In mid-January 2018, Mr. Dietmar Gajdos, director of our Chamber of Commerce and Dr. Franco Merckling, the aspiring future president, were invited by the Hon. Carmelo Abela, the Maltese Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion and the Maltese non-resident Ambassador to Switzerland H.E. Saviour F. Borg for an exchange of views at the Hotel Bellevue Palace in Bern. By the way, Mr Abela and Mr Borg had just concluded a meeting with the recently elected Swiss head of the D

Reuss Private Group is a private asset management company and has a trading license in Switzerland and Germany. The company complies to MIFID I & II standards, and is regulated by the Swiss financial authority (FINMA). Reuss Private AG serves and supports private clients as well as institutional clients with their investment – and wealth planning needs. It’s client base is quite broad, including local as well as international clients, also covering African countries and the N

Banks have been issuing letters of credit since early Egypt, according to some researchers, but the nature of trade finance has come a long way since then. In fact, it has come a long way just over the past 20 years. Ask Carmel Borg, who heads Bank of Valletta’s Trade Finance Centre. “In 1993, when the Centre was set up to centralise the business and build up expertise, we were the only Maltese bank doing trade finance. Admittedly most transactions were plain vanilla deals an