Trade Finance Distribution Initiative Podcast

The TFDi Podcast resumes with guest Martin Opfermann, Lead Portfolio Manager at Allianz Global Investors. He shares market trends and new ways to distribute finance. 

For the first episode of the new year, Boris Jaquet, Global Head of Distribution at Deutsche Bank, looks back at the past 12 months of trade finance distribution and shares his insights on recent trends.

In this episode, Adam Clark, Underwriter at Liberty Specialty Markets, tells us what digitisation can bring to trade finance distribution and trade finance in general.

In this episode, Morgan Terigi, CEO and co-founder of Incomlend and Swajit Rath, CEO of Incomlend Capital, tell us about the company's ambitious plans to make trade assets tradable. 

In this episode we receive Ian Duffy, CEO and Founder of Accelerated Payments, a Dublin-based fintech that finances invoices for SMEs in Ireland, the UK, the US and Canada. Accelerated Payments just recently financed the purchase of a client invoice using a tokenised trade finance instrument on the Tradeteq network, and Ian is here today to tell us how it went, and what advantages token-based fund...

In this episode we receive Atul Khekade, Co-Founder of XinFin Hybrid Blockchain. XinFin Network is a hybrid blockchain platform that recently teamed up with Tradeteq to tokenise portfolios of trade assets. Atul tells us how exactly tokenisation works and why this is such a positive development for trade finance distribution.

In this episode, we receive Alexander Malaket, the President of OPUS Advisory International, to talk to us about why previous attempts to make trade finance an investable asset class haven’t necessarily had the expected results, and how we can make sure we avoid repeating past mistakes.

In this episode, we receive Arnout Buschenhenke and Igor Curic, Intrapreneurs at ABN AMRO and Project Leads on Invoice Market, one of the ventures developed within the bank’s Group Innovation. Invoice Market is a marketplace for the origination and distribution of invoices, and Arnout and Igor are here to tell us all about this exciting innovation.

In this episode, we receive Suresh Hegde, Head of Structured Private Debt at NN Investment Partners or NNIP, which just recently added a new trade finance fund to its portfolio. Suresh talks us through the logic for this decision and why trade finance is a key part of the ESG finance ecosystem.

In this episode, Simon Bessant, Director at The Texel Group, a London-based credit and political risk insurance broker, talks to us about how the insurance sector fits into the expansion and digitisation of trade finance distribution.

In this episode, Walter Gontarek, co-founder and CEO of Channel Capital Advisors, and Daouii Abouchere, who oversees the firm’s ESG finance activities, tell us about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on trade finance and credit markets, and how the growing popularity of ESG investing can influence trade finance distribution.

In this episode, Bertrand de Cominges, Global Head of Trade Finance Investments at Santander Asset Management, joins us to discuss the process of making trade finance assets investible, the need for education about distribution, and Seneca's wise words on time.

André Casterman, Chair, Fintech Committee, ITFA joins us for the inaugural TFDi Podcast. This is our first episode and we talk about the road ahead, banks adopting the originate and distribute model, and why Tesla is more than just a car company.