Risk

The world is run on transactions. And the world of transactions is changing.

The field of cross-border payments is a vast and multi-faceted area, posing multiple challenges for banks, corporates, and businesses daily. With so many nuances within the sector, it can be difficult for market players to reach a unanimously beneficial solution.

To learn more about the treasury landscape Trade Finance Global’s (TFG) Annie Kovacevic sat down with Colleen Ostrowski (CO) at Sibos, Amsterdam 2022.  

Attending a talk at Sibos with Managing Director, US and Canada, Ben Arber and Gonzalo Perez Verdicchio, chapter lead API product management at SWIFT, Trade Finance Global (TFG) was able to learn more about the next steps for the market.

The latest issue of TFG’s Trade Finance Talks, ‘Time’s Ticking for Tech’, is out now!

Change can come at any point and can be catalysed by any manner of things. Trade has proven no exception to the rule.

At the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) 48th Annual International Trade and Forfaiting Conference in Porto, Trade Finance Global’s (TFG’s) Deepesh Patel sat down with Nelli Kocharyan, head of international relations and trade finance at Converse Bank, to discuss tactics to facilitate trade and development around the world.

At ITFA 2022, Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke to Lucio Lopez, managing partner of one of Brazil’s leading commercial law firms, about how businesses looking to expand into emerging and developing markets like Asia, Africa, or Latin America.

The central theme at this year’s Sibos conference in Amsterdam, the blue-chip gathering of the world’s top executives in banking and finance organised by SWIFT, focuses on how to best embrace digital transformation while mitigating risk and elevating sustainability.

Trade Finance Global (TFG) spoke with Jason Barrass, chief commercial officer at ARC Ratings to learn more about the role that credit rating agencies can play in this shift,

TFG’s Annie Kovacevic sat down with Gordon Cessford, president of Atradius US and regional head of Atradius in North America to understand more about political risks, emerging markets, and digitalisation.

Despite the vast benefits offered by the international trade and trade finance systems, there are instances when their powers are not used for good, as with trade-based money laundering.

In a world where roughly 15% of trade is protected by insurance, eyes are often on the trade credit insurance stage.
The credit political risk insurance (CPRI) industry helps lenders and corporates with lending capacity and regulatory capital risk. Credit insurance underpins global trade and finance, managing both concentration risk and country limits.

To understand how firms and instructions operate in the trade credit insurance industry and the role that technology may play in altering this landscape, TFG’s Deepesh Patel sat down with Gary Lowe, global head of the Global Credit Insurance Group at Standard Chartered, Jérôme Pezé, CEO at Tinubu, Janusz Władyczak, CEO at KUKE, the Polish export credit agency (ECA), and Richard Wulff, executive director at ICISA.

TFG spoke to two leaders in the fields of finance and technology about the changing role of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and hybrid models for streamlining and future-proofing corporate operational processes.

TFG joins forces with Tinubu on trade credit insurance virtual tradecast taking place on the 14th of September.