Trade Finance Distribution Initiative Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The Trade Finance Distribution Initiative Podcast brings you news, insights, and interviews from around the trade finance world. We look at market trends, opportunities, and challenges when distributing or investing in trade finance.
In this episode, host Doris Kononowicz sits down with Christoph Gugelmann, CEO of Tradeteq, to explore how Tradeteq is revolutionising trade finance. With insights into trade receivables securitisation, asset-backed financing, and strategies for closing the trade finance gap, Christoph sheds light on what’s next for the industry. Plus, he previews Tradeteq’s live demo at the Trade Finance Investor Day, highlighting how the platform empowers institutional investors and supports SME liquidity.
The Trade Finance Investor Day 2024 will be holding on the 11th and 12th of November in London.
In this episode, host Doris Kononowicz interviews Amparo Garcia Flores, General Manager of Securitize Europe, to discuss how digital securities are transforming capital raising and investment opportunities. As a speaker at the 2024 Trade Finance Investor Day, Amparo offers a preview of her panel on tokenizing real-world assets and its groundbreaking potential for the trade finance ecosystem.
The Trade Finance Investor Day takes place on the 11th and 12th November at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane in London.
The conference will focus on the theme, 'unlocking asset-backed securitisation' and will feature conversations around how credit insurers and development banks fit into ABS structures.
A limited number of early bird tickets are now on sale: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/the-2024-trade-finance-investor-day
Nick Stainthorpe of Reed Smith discusses why the Investor Day is such a critical event and what he hopes to share when he takes to the stage this year.
The Trade Finance Investor Day takes place on the 10th and 11th November at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane in London.
The conference will focus on the theme, 'unlocking asset-backed securitisation' and will feature conversations around how credit insurers and development banks fit into ABS structures.
A limited number of early bird tickets are now on sale: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/the-2024-trade-finance-investor-day
Moritz Hill from Emerald Capital Group, discusses his excitement in joining this year's Investor Day. He discusses the work to be done in order to bring technology and assets closer to deliver better trade finance solutions.
The Trade Finance Investor Day takes place on the 10th and 11th November at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane in London.
The conference will focus on the theme, 'unlocking asset-backed securitisation' and will feature conversations around how credit insurers and development banks fit into ABS structures.
A limited number of early bird tickets are now on sale: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/the-2024-trade-finance-investor-day
Pranay Srinivasan from Manufactured, discusses what he's going to be speaking around at this year's Investor Day. We discuss how their technology offers security for trade finance assets and how SMB's are a crucial aspect of the industry.
The Trade Finance Investor Day takes place on the 10th and 11th November at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane in London.
The conference will focus on the theme, 'unlocking asset-backed securitisation' and will feature conversations around how credit insurers and development banks fit into ABS structures.
A limited number of early bird tickets are now on sale: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/the-2024-trade-finance-investor-day
Richard Wulff from ICISA, discusses joining this year's Investor Day. We discuss the use of AI with underwriters, the biggest challenges currently facing the credit insurance and surety sectors, and how is ICISA working to address them.
The Trade Finance Investor Day takes place on the 10th and 11th November at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane in London.
The conference will focus on the theme, 'unlocking asset-backed securitisation' and will feature conversations around how credit insurers and development banks fit into ABS structures.
A limited number of early bird tickets are now on sale: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/the-2024-trade-finance-investor-day
Billy Sebell from XDC Foundation, this year's platinum partner for the Investor day talks about the excitement around being part of the Investor Day and how it's creating more opportunities in the Trade Finance industry.
The Trade Finance Investor Day takes place on the 10th and 11th November at the Four Seasons Hotel on Park Lane in London.
The conference will focus on 'unlocking asset-backed securitisation'.
A limited number of early bird tickets are now on sale: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/the-2024-trade-finance-investor-day
In our latest podcast, we speak to Paul Landless who's Partner in Derivatives & Structured Products at Clifford Chance.
https://www.cliffordchance.com/
Clifford Chance is one of the world’s largest law firms, headquartered in London. It has world-class resources covering 32 major financial centres worldwide.
In this podcast, we discuss:
- How Clifford Chance helps new entrants in trade such as SME-focused non-bank lenders.
- Whether institutional investors such pensions funds and family offices rely on Clifford Chance legal guidance in trade and working capital finance.
- The next big legal developments in trade finance.
- Whether he sees securitisation acting as a useful bridge between banking and capital markets.
- How tokenisation can support the industry.
- And, as co-head of the firm's global Tech Group, Paul tells us what this world looks like at the moment, and what’s exciting him?
In our latest podcast, we speak to Idriss Al Rifai, the co-founder and CEO of Flow48. https://www.flow48.com/
Flow 48 is a FinTech in the Gulf Region and South Africa. It offers SME financing enabling growth by transforming future revenues into up-front capital through both invoice-based financing and revenue-based financing.
Idriss has a very colourful background... he used to be a professional basketball player and then joined the Special Forces. Then he did an MBA which kicked-off his love of startups.
In this episode, we discuss, amongst other things, the role technology plays in his company and how AI is changing things.
In our latest podcast, we speak to Steve Bendit from Securitize. https://securitize.io/
Securitize is a platform enabling regulation-compliant tokenisation of security. It also delivers end-to-end tokenisation of any fund, company, or asset. Unlocking alternative assets with a digital platform for issuing and trading digital asset securities.
In this month’s episode, we discuss: * the tokenisation of real-world assets,
* a recent product launch for the Securitize team,
* use cases for adopting digital assets,
* how US regulators are adapting to this new technology,
* what are ‘Security Token Offerings’ (STOs),
* and what lies on the horizon.
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In our latest podcast, Bob Ejodame, Vice President of Capital Markets at INX, tells us about his lightbulb moment when he first heard about what INX was doing.
In this month’s episode, we discover everything you need to know about INX which is a US regulated hub for cryptocurrencies & security tokens for trading and investing in digital assets.
https://www.inx.co/
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In our latest podcast we catch up with Emerald Capital, an alternative lender specialising in trade finance solutions. Its focus is on short-term financing on a revolving basis, priding themselves on making quick and flexible lending decisions to help grow their clients’ businesses.
In this month’s episode, Director, Moritz Hill, discusses the evolution of the company and how it grew out of the pandemic, AI applications, and why Emerald Capital decided to sponsor the Trade Finance Investor Day.
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The TFDi’s latest podcast is out and this month it’s our chance to speak to Timothée Bloch, the Co-Founder at A&T Alpha Credit.
A&T Alpha credit is based in Geneva and specialises in structured financing for SMEs, with a core expertise in structuring private debt products aimed at financing working capital needs.
The company’s aim, ‘to facilitate the direct allocation of liquidity towards real economy financing - when traditional lenders no longer fulfil their mission’.
Join the TFDi: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com
In our latest podcast we speak to one of the latest members of the TFDi, Atlendis.
Alexis Masseron is the CEO of Atlendis which enables users to lend digital assets to real-world businesses on-chain, filling the gap that traditional finance has not been able to cover. Leveraging blockchain technology and open banking.
Join the TFDi: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com
In our latest podcast we speak to one of the latest members of the TFDi, Almila Arikan Sarbanoglu. She is Director, Working Capital - Receivables Finance at Kyriba.
Kyriba is a leader in cloud treasury and finance solutions, delivering mission-critical capabilities for cash and risk management, payments and working capital solutions.
More than 2,000 clients worldwide rely on Kyriba to see, protect and grow their liquidity.
Join the TFDi: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/
Our latest podcast is now live where we’ve been discussing the impact of the Electronic Trade Documents Act, amongst other things.
Richard Fossett is the CEO and Founder of TradeRiver. The company is one of the most recent to become a member of the TFDi.
TradeRiver is an alternative finance provider that has delivered more than £380m of Working Capital to SMEs in the UK... processing more than 7,000 individual client payments and has more than 1000 suppliers registered in 45 countries.
We even talk about Richard’s fascinating previous career of running hotels in the Middle East.
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Our latest guest on the TFDi podcast is Ernesto Vila, the CEO of AP Trade Finance.
APTF is a leading provider of innovative trade finance solutions for SMEs targeting those which are looking to expand their business operations on an international scale.
The company’s become the latest member of the TFDi.
Ernesto discusses APTF’s use of technology, blockchain and AI.
Join the TFDi: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/
We’ve been lucky enough to catch up with the CEO of Vayana TradeXchange for our latest TFDi podcast.
Kaylan Basu heads up the Mumbai-based operation which connects exporters, importers and financiers globally through a digital platform for trade finance.
It was also great to meet him in person at the Trade Finance Investor Day.
It’s as Vanaya TradeXchange has just announced a new partnership with another TFDi member, Tradeteq. In this video clip from the podcast, Kaylan tells us how excited he is about the possibilities this will bring.
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Vayana TradeXchange: https://vayanatradexchange.com/
Cláudia Dos Santos, Director, Trade and Working Capital Sales, Lloyds Bank Commercial banking, is one of the 23 high-profile names appearing at The Grove Hotel in less than two weeks.
Her session is titled: ‘The Electronic Trade Documents Act, as seen by a distribution expert’.
There are now just a few tickets left for our big event, just outside London, on the 19th and 20th October. Click on ‘buy tickets’ if you want to secure one of the last seats in the room: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
Professor Sarah Green, one of the high-profile speakers at the Trade Finance Investor Day, has been giving us a preview of her talk with digital trade policies high on the conference’s agenda.
Sarah, Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law from the Law Commission of England and Wales, has been heavily involved in the creation of the Electronic Trade Documents Act, the new law that means paper documentation will no longer be needed for international transactions.
All 23 speakers have now been announced for the Investor Day which takes place at the Grove Hotel, just outside London, on the 19th and 20th October 2023.
More than 100 attendees are now registered, make sure you get one of the final seats in the room – click on ‘buy tickets’ here: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
Sean Edwards, says that Digital Negotiable Instruments will definitely be on his list of talking points at the Trade Finance Investor Day.
Sean, the Chairman of ITFA, will be one of the key speakers at next month’s event, with a presentation on ITFA’s roadmap for institutional investors.
The Trade Finance Investor Day has more than 20 speakers lined-up for the 19th and 20th October at the Grove Golf and Country Club, just outside London.
There are a limited number of tickets available, and time is running out. Book your place today: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
The TFDi’s CEO, André Casterman, gives an update on how preparations for next month’s big event are going… the Trade Finance Investor Day takes place on the 19th and 20th October at the Grove Hotel, just outside London.
The conference next month will focus on alternative lenders and institutional investors, analysing breakthroughs in both origination and distribution spaces. More than 20 speakers have already been announced.
Tickets are still available. Get yours today: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
Mercore Group is the latest organisation to join the Trade Finance Distribution Initiative. Anthony Wadsworth-Hill, COO of Mercore Group, has been speaking to our podcast about how he’s looking forward to the Trade Finance Investor Day.
Mercore is a non-bank financial institution specialising in the provision of trade finance to SMEs and customers with trade flows involving developing/emerging markets.
Anthony will be speaking at next month’s big event, the Trade Finance Investor Day. He’ll be appearing on the Originator Panel on the 19th and 20th October at the Grove Golf and Spa resort, just outside London.
For tickets, location, and a list of all the other speakers on the day, head to our event website: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
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In our latest mini podcast, Deutsche Bank’s Global Head of Trade Financing and Lending tells us why he’s looking forward to our Investor Day conference.
Oliver Resovac will be speaking at the Trade Finance Investor Day at the Grove Hotel, just outside London, on the 19th and 20th October.
Oliver oversees more than five thousand employees globally, approximately 1.8billion Euros of revenues and 110 billion Euros of assets.
He’ll be appearing on our Originator Panel – alongside Dylan Martin (Teybridge) Capital, Anthony Wadsworth-Hill (Mercore).
A limited number tickets are on sale now, get yours before they’re all gone: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
Dylan Martin, CEO of Teybridge Capital Europe will be speaking as a part of our Originator Panel at Trade Finance Investor Day.
In our two-day event just outside London, we’ll reveal the latest fintech innovations, banking-fintech partnerships and the rise of trade finance as an investable asset class.
Don't miss this five-star experience at The Grove Golf and Country Club, Hertfordshire on the 19th and 20th October 2023. Register for your ticket now:
https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
Chris Southworth, Secretary General, ICC United Kingdom, has been speaking to us about the Electronic Trade Documents Act (ETDA) ahead of his appearance at our Trade Finance Investor Day.
Chris is a leading international expert on creating modern digital trade ecosystems, and is also an independent adviser to the UK government on the digitisation of trade.
Over the last few years he’s been heavily involved with getting ETDA passed into law. Last month that finally happened and it’s now promising to transform the way international trade is carried out.
Chris will be joining us at The Grove Golf and Country Club on the 19th and 20th of October to give us his insights on ‘the legal revolution in trade financing and digital assets’.
Don’t miss out. Register for your tickets today: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
Teybridge Capital is the TFDi’s 70th member. Dylan Martin, its European CEO, speaks to us about how the company differentiates itself in the global trade space.
Teybridge Capital is a non-bank originator specialising in supply chain finance as well as structured trade and commodity finance, amongst other services.
Dylan is also one of the many names to be speaking at our Trade Finance Investor Day. He’s on our Originator Panel at the event at the Grove golf and country club, just outside London, on the 19th and 20th October.
For tickets, location, and a list of all the other speakers on the day, head to our event website: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
Salman Khan, a Senior Portfolio manager at Santander Alternative Investments, tells us why this asset class is so important.
Salman specialises in Global Trade Finance investments and is one of the many names to be speaking at the Trade Finance Investor Day.
He will be appearing on the Investor Panel at the conference in Hertfordshire to discuss ‘The Perfect Deal’.
Speaking to us from Madrid, he says the event will be an unmissable networking opportunity.
Tickets are now on sale for the two-day event at the five-star Grove golf and spa resort, just outside London, on the 19th and 20th October.
Tickets, the full list of speakers, dates and location can be found here: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
André Casterman, the CEO of the TFDi, highlights what makes October’s Trade Finance Investor Day ‘the event with a difference’. André says the two-day conference, at The Grove Golf and Country Club, will bring ‘new players onto the stage’.
There will be two major panels, a keynote, Power Pitch sessions, testimonials, and of course the opportunity for networking at the five-star resort in Hertfordshire on October 19th and 20th.
Don’t miss out, register for your ticket now: https://www.tradefinancedistribution.com/events/trade-finance-investor-day-2023
Episode 27 is an exciting conversation with Kountable's Founder and CEO, Chris Hale. In this episode we discuss how Kountable enables SME's to deliver sustainable development and the areas they are focusing on as a business within the sector.
Episode 26 is a solidly-packed chat with ANZ's Head of Trade and Supply Chain Product Solutions and Head of Trade Portfolio Management, Damian Kwok, as he talks about the dire need for liquidity in the market, ANZ's form of digitalisation through a DLT and their DNA as a trade finance bank.
Episode 25 of the TFD Initiative Podcast features the founder and CEO of vabble.io Pablo Terpolilli discussing Vabble's automation and legalisation of manual supply chain finance processes to offer better conditions for liquidity to flow.
TFD Initiative is delighted to speak with the CEO of ARC Ratings, Oliver Howard. Our conversation revolves around working with clients in trade finance and the nuanced processes of their ratings methodologies.
Episode 23 is a special feature from a Member of the House of Lords, Lord Chris Holmes of Richmond, who is a fierce advocate for digital technologies, fintechs and blockchain. We hear about his passion for sustainable trade finance methods like the ETD and a more inclusive finance market.
We're kicking off 2023 with a brand new podcast from Surecomp's SVP Strategy, Digitisation and Business Development, Enno-Burghard Weitzel, as we delve into Surecomp's new business solution RIVO and why client needs form a core part of designing their technology.
Our last podcast for 2022 features TFD Initiative's Chief executive André Casterman as he sits down with Doris Kononowicz to discuss how this year has seen a grown to the TFDi community, and some key milestones that were achieved.
TFDi Podcast episode 20 features the Commissioner for Commercial and Common Law at the Law Commission of England and Wales, Sarah Green, who shares first hand insight into how and why a bill such as the ETD was born, and the journey through the great thinking that constitutes what new digital asset laws should look like.
Episode 19 features CEO and Founder of SupplierPlus, Kaspar Kagu, as he sits down with Doris Kononowicz to discuss supply chain finance processes and the geographical edge SupplierPlus has, being a technology-enabled solution.
On this episode, we host TFDi founding member, co-founder and CFO at Tradeteq, Nils Behling, as we discuss the new TRADA Token on the XDC Network and how banks and FIs can connect, access and distribute illiquid assets through Tradeteq's innovative technology solution.
On this episode, our guest is Mark Hickey, Head of Working Capital Finance at Pemberton. We delve into the evolution of bank markets, technology and Pemberton’s growing portfolio in corporate credit.
On this episode, our guest is George Nijborg, Senior Portfolio Manager at Aegon Asset Management. We discuss the use of trade finance in offering products with attractive risk return profile.
In this episode, our guest is Mark Abrams, MD & Head of Trade and Receivables Finance at Trade Finance Global. We discuss TFG's position in the trade finance industry.
In this episode, our guest is John-Martin Ndawula, Associate VP, Financial Institutions and Trade Finance at Africa Finance Corporation. He dissects the role of AFC in providing instrumental infrastructure through trade finance distribution in Africa.
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 funding can bring to smaller originators.
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.