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 up to Deutsche Bank’s Vice Chairman of Trade Finance Commodities John (Mac) MacNamara …
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Sandra Hack reflects on stepping into John MacNamara’s commodity finance shoes at Deutsche Bank
Having taken over from John (Mac) MacNamara as Global Head of Structured Commodity Trade Finance on 1 April 2019, Sandra Hack had some pretty big shoes to fill. She joined Deutsche Bank in 1993 and held senior roles in Corporate and Investment Banking, Relationship Management and Credit Risk Management in…
Trade Finance TV on Location at TXF Global Commodity Finance Amsterdam 2019
Where did copper production finance, base oil exports, and structuring techniques all come together in two days? Find out in these edited highlights from speakers and delegates at TXF Amsterdam held 23 to 24 May 2019. First into the studio was KME’s Chief Financial Officer Pierpaolo di Fabio and Deutsche…
Market makeover – financing the new Ghana Kumasi Market
Fabio Camara, CEO of Contracta Engenharia Ltda and James Pumphrey, Head of Structured Trade and Export Finance UK at Deutsche Bank talk to Trade Finance TV about how they made the US$259m revamp of Ghana’s Kumasi Market happen (full interview) As we saw in our previous episode of Trade Finance…
Louis Taylor, CEO of UKEF on rebuilding Ghana’s Kumasi Market
Thanks to some transformational lending, Ghana’s Kumasi Market is undergoing a complete makeover, set to transform the Ashanti economy and all it touches. In the first of our next pair of videos, Trade Finance TV hears the story of a project involving three governments, a Brazilian origin contractor and Deutsche…
Trade finance in a climate of trade wars and nationalism
Two weeks into 2019, this very first episode on Trade Finance TV needed to set the macroeconomic trade scene before looking more closely at how recent changes had been shaping the supply and demand of trade finance
Trade finance for all? Industry approaches to widening reach
Daniel Schmand of Deutsche Bank and the ICC Banking Commission and Sean Edwards of the International Trade & Forfaiting Association and SMC talk to Trade Finance TV’s Clarissa Dann about trade finance access in a safe and sound environment, and facilitating trade flows
Trade growth drivers and the risks of derailment
Trade Finance TV interviews Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies about how rhetoric and politics is impacting trade growth, and the importance of ensuring that digital trade along with trade in services is also factored into growth assessments