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…
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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…
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…
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