Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle

Global Head Trade Finance Swiss Re

Marilyn is the Global Head of Trade Finance at Swiss Re, Corporate Solutions and the EMEA lead for Level Up, Swiss Re’s gender-equality network. Marilyn is also a Vice Chair of the ICC Banking Commission, a member of the ITFA insurance & insurtech committees, the ITFA Trade Finance Investment Ecosystem working group and on the advisory board of Tradeteq. 

Previously, Marilyn was the Global Head of Trade Finance at global insurer American International Group (AIG) having joined in 2015 to build AIG’s trade finance team and products. Marilyn previously worked as a lawyer in the international banking and finance practice for global law firm Hogan Lovells in London and New York. Marilyn was seconded in-house to Citibank’s trade transaction services EMEA team including commodity trade finance, supply chain finance and risk optimisation divisions. Prior to that, Marilyn worked in international consulting.

Awards: Women in Trade; Leader in Trade - Pandemic Support - Insurance Sector - AIG; Best trade credit and political risk insurance underwriter - AIG

Expertise In: trade finance, fintech

Languages: English

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Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle: A conversation about how we can #EmbraceEquity

Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle interviews two Swiss Re leaders and gender-equity allies to get their perspectives on #EmbraceEquity and inclusion.

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Share your #BreakTheBias recipe, as Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle dishes up hers on International Women’s Day 2022

It is International Women’s Day, and this year we rally to #BreakTheBias. Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle shares her the #BreakTheBias recipe.

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Celebrating Women in Trade 2021 – Why we’re Choosing to Challenge

#ChooseToChallenge. A catchy tagline, but what does it actually mean? TFG heard from AIG’s Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle on International Women’s Day

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Women in Trade 2021

Today is International Women’s Day 2021. We celebrate 50 outstanding women in global trade – read their stories here.

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Protecting trade finance as an asset class: An insurer’s outlook for 2020

We discussed with AIG some of the challenges and opportunities in the trade credit insurance sector. Enabling the much-needed reduction of the trade finance gap, and bringing in a wider array of investors while mitigating the risks of such expansion in the backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty will be a huge challenge in 2020. However, dealing with a broader collection of participants in the trade finance ecosystem in terms of jurisdictions, size of the borrower, types of assets and fintech entrants set us up for interesting times.

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Interview: AIG’s Global Head of Trade Finance, Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle on Blockchain in 2019

We spoke to Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle on Blockchain and Trade Finance, taking a look at some of the real world applications of blockchain in trade finance, specifically how AIG are utilising… read more →

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