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…
Interviews
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…
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…
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 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