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This episode of our podcast series with the Asian Development Bank’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program (TSCFP) takes a closer look at insurance and reinsurance. We shift the conversation toward risk and take a look at some of the partners helping banks reach markets that were once beyond their limits. To help us better understand this often complex world, we spoke with Irene Port, Client Rela...

Digital adoption in global trade is accelerating, and the industry is now confronting the three forces that determine whether new technology takes hold inside large organisations: compliance, speed to market and implementation. These pressures are reshaping how banks, corporates and logistics firms design the architecture that will carry the next era of digital trade. To explore how these elements...

With the next TF COP meeting approaching in London, the trade finance community is again being asked to confront the structural forces behind the persistent $2.5 trillion financing gap. Closing it will require not only capital but a redesigned architecture capable of supporting SMEs in the markets where access remains most constrained. To understand why the gap endures and what practical steps mus...

With COP 30 underway in Belém, governments, development institutions, and investors are now being asked to turn national climate targets into real and deployable investment plans. In practice, that requires a financial architecture capable of directing capital to the sectors and countries where it matters most.  To learn more about what needs to happen to meet global climate and development target...

The trade finance gap stands at around $2.5 trillion, according to the most recent biennial survey by the Asian Development Bank.  At a recent Trade Treasury Payments Breakfast Club, held on 15th October in London, panellists discussed the barriers to attracting more capital to trade finance and treating it as an asset class, as well as potential solutions to address the financing gap. 

Amid four packed days at Sibos 2025 in Frankfurt, experts from across the transaction banking space came together to discuss (among many other topics from a long agenda) how to make cross-border payments better. Today, trillions of dollars move across borders each day and global commerce has become more digital than ever, which means that implementation is becoming a central priority.  In the fina...

Economist Rebecca Harding’s new book The World at Economic War argues that globalisation has failed to deliver balanced prosperity — and that Western nations must treat economics as a matter of national security. From F-35 supply chain fragility to BRICS’ de-dollarisation push, Harding calls for new ministries of economic war, NATO-level economic coordination, and a shift from complacency to prepa...

Today, the global economy is surrounded by geopolitical uncertainty and shifting trade patterns. In this, UK Export Finance (UKEF) stands as a critical pillar supporting British exporters as they venture into global markets. UKEF primarily provides guarantees to financial institutions, enabling them to lend to businesses involved in international trade and export. In March 2025, the UK government...

Over breakfast, Kubiak reflected on the Commission’s legacy and outlined its present focus on the rules that underpin global trade, the principles shaping sustainable finance, the data that underwrites advocacy, and the final regulatory hurdles of Basel 3.1.  https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/podcast-running-the-distance-why-trade-finance-needs-smarter-regulation-and-broader-voices

Moderated by Merisa Lee Gimpel, founder of Digital Trade Works and a member of the TTP Advisory Council, the live podcast brought together Alex Fenechiu, co-founder and CRO of Finverity, and Chetan Talwar, supply chain finance lead at the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Trade & Supply Chain Finance Program (TSCFP).  https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/podcast-deep-tech-deep-tier-deep-impact...

Ahead of a flurry of trade events taking place in Singapore (including ADB, GTR, BAFT, and ITFA events), Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) hosted a fireside chat with Alexander Malaket, President of OPUS Advisory Services International and founding partner of PRISM Global Partners, and Craig Weeks, Senior Vice President for Trade at BAFT.  The conversation focused on the issues rising in importance fo...

TTP’s Trade Editor Carter Hoffman sat down with Carlos Kuriyama, Director of the Policy Support Unit at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat in Singapore, to discuss how APEC is shaping the future of cross-border trade. https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/podcast-apecs-agenda-digital-trade-resilient-supply-chains-and-inclusive-growth

🇿🇦 At the Global SME Ministerial Meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, TTP spoke with Aparna Soni (ADB) and Gregory Sampson (ITC) about a new initiative designed to reshape SME access to sustainable trade and finance.  https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/podcast-sme-sustainability-toolkit-trade-compliance-and-access-to-finance

While at the International Trade Centre’s (ITC) SME Ministerial in Johanessburg, South Africa, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) spoke with Matthew Wilson, the Ambassador of Barbados to the WTO, the United Nations, and other international organisations in Geneva, to learn more about the perspective of small island states and their place in large international institutions. https://tradetreasurypayment...

At the Lansdowne Club in London on 15 July 2025, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP), in collaboration with Sullivan, held our first-ever Breakfast Club. With the scent of coffee still hanging in the air, a select audience gathered to explore a deceptively simple question: Who can really grow supply chain finance, and how? https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/podcast-unlocking-scale-can-supply-chain-...

What do letters of credit, MRPA agreements, URTEPO rules and credit insurance all have in common? They’re all part of the trade finance toolkit, and in this special podcast edition, we break them down in plain English. 🎙️ Recorded live at the ITFA Educational Seminar at A&O Shearman in London, Trade Finance Terms Explained brings together short, punchy explainers from ITFA board members and ex...

Pamela Mar, Managing Director of the ICC DSI and a member of the TTP Editorial Board, joined a recent TTP podcast to discuss the vision. “Everyone agrees on the end goal,” she says. “Seamless data exchange, insights, and financing. But there’s still massive divergence on how to get there.”  https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/podcast-in-roadmaps-we-trust 

At the Grand Hyatt in Rio de Janeiro, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) Editor-in-Chief Deepesh Patel sat down with Franklin Nogueira, SVP, Regional Leader, Trade Credit, Global Clients Group, Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) at Marsh. 

Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief Deepesh Patel spoke with Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).   https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/video-in-conversation-with-odile-renaud-basso

To learn more about the structural forces shaping the current state of play in cross-border payments, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) Trade and Technology Editor Carter Hoffman spoke with Alan Koenigsberg, Founder of Koenigsberg Insights and TTP Editorial Board Member. https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/podcast-cross-border-payments-at-a-crossroad  

Fraud in international trade once involved swapping out cargo, misreporting shipments, or falsifying the port of call. For today’s breed of fraudster, however, the manipulation lies within the documents themselves.  According to data from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB), the number of suspicious documents identified by by its worldwide banking membership was 17.3% higher in Q1 2025 than it...

 At the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP) Day and Awards Ceremony in London, Trade Treasury Payments (TTP) Editor Deepsh Patel spoke with Tamara Khizanishvili from TBC Bank in Georgia and Arda Türerer from Burgan Bank in Türkiye. https://tradetreasurypayments.com/posts/podcast-regional-resilience-trade-finance-factoring-and-innovation-in-geo...

After a century-long hiatus, tariffs have returned to the centre of global trade discussions as the policy signals coming from Washington are louder than ever, but clarity remains elusive. As new tariffs roll out, companies are being forced to react on the fly. There are announcements without details. Policy shifts without warning. Each decision sets off a chain reaction through supply chains, fin...

In an interview with Trade Treasury Payments (TTP), Yuichiro Akita, President of the Berne Union, discussed how ECAs must adapt strategically to this new environment. Key priorities include supporting climate and clean-tech projects even in high-risk markets, shoring up supply chain resilience amid geopolitical fragmentation, deepening collaboration with development finance institutions (DFIs) thr...

To help unpack what this shift means for banks, regulators, and compliance teams today, Trade Treasury Payments’ (TTP) Carter Hoffman spoke with Deepa Sinha, SVP, Payments and Financial Crimes at BAFT and Elizabeth Rosenberg from the Wolfsberg Group.