To kick start the first Trade Finance TV show of the new decade, we welcome Luke Templeman, Analyst, Thematic Research at Deutsche Bank and the return of Dr Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies to discuss what climate change-related issues came out of the World Economic Annual Meeting Davos 2020…
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Trade Finance TV provides a deep dive into liquidity risk, credit risk, economics, flow trends and regulation. We interview the world's leading experts in trade finance covering importers, exporters and financiers, from coffee in Kenya to copper cathode in China
Supporting young trade finance professionals
Trade Finance TV welcomes into the studio Duarte Pedreira, who in addition to his day job in trade finance at Crown Agents Bank, heads the Emerging Leaders programme at the International Trade and Forfaiting Association. He is joined by two actual ITFA Emerging Leaders, Aycan Ertuğrul of the Berne Union…
Accessing trade finance expertise
Pouya Jafari, is an Associate at Channel Capital Advisers, and ITFA Emerging Leader and on his LinkedIn profile describes himself as “a curious and driven professional with a deep interest in global trade, investment management, and geopolitics”. He joins us on Trade Finance TV to share his journey as a…
Choosing a trade finance career
Now Head of Trade Finance at Crown Agents’ Bank, Duarte Pedreira launched what was then the Young Professionals’ Initiative at the International Trade & Forfaiting Association (ITFA) three years ago in 2016. This has grown into ITFA’s Emerging Leaders Initiative, chaired by Pedreira, who had come into the trade finance…
Trade Finance Professional Education
As David Morrish, Relationship Director of the London Institute of Banking and Finance reflects his 50 years in trade finance, he talks to Trade Finance TV about why there is such a strong demand for trade finance and transaction banking professional education. It’s all down to a new normal of…
Toughening Up the Certificate in International Trade and Finance
When the London Institute of Banking and Finance (LIBF) launched the Certificate in International Trade and Finance (CITF), this was a game changer in trade finance learning. You didn’t have to be a specialist in trade finance documentation to get a qualification – this was something for all participates in…
A Framework for Trade Finance Digitalisation
On 10 July 2019, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) released electronic supplements to the existing Uniform Rules for Collections (URC 522) and Practice for Documentary Credits (UCP 600) rules. But despite all these encouraging developments in standards and rules, why is it taking so long for trade participants to…
Fighting illicit financial flows
According to Global Financial Integrity’s update, “Illicit Financial Flows to and from 148 Developing Countries 2006−2015’ developing economies saw more in illicit trade related payments leaving their counties than the value of the aid budgets flowing into them. Robert Parson, a partner in the law firm Clyde & Co specialising…
Reserve-based lending in the North Sea
Deutsche Bank’s Director of Structured Commodity Finance, Yann Ropers and EMEA Regional Head of Distribution, Boris Jaquet talk to Trade Finance TV about the appetite for reserve-based lending oil borrowing from new E&P companies based in the North Sea. Larger utilities such as Engie have divested their assets because of…
How SWIFT is supporting the digitalisation of trade finance
While the payments journey has enjoyed widespread digitalisation, with SWIFT gpi playing a major part in this transition, trade finance is a tougher nut to crack, but it is getting there. Trade Finance TV talks to SWIFT’s Head of Trade & Supply Chain, Huny Garg, and Senior Product Manager, Bridget…
Ma Zhi Qing, founder of Shandong Qingyuan explains how he transformed a tractor business into an international oil refinery
Were it not for China’s economic reforms, Ma Zhi Qing would still be running his farm in Linzi, but thanks to a light bulb moment on a tractor in the 1980s, he leads a multi-billion dollar petrochemical corporate. He talks to Trade Finance TV about his remarkable journey from farm…
Three musketeers of structured commodity trade finance reflect on how trade gets paid
Three “musketeers” of commodity and structured commodity finance who could count more than a century’s experience between them stepped up into the studio and agreed that trade gets paid if you play the structuring cards right. Listen to Deutsche Bank’s Vice Chairman of Trade Finance Commodities John (Mac) MacNamara, who…