TXF Risky Business Podcast

TXF and Coriolis Technologies’ country risk index digs into strategic trends in trade weaponization in Asia. Here, Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies sees Asia in transition, China’s weapons trade increasing and upticks in arms imports in Australia, Japan and Indonesia. This is the fourth in the series of seven insights.

TXF and Coreolis Technologies’ country risk index investigates the trends in trade weaponization in Russia and Eurasia. Here, Russia’s ‘hybrid war’ trade strategy and it’s marriage of convenience with China’s trade tactics are investigated by Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coreolis Technologies. This is the second in the series of seven insights.

TXF and Coreolis Technologies’ country risk index digs deep into the strategic trends in militarisation of trade and in this overview, Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coreolis Technologies sees weaponization of trade in unexpected areas. This is the first in the series of six insights.

Mark Schulz, director of risk, claims & collections and executive board member at Euler Hermes, explains how the German ECA has embraced the digital revolution, expanded its presence in emerging markets and increased its product offerings. And there’s much more still in the pipeline.

SMEs are the engine behind Africa’s trade growth, but funding is scarce. Kofi Adomakoh, head of bank guarantees and special finance at Afreximbank, outlines the bank’s mantra, Impact 2021: Africa Transformed, and explains how improving access to trade finance for SMEs is key to promoting intra-African trade.

TXF spoke with Rachael Anstock, head of UK credit & political risks at Zurich, to discuss the insurer’s product innovations, and to find out whether the private market is competing with ECAs for business, rather than collaborating.

Citi extended its participation in the GTLP this summer almost a decade after its inception. TXF spoke with John Ahearn about the importance of the programme.

In a time of geopolitical uncertainty, how are private insurance underwriters planning ahead for the future and what challenges and opportunities are key risk hot spots presenting to them? This episode brings you an excerpt from the opening ‘Country Risk Review’ panel discussion at the recent TXF Political Risk & Trade Credit Insurance conference. With a focus on Turkey, Russia, Angola, Zambia...

Trade finance is becoming an asset class and there’s an evolving regulatory landscape with Basel IV and PRA changes. Marilyn Blattner-Hoyle, head of supply chain and trade finance at AIG, talks to TXF about the growing pressures for lenders to use the private insurance.

Amid potential changes to PRA regulations, IFRS accounting standards, and sovereign risk exposures, the trade credit insurance landscape will have to evolve. Gary Lowe, head of the credit insurance desk at Standard Chartered, gives his take on these regulatory constraints and what buying trade credit insurance in a post-Brexit world will look like.  

When it takes the same amount of time to underwrite the risks of a power station as a letter of credit, something had to give. Chris Hall, Senior Underwriter, Liberty Specialty Markets discusses Toredo, a web-based platform which moves trade credit insurance underwriting into the digital era.

Robert Frank, global head for insurance and risk mitigation at Gerald Metals, spoke to TXF about the CPRI market, the digitisation myth and how having multiple brokers keeps them on their toes.

Amber Case is author of ‘Calm Technology’, a book about designing for your attention and designing better technology that works with and not against you, that makes good use of your attention. Katharine Morton sits back and chats with the ‘cyborg anthropologist’ about the wider applications of calm technology for finance and trade. Don’t race to digitise.

Getting banks, regulators and investors to understand trade funds better is key to trade evolving as an investible asset class. Aidan Applegarth, owner and managing director of Bankingwise, a trade services consultancy is perturbed by the lack of support from the banks and the fact that the market has potential to grow as long as it’s not viewed as one-size-fits-all.

The Risky Business podcast analysis country risk around the globe. For more information on our unique ratings, go to  www.txfnews.com/countryrisk .   Post-election, what will Erdogan’s continued policies to consolidate power mean in terms of international investment opportunities in Turkey? Should we expect a wait and see policy for the coming months? What does the election mean for Turkey, and fo...

The Risky Business podcast analysis country risk around the globe. For more information on our unique ratings, go to  www.txfnews.com/countryrisk .   In this episode, Dan interviews Rebecca on all things Asia-Pacific, from Belt and Road, to terrorist risks in Philippines and Indonesia, to elections in Pakistan.

The Risky Business podcast analysis country risk around the globe. For more information on our unique ratings, go to  www.txfnews.com/countryrisk .   Following the conclusion of the 2018 World Cup, Rebecca examines trends behind the scenes in Russia, the continued troubles in Ukraine, tensions in Eurasia, and the long term impact sanctions have (and haven’t) had on Russian trade flows.    Meanwhil...

The Risky Business podcast analysis country risk around the globe. For more information on our unique ratings, go to  www.txfnews.com/countryrisk .   In this episode we look at trends in risk across North and South America, including the war on drugs in Mexico, Trump’s tariffs, anti-corruption movements in Brazil, and the impact all of the above is having on financed investment in the region.

The Risky Business podcast analysis country risk around the globe. For more information on our unique ratings, go to  www.txfnews.com/countryrisk .   This episode covers the Middle East, with tensions over Yemen, a changing role for Israel, trade flows through Oman, and short term challenges in Egypt.

The Risky Business podcast analysis country risk around the globe. For more information on our unique ratings, go to  www.txfnews.com/countryrisk .   With a special focus on Africa, this episode looks at recent political developments in South Africa, stability and anti-corruption movements across the continent, the role of China, and the latest risk ratings for Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Kenya. 

The Risky Business podcast analysis country risk around the globe. For more information on our unique ratings, go to www.txfnews.com/countryrisk .   In the first episode, Dan and Rebecca explore the methodology behind the ratings, anomalies that exist, and some little known nuggets of information you won’t get from other country risk ratings, including a unique look at Denmark

The US’s most successful export at the moment seems to be populism, says Rebecca Harding, CEO of Coriolis Technologies. TXF and Coreolis Technologies’ country risk index investigates the trends in trade weaponization in the Americas. Here, Canada and Mexico export arms, Central America imports populism. This is the third in the series of seven insights.

Peter Mulroy, Secretary General of FCI spoke to Katharine Morton at the ICC banking commission annual meeting in Miami about how trust is helping factoring move beyond the ‘wild west syndrome’ and how transparency is vital for building trust in the future of reverse factoring.

Trade finance business is booming at the Asian Development Bank. Katharine Morton spoke to Steven Beck, the ADB’s head of trade and supply chain finance, at the ICC Banking Commission annual meeting in Miami about the reasons underpinning the growth and whether derisking is having an impact.

In the first of this series of Risky Business podcasts Coriolis Technologies CEO Rebecca Harding talks to TXF’s Katharine Morton about where we are now with trade weaponization and the effect that trade wars are having on the key power relationships and physical supply chains globally, with technology at the forefront.