 May
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EIB | President Calviño at Empowering a Competitive Union: from InvestEU to the European Competitiveness Fund

EIB Group President Nadia Calviño delivered the opening statement at the second InvestEU high-level event, focusing on Empowering a Competitive Union: from InvestEU to the European Competitiveness Fund. I am very happy to join you today, dear executive vice-president, dear colleagues. I will also be brief and compliment the executive vice-president's excellent introduction because I think that as a key partner to the European Commission and the implementation of InvestEU, which is a true success story and this is the spoiler, that's basically what I wanted...

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12 May
Member News, Trade & TTIP Related

Transatlantic Trade Monitor: Facts You Need Now | Trump’s Tariffs: It’s Not The Economy, Stupid

By Nick Watson, Director, OCO Global The tariffs announced two weeks ago by President Trump kicked in last week and survived contact with reality in their original form for about twelve hours. Had they persisted – and of course they could yet be revived – the impact of this trade-weighted 21% tax on all US imports would have been profound, and profoundly negative, for both the US and the world economy. The markets breathed a huge sigh of relief, following the...

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09 May
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Vulcan View: The latest EU developments 5 May – 9 May

European Commission launches public consultation on U.S. countermeasures and prepares WTO challenge On Thursday, 8 May, the European Commission opened a four-week public consultation on a list of U.S. imports worth €95 billion subject to countermeasures, and on possible restrictions on certain EU exports to the US. This comes as the Commission is negotiating a mutually beneficial solution to U.S. tariffs—otherwise it will proceed both with targeted EU duties and a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute. The list covers U.S. industrial and agricultural goods totalling...

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