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…
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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
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…
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.
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