Global Trade Review (GTR)

What Global Trade Review (GTR) does

Global Trade Review (GTR), legally Exporta Publishing and Events Limited, is a privately held, founder-owned B2B media and events company headquartered in London and founded in 2002. The company publishes daily news across five regional desks (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, MENA) and two verticals (Digital Trade, Sustainability), reaches 109+ countries online and in print, and produces the quarterly GTR Magazine distributed to 90+ countries, the GTR+ special-edition publications, a directory of 2,000+ contacts, and weekly eNewsletters to 40,000+ recipients. Its core technology is a digital publishing and events platform — gtreview.com as the primary CMS-style destination, an event management and registration system, and GTR Connect as a members-only networking layer — augmented by CPD-accredited online training through GTR Training.

GTR monetizes through four streams: subscriptions (starting at £30/month with a 7-day trial), delegate passes and sponsorship for 18+ annual conferences including flagship GTR Asia in Singapore and GTR MENA in Dubai (each 1,300+ participants), advertising and sponsored content across print, digital, video, and social channels (1.4 million views/year, 150,000+ social followers), and professional training. Event passes are tiered into Corporate (importers, exporters, traders, manufacturers) and Standard (service providers, bankers, brokers, insurers) tiers, evidencing price discrimination across customer segments. Adjacent businesses include GTR Ventures — an investment platform backing trade-focused fintechs from London, Singapore and Hong Kong — Studio GTR for creative services, and the GTR Leaders in Trade / Best Deals / MEA awards portfolio. In January 2026 GTR acquired the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFDi) from Silver Birch Group, bringing its Trade Finance Investor Day into GTR's events calendar and adding an advisory board seat for Silver Birch's CEO.

Customer segmentation is horizontal across trade finance professionals, corporates/exporters, and fintech/technology providers, with the primary persona being trade finance bankers, lawyers, insurers and corporate treasury teams. No enterprise anchor accounts or revenue split are disclosed, and the business model combines low-ticket recurring subscriptions with mid-ticket event and sponsorship revenue. The company is GDPR- and UK GDPR-compliant, UK private limited (company number 4407327), operates 11–50 employees, and continues to expand regionally with 2026 events added in Riyadh and Cairo alongside established hubs in Singapore, Dubai, Geneva, East Africa and London.

Name

Global Trade Review (GTR)

Legal name

Exporta Publishing and Events Limited

Website

https://gtreview.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2002

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Global Trade Review (GTR) is a London-based B2B media and events company founded in 2002 that publishes news, a quarterly magazine, a directory, and runs 18+ annual conferences plus training and awards for the global trade, commodity, export and supply-chain finance industry.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscriptions: GTR generates revenue through subscription-based access to publications including GTR Magazine (quarterly, distributed to over 90 countries), GTR+ special-edition publications, and premium digital content. Subscriptions provide access to daily news, analysis, and industry insights for trade finance professionals.
2. Events and Conferences: GTR hosts over 18 events annually worldwide, including flagship conferences in Asia, MENA, Africa, and Europe. Revenue is generated through delegate passes (Corporate passes for importers/exporters/traders and Standard passes for service providers), sponsorship packages, and exhibition space.
3. Advertising and Sponsorship: GTR offers advertising opportunities across print publications, digital platforms (website and eNewsletters), and multimedia (branded videos, podcasts, interviews). The company provides contributed content options including thought leadership advertorials, roundtables, and industry perspectives. Total reach of 1.4 million views per year and 150,000+ social media followers.
4. Training Services: GTR Training provides online, expert-led virtual learning sessions for trade and export finance professionals. These CPD-accredited courses cover trade finance fundamentals, compliance, ESG, digital innovation, and risk management.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

GTR is a publishing and events company that produces daily online news, a quarterly trade finance magazine (GTR Magazine), special-edition publications (GTR+), and a 2,000+ contact industry directory, complemented by 18+ annual international conferences and CPD-accredited online training courses. Its core revenue is generated from subscriptions to its publications, delegate passes and sponsorships for its events, advertising and sponsored content across print and digital, and paid professional training for trade and export finance practitioners.

Product overview

Global Trade Review (GTR) is a publishing and events company offering a portfolio of news, publications, conferences, and professional development services for the global trade and trade finance industry. The core offering consists of daily and quarterly publications (GTR News, GTR Magazine, GTR+ special editions) alongside a directory of over 2,000 industry contacts. GTR operates flagship conferences (GTR Asia, GTR MENA) plus 18+ events annually, supplemented by GTR Training (CPD-accredited online courses), GTR Awards, and GTR Connect (member networking platform). The company also includes Studio GTR (creative services) and GTR Ventures (investment platform for trade fintechs). Recently, GTR acquired the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFDi), adding the Trade Finance Investor Day to its events portfolio.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• GTR Magazine: World's leading international trade finance magazine, published quarterly and distributed to over 90 countries
• GTR+
• GTR Directory
• GTR Ventures
• GTR Training
• GTR Young Professionals in Trade Finance
• GTR Women in Trade Finance
• GTR Awards
• Studio GTR
• GTR Connect

Products and services

• GTR Magazine World's leading international trade finance magazine, published quarterly and distributed to over 90 countries. Features analysis, deal coverage, and commentary from the market's primary financial institutions and businesses involved in global trade, available via subscription.
• GTR+ Range of special-edition publications providing additional data and analysis on sectors and regions covered in the main GTR Magazine, including regional and sector-specific editions.
• GTR Directory Industry directory connecting professionals across trade, commodities, export, supply chain, and fintech markets, featuring over 2,000 key contacts and reaching 35,000+ readers across more than 100 countries.
• GTR Events Leading global conferences for the trade, export, supply chain finance, and fintech communities, including flagship events GTR Asia (Singapore) and GTR MENA (Dubai) each welcoming over 1,300 participants, plus 18+ events annually worldwide with Corporate and Standard delegate pass tiers.
• GTR Training Online, expert-led virtual learning for trade and export finance professionals, offering CPD-accredited courses on trade finance fundamentals, compliance, ESG, digital innovation, and risk management.
• GTR eNewsletters Weekly GTR eNews delivering the latest industry news to over 40,000 recipients, complemented by regional event eNewsletters providing updates from GTR conferences.
• Studio GTR Creative services offering design solutions for clients across industries including oil & gas, legal, events, and not-for-profit sectors.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 109 countries reached online and in print
• +4 more outcomes

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Trade Finance Distribution Initiative (TFDi)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 January 2026GTR acquired TFDi, a collaborative industry effort to establish trade finance as an investable asset class for capital market firms. TFDi's flagship event is its annual Trade Finance Investor Day held in London, which will become part of GTR's events calendar from 2026 onward. TFDi was previously owned by Silver Birch Group.
• Silver Birch GroupminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrevious owner of TFDi, Silver Birch Group will continue as an active member and executive sponsor of the initiative following the acquisition, with Silver Birch CEO Sean Hanafin joining the GTR Advisory Board.
• Mary's MealsminorOthersGlobal charity providing life-changing school meals to some of the world's poorest children. GTR has proudly supported Mary’s Meals for over six years, raising a total of £66,244 to date. GTR staff and sponsors participated in Cape Town Cycle Tour raising £17,500.
• The Nick Kilhams FoundationminorOthersFoundation aims to destigmatise mental health challenges amongst the London insurance market and raise funds to provide mental health support. GTR's official partner for GTR Charity Awards Dinner 2025, raising £13,606.
• Shelter ThemminorOthersCharity empowering vulnerable children in Rwanda by supporting essential needs and providing access to education. GTR's official charity partner for GTR East Africa 2025, generating £2,221.15. In 2024, raised £24,886.21 at GTR Charity Awards Dinner for school construction.
• How Many ElephantsminorOthersWomen-led charity dedicated to promoting awareness of elephant conservation across Africa. GTR's official charity partner at GTR Africa 2025, collecting £1,500 donation funding seven beehives in Beehive Fence Project.
• SVATANYAminorOthersInitiative dedicated to empowering marginalised women in India by equipping them with skills to achieve financial independence. GTR has supported SVATANYA for 3 years, raising £1,000 at GTR India 2025.
• Women of WellbeingminorOthersCharity supporting women's health initiatives. Supported GTR Women in Trade Finance conference alongside GTR Africa 2025 event in London.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• GlobalCapital (formerly EuroWeek): GlobalCapital covers primary debt and securitization markets and serves a similar institutional-finance buyer base as GTR. While not a trade-finance specialist, it is a comparable subscription + events B2B media business covering adjacent capital-markets verticals.
• Euromoney (LSEG Business): Euromoney is a long-established global B2B financial media and events business that publishes trade-related content (including Trade Finance Magazine) and runs conferences in adjacent finance verticals. It is broader than GTR but competes for sponsorship dollars in trade and capital-markets events.
• Project Finance International (PFI): PFI is the long-standing B2B media brand for project and infrastructure finance, with a similar subscription, awards, and conference model to GTR. It serves an overlapping buy-side audience of banks, DFIs, and ECAs that intersect with GTR's export and trade-finance readers.
• Lloyd's List: Lloyd's List is a legacy B2B media brand covering maritime trade, shipping, and insurance — adjacent to GTR's coverage of trade finance, commodity trade, and supply-chain risk. It operates a similar subscription + events + awards model and shares a London-headquartered trade-publishing heritage.
• International Financing Review (IFR): IFR is the leading B2B publication for global capital markets and deals. While its core is debt and equity issuance rather than trade finance, it shares GTR's institutional banker audience, sponsorships, and awards-based model, and competes for time-share of the same senior finance professionals.

Regional players

• Air Cargo News: Air Cargo News is a B2B media brand covering air freight and logistics trade flows. It is adjacent rather than directly competitive, but its B2B subscription + conference model and shared coverage of supply-chain and trade-logistics themes make it a thematic comparable for GTR.
• Marine Money: Marine Money is a maritime-focused B2B media and events business covering ship finance. It overlaps with GTR at the intersection of trade finance and shipping, and competes for sponsorship from commodity-trade and shipping financiers attending GTR's commodities and trade events.

Others

• Asset Finance International (publisher): Asset Finance International is a B2B publication covering asset-based finance, an adjacent area to trade and supply-chain finance. It uses a similar niche-vertical news + events model and addresses similar banking and corporate buyer personas in the export/working-capital ecosystem.

Direct peers

• TXF (Trade and Export Finance): TXF is the closest direct competitor to GTR, running trade-finance-focused events, daily news, and data products aimed at the same banker, corporate treasurer, and trade-finance specialist buyer base. It competes for delegate and sponsorship spend in the same conferences and publishes overlapping editorial coverage.
• Trade Finance Global (TFG): TFG is a digital-first trade finance news, events, and matchmaking platform that competes directly with GTR for new issuance, deal announcement flow, and trade-finance events. It targets the same buyers (banks, corporates, fintechs) with a more technology-led content and data model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/gtr_events
• YouTubeyoutube.com/gtreview
• Facebookfacebook.com/GlobalTradeReview
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/exporta
• Instagraminstagram.com/gtreview

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A1 record

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Global Trade Review (GTR)